Celtic’s season will open up if they can take Dinamo Zagreb down a peg or two tonight. The Croatian champions have read the stories about the debacle against Legia and subsequent humbling by Maribor, who turned out to be anything but humble, if their draw away to Schalke this week in the Champions League is anything to go by.
All they know about Celtic is the trauma we’ve come through in recent months. Details, like the aforementioned under-appreciation of Maribor, or the extremely credible away performance against top seed, Salzburg in the last round, will be difficult to fit into their match planning.
Salzburg was a sign that there is more to come from this Celtic team than was previously evident, and unlike Maribor, who arrived in Glasgow aware of our potential, Dinamo confidently predicted they are “here for the win”. Even Juventus were more cautious at Glasgow Airport.
European football gives players an opportunity to stamp their name at the club, and on subsequent team sheets, just ask Wakaso Mubarak, who put a stake in the ground 13 minutes into his debut in Salzburg, or Callum McGregor, who stamped his authority all over our European campaign already this season. Tonight is the game Stefan Scepovic has been waiting for since arriving (without a proper preseason) on deadline day.
I’m not expecting a flowing game tonight, nor do I think such a game would be beneficial to us. Keep it tight and exploit our chances, and we’ll shut Dinamo up.
Don’t want to get drawn off course today, but a quick point:
Remember what I detailed about Fraser Forster’s professionalism? Ronny Deila is 100% correct on what he said on fitness recently; big Fraser was one end of a spectrum.
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My shout would be Silly Davis another baw face loyal blue legend.H.H.
roberttressell – 1,000 jobbies is a lot of jobbies.
Dear reader, in their herrenvolk hubris the klan have fatally miscalculated just how many jobbies that is.
I put it to my well placed source from Edinburgh zoo and he confimed it would be “a veritable jobbygeddon.”
Ibrox would be full of jobbies. Is Planet Fitba ready for the blaring brown trumpets of The People?
And would anybody notice?
(thumbsup)
Hope the Burgh bus ain’t an indicator of tonight’s attendance.
8 on a 16 seater.
Worst bus attendance for a while.
Anyway here’s to a resounding victory, well 1 nil will do!!
HH & KTF
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
Aye it’ll be the same the night, Holy Cross boys are casuals, dearie me although I hear Ole Bourne was quite casual in his heyday.::)))
Hows things in the valley?
Another good victory for the Basle bhoys. 5/2 yer dosh..
Living in the love…
No worries, not sure about the US TV setup just saw it on this link
http://m.livesoccertv.com/match/1308538/celtic-vs-dinamo-zagreb/
More important than scoring is keeping them from scoring. Even if we win, if they score, we are up against it …
I assume jackson is getting banned for his twisted report of the manager’s press conference where according to Jackson he accused Neil Lennon of allowing the players to behave like amateurs. Obviously no such thing was said.
kingsnake –
Can you please explain your thinking with that last sentence there as personally I’d be delighted with ANY sort of win.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
Things are good mate, lovely Autumn sun this week, weans are good, I was in Basel yesterday a way over the top Police presence for two groups of fans who were drinking and singing together, the Basel boys were sure they were going to get humped, I said they could do it! A decent outfit Basel though not as good as last year, some disgruntled troops among their support.
Sell their best players, managers clueless etc etc, sounds familiar:))
Gute Besserung as the say over here..
j77
18:14 on 2 October, 2014
Living in the love…
No worries, not sure about the US TV setup just saw it on this link
http://m.livesoccertv.com/match/1308538/celtic-vs-dinamo-zagreb/
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Thanks again pal. I’ve got an IT department spotty teenager techie genius on the joab, so looks like I’m sorted!
bsr – I commented on that earlier, let’s hope they behave and that our fans stay safe.
Kingsnake. Away goals dont count do they ? so a 5-4 win would give us the 3 points. H.H.
Jobo Baldie: I forgot this is not a one off. Suffering from PTSD …
Wee Chick……………………….
total Sleekit.
In the event of 2 teams finishing level on points, goal difference on their head to heads will count in separating them, so not conceding could be important but it certainly is not as vital as if it was a qualifier.
If Sleekit slinks……..
………..then The Haircut That Time Forgot
will buy his own Blazer’n’Brogues………for the ranjurs.
Celtic (Solo)
celtic
celtic (Solo)
celtic
come on you boys in green (Solo)
come on you boys in green
come on you boys in green (Solo)
come on you boys in green
glasgow’s green and white (Solo)
glasgow’s green and white
glasgow’s green and white (Solo)
glasgow’s green and white oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!
I find my stomach churning just waiting for Ronny’s selection, never mind waiting for the match.
kingsnake –
we all make mistakes.
How many hours till kick off? ;-)
Chick just doing his best for short-sighted hunned-up scoddish journalism
corkcelt. Calm down fella Ronny will get it right on the night. H.H.
bankiebhoy1
I thought he would still be in The Darkened Room after the Hibs score :))
corkcelt
It’s me and BT upfront
Wdh
Lack of pace again…
Shortbread urgently searching for internal strife at Celtic less than an hour before we kick -off in Europe.
Starry
– he’s been coaxed out, reluctantly, in earnestly bitter anticipation of a Celtic upset.
BT,
Plenty of width tho… ;)
3-1 to the good guys tnight. Scepovic surprising everybody with 2, from the heid.
I see Ashley now has a 9% stake in the zombies……….. why have I got a horrible gut feeling about this ???!!!!
BT
” I was never quick , I was never thin , now I am 38 I am slow and heavy but my appreciation of space and geometry is better now than it used to be ”
Francesco Totti -Rai Radio 1/ 10 / 2014
I’m googling geometry right now…
bankiebhoy. Are you on your own time line ? h.h.
2-1 to the good ghuys… maybe even 3…
…if Griffiths plays and Ronny doesn’t hand them the midfield on a plate.
Mon the Tic
Jqb
Ayd around the waist…
38 wdh, neither age nor waist…8)
Geometri,
Am sure that was an Italian wummin I went out with
The tangents….. oh the tangents
Totti
I thought you where talking about yourself
Josie……..
How?
whitedoghunch
18:35 on
2 October, 2014
I loved this:
Totti: “I was very surprised at how quiet the crowd was in Manchester. There is more noise in an average Roman cinema.”
vinniethedog – worms. (thumbsup)