Shakhter Karagandy manager, Viktor Kumykov, spoke to the media yesterday, and again this morning, ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League play-off first leg game against Celtic.
“Some of the players who played on Friday night will not make the starting line-up against Celtic but we have a limited squad so I cannot rotate too much.
“Celtic have a high calibre across their squad of around 20 players, they can rotate players without dropping standards. Whoever we face will be difficult.
“Their most dangerous players are the striker Samaras and wingers Forrest and Commons.
“We will attack but we will keep things tight at the back. The most important thing about a home game is not to concede. Celtic are a quality team but we are going to stand up to them with our best game. We have our plans.
“I said a few times that it’s going to be tough game for us. We are new in the Champions League, Celtic have lots of experience in games in Europe, they even won this tournament. But this does not mean that we are going to be taking a beating. We will do our best, will give our full strength to achieve a good result.
“We watched Celtic in last season’s Champions League, and against Liverpool. They are stronger than us but football is a game where the strongest don’t always win. They play a physical game, it will be hard playing against them.
“Unfortunately Toktar Schangyalyschbai and Mikhail Lunin will both miss the game through injury.
“We would like a full stadium, the crowd is going to be an important factor for us.
“We have achieved our main target, Europa League qualification, so the pressure is off us. We can take a risk in our play.”
Captain, Andrey Finonchenko, added, “Our dreams started with the games against BATE, few imagined we could beat them. The results against BATE and Skernderbeu have given us faith. We will do our best tomorrow.”
Stories of the ritualistic slaughter of a ram inside the Astana Arena this morning are true. No medieval stone unturned.
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CQN really is a totally depressing place
for REAL Celtic fans these days……it’s wee
James Forrest turn for a bleeching the day….nae
doubt some on here will be happy if we don’t
make the CL group stage……..that way they can
come on here and blame anyone and everyone.
welivedthroughtoughertimesCSC.
glendaly
Thought Jamesie did a better at that against England, especially in the first half. Maybe a wee bit coaching from Gordon Strachan will do the trick! He improved Aiden as a player.
weefra…
Sometimes these hallowed pages need a wee injection of humour….
Masty-I feel your pain.:)
…..n ah don’t want tae hear aboot Nigerian international….. Mabossa Ritchie…..
……..or German skier Fanny Schmeller…..
Celtic Mac
If JF turns out to be as good defensively as Aiden did, that will do for me.
I think there is a tendency among flair, attacking players to see themselves as individual geniuses rather than grafting, team players. If James is to be truly great he will have to add this to his game IMO.
few crackers there mate.
tonydonnelly67
lol
KLV
LiviBhoy
Thats not quite up to speed. He has definitely now played over 100 games for Celtic, I am sure it was on the Celtic site a couple of weeks back, made a big deal of it. Let us see him kick on from here.
Or the cricketing commentators gift.
West Indies Michael Holding bowling to England’s Peter Willey in a test match.
“The bowlers Holding the batsmans Willey”
said BBC commentator Brian Johnson at the 1976 Oval test match.
Oscar Knox is my Hero – RWE
Air miles are generally for work so west coast to east coast in September Denver – San Diego then Orlando all work but I manage to find some R&R in between!
Cant believe the stick James Forrest gets on this blog, maybe its just his turn today.
I am sure there are people on here who would like us to fail so that they could be justified in vilifying the board, manager and players on the blog……….
Kojo 16.38
We are not on the same page regarding JF.
TT
kevinlasvegas
How very dare you….that to me Lola like….. a reverse slap in the face to my anecdotes….
Lola=looks
Bloody AYE phone
lol. me too 31003, i blame big fingers. ;)
KLV
bada bing
been putting up with it for donkey’s years,goes straight over ma heed now
Tonydonnely 67
Can’t entirely agree with you about James needing a rest. He only played 6 last season and he does look as if he has lost confidence but I think he needs more games rather than less. He needs to feature regularly and play about 20 straight games to get back in the groove. In the England game, I was desperate for him to go past Leighton Baines and commit him but he was reluctant to do so on most occasions. When I thought more about it, he may have been under instructions from Gordon Strachan to prevent Baines from getting forward. In the end, I think both players successfully nullified the threat of the other. However, I think that this is what James needs to focus on this season – getting past his defender and getting the ball into the strikers – instead of being shown inside by the defender. Not easy to do when defenders are doubling up on you and when the defender is hugging the line to prevent you going past him on the outside.
I believe James has the talent and we will see it again this season.
valentinesday
16:39 on 19 August, 2013
CQN really is a totally depressing place for REAL Celtic fans these days……it’s wee
Aye, I agree. Unfortunately many here are too pre-occupied with the deidco and what they’re up to, or more interested in slaggin the board/players/tea wummin than gettin behind the team. CQN is like the Daily Record… ye know ye shouldn’t but ye just canna help a quick look noo and again, then instantly regret it. Matchdays are great, after that I would prefer to stay away.
RobinBhoy
a few on here have offered an opinion on james,maybe different to yours but I have not read any stick as u=you put it, if we don’t rate the boy are we to just sit, read and say nowt?…in my opinion the lad is ion the last chance saloon.truly hope I am wrong, but there you go, no abuse, no stick just an opinion.
Am I reading the notice of complaint against Ian Black correctly, i.e. he bet on his team losing a game?
Alleged Party in Breach: Ian Black, Rangers FC
Dates: 4th March 2006 to 28th July 2013
Disciplinary Rule(s) allegedly breached:
Disciplinary Rule 22 (Season 2012/13 and preceding Rules and Articles):
(1) By betting on three football matches on then-registered club not to win.
(2) By betting on a further 10 football matches that involved then-registered club.
(3) By betting on a further 147 football matches.
Principal Hearing Date: Thursday, 12th September 2013
Mr Black has until Monday 26th August 2013 to respond to the complaint.
31003
Are you and tonydonnelly67 some kinda double act. Brilliant stuff from both of you. And yes, you are correct. The amount of vitriol on this sacred blog the last week or so has been very sad and required a bit of humour. :))
Weefra HH
saltires – from earlier
I hope it’s not just wishful thinking but I think we’re past the stage of running around like headless chickens at the beginning of euro games – I think Ledley will plug gaps with vic gone and give us some go forward runs – and of course we gots sammi- as long as we keep our heads
tonydonnelly67
16:19 on 19 August, 2013
Japanese have invented a camera with a shutter that is so fast it can take a picture of a woman with her mouth shut!
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Mrs HJ retorted as follows:
That’s nearly as inventive as the miniscule camera that they can insert in man’s colon to photograph his brain activity
James Forrest, in my humble opinion, is a fantastic YOUNG player. Emphasis on the young. When he matures and leaves the cotton wooled environment that is the family nest, he’ll soon find out that the big bad world owes him NOTHING. When that day comes, and I hope it’s soon, he won’t shout “Ref, rats no ferr, he’ll think, “dirty bassa, he’s no gettin away wi rat”
new article posted.
http://t.co/ZfrO1DiEcU
A must read bhoys,Jingle Jangle here’s yer dinner….
31003
17:04 on 19 August, 2013
James Forrest, in my humble opinion, is a fantastic YOUNG player. Emphasis on the young. When he matures and leaves the cotton wooled environment that is the family nest, he’ll soon find out that the big bad world owes him NOTHING. When that day comes, and I hope it’s soon, he won’t shout “Ref, rats no ferr, he’ll think, “dirty bassa, he’s no gettin away wi rat”
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honestly hope your right mate..
Rangers midfielder Ian Black has been issued with a notice of complaint which includes an allegation of “betting on three matches on his then registered club not to win”, the Scottish Football Association announced today.
Journo on Journo action , this is good.
Greenslade in the Gradian.
Stivs
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Daily Record engages in revisionism over its coverage of RangersShare 3
inShare.0Email Today’s Daily Record carries a magnificent piece of polemic by sports writer Keith Jackson about its coverage of the continuing crisis facing Rangers football club.
In fact, once put into historical context, it turns out to be a self-serving piece of revisionism. It makes no reference to the paper’s 180 degree turn.
The Record’s record in its coverage of the lengthy financial shenanigans at Rangers shows that it has nothing to shout about.
According to Jackson’s account, the paper has been at the forefront of exposing dodgy dealings down the years.
In January 2011, he writes, the Record “revealed the truth” about the “ruinous financial chicanery” of the then chairman, Craig Whyte.
I think he meant January 2012. But that’s a mere slip. The point is that Jackson, the supposed exposer of Whyte, had previously portrayed him as the club’s great saviour.
In November 2010, for example, Jackson described Whyte as the “financial whizzkid from Motherwell”, a “high roller” who had become “Scotland’s youngest self-made millionaire.”
In a breathless piece of puffery, Jackson told of the venture capitalist’s exploits that made him “millions from playing the markets” and able to control “a vast business empire”.
Whyte’s wealth was “off the radar”, wrote Jackson, and enabled him to acquire a castle in Grantown-on-Spey, “one of the most historic buildings in Scotland.”
Jackson and his then boss, Jim Traynor, depicted Whyte as a man of considerable wealth and thereby gave confidence to the club’s fans that he was a good bet to become its owner.
At that time, and afterwards when Whyte acquired the club, the Record (in company with other newspapers) failed to investigate whether the fanciful claims about his riches stood up to scrutiny.
As Channel 4’s reporter, Alex Thomson, revealed, in July 2011, Traynor even went to so far as to submit an article about Whyte for Whyte’s approval prior to publication.
In February 2012, Whyte was forced to put Rangers into administration. And a month later Whyte was deemed “not a fit and proper person” to own a football club following an inquiry on behalf of the Scottish Football Association. He was also fined £200,000.
But this sad saga runs on and on. Traynor quit the Record in December last year in order to become PR of Rangers, having been appointed by Whyte’s successor, Charles Green.
Four months later, the board of the reconstituted Rangers entity (Rangers International Football Club) issued a statement saying Green and the club’s commercial director, Imran Ahmad, were to be the subject of an inquiry following allegations about their management of the club.
And Green, now a “consultant” with Rangers, could possibly be ejected from that position too, a claim reported by the Record now that it has cast off its Ibrox cheerleading role. Or is it secretly cheerleading for a group within the club? Is it just not possible for it to be entirely impartial?
Anyway, one single, simple fact emerges from all this – Rangers football club got into trouble a long time ago and the mainstream media, whether by commission or omission, failed to do its job. Rather than hold the people in charge to account, it acted as a spin-doctor.
Belatedly, the Record shows signs of realising the error of its ways (without apologising to its readers for those errors). Jackson wrote today that Rangers is “a club which continues to self-harm spectacularly.”
If only he had written that three years or more ago. Then again, Traynor was his boss at the time. It’s no wonder, perhaps, that the former journalistic colleagues have fallen out of late.
Seems that toe rage Black is in trouble for betting on games…..Hmmmm.
valentine’s day
Don’t be daft man. No one on here wants Celtic to fail to reach the CL Groups stages BUT if they fail to do so serious questions will be asked of those in charge. Starting with why they didn’t see the need to replace Victor and Gary with similar type players when they knew in advance that they were leaving.
Your post is another futile attempt to stifle meaningful debate on CQN by trying to promote that the nonsense that the critics on here would want us to lose just so that they can criticise. I want Celtic to win through and I will still criticise if I feel the need to.
Original Sadies Bhoy
Hiya, Teach?
Pleased tae Meetya, wance Mair.
You hiv made an excellent Point,pal. .aboot Jamesie being .. Berefted, of several Games, during last Season
You Pinpointed a Good Point.. wish Ah hid Thought o’ it..
Jamesie,naturally, because of his Missed outings, during the Season gone..
Is .. well.. Rusty.
His Confidence ,is doon , as well.. This is.. tae be expected.
Jamesie,is a Brammer.
That , Sums up ..Whit Ah think of the Laddie.
He needs games… and His Confidence wull only Grow as he gets ’em.
Nice Chatting,Pal.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
So Black has been betting on games for 7 years.
The huns must be desperate to get him off the wage bill, would never have seen the light of day otherwise.
The Honest Mistake loves being first
15:04 on
19 August, 2013
Trophybhoy.
Sorry for slagging cathode ray technology.
Cheers for the advice. Turkeybhoy might be getting a bargain then.
Hh
Never you mind talk of a bargain,the deals done.Nae backtracking.
31003
15:05 on
19 August, 2013
Best pub to watch the game in Santa Ponsa? Anyone?
The Celts Well along in the Square in SP,Hogans Stand,down the road a bit.No shortage of Tim pubs there.Paguera,the home of the 4th Reich!!!!!.
One thing for certain – happy clapper or mineshafter – we all have ONE desire tomorrow – TO WIN THIS TIE.
Twists and Turns,think I would class myself as a “Happy Shafter”.