Spartak Moscow today sacked manager Unai Emeri after a 1-5 home league defeat against eight placed Dinamo Moscow. Spartak are confirmed as bottom of Celtic’s Champions League group before they head to Celtic Park for the final game on 5 December.
Emeri has been increasingly unpopular since taking over earlier this year when his spell at Valencia ended, while rumours of dissent in the dressing room were never far away. I had hoped he would remain in place for the visit to Glasgow but there will be a new man in charge by then.
A group of around 200 supporters demonstrated after the game, many chanting for the foreign players to ‘Go home’.
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Messi scores 2nd.
3-0
Iniesta …piledriver..superb
nakas
are you being canamalared?
BT
Tv back up and running?
This year’s Celtic are the same outfit who produced the superb performances in Moscow, against Barca over 2 legs, at Fir Park in September, against St. Mirren at Paisley and against St. Johnstone in the LC.
If it were down to tactical naivety how come those big brains and superior managers did not do us then?
There IS a performance difficulty with our players but tactics have little to do with it. Neil Lennon is not advocating the fetishistic approach to ball retention that characterised WGS’s teams. He allows the talent to have a go with a direct attack whether you are a winger or a centre forward.
However, when the crowd starts to grumble that the forward pass was intercepted or the dribbler was dispossessed, then most players will go into their shell and play safety first. We do create the conditions at CP whereby the sideways pass and the backwards pass will flourish because we groan more loudly and abuse more vituperatively when we give the ball away, even in the act of trying something, than we do over a safe sideways pass.
We have a problem with team performance, particularly at CP. Primarily this is a player performance issue. I do not blame the crowd for everything but currently we do not help, especially when we do not have the GB to fire us up and drown out our negativity. Outwith the big Euro games we are a very docile support which allows the minority of hotheads and spoiled weans, a vacuum, into which they pour their own frustraitons at their personal inadequacies.
I watched Swansea and Liverpool, 2 mid table EPL clubs, make more up the middle passes than we see in 5 games at CP. They take chances in passing through defences so as not to encourage teams to double up on wingers and full backs, leaving their middle exposed. They kept defences honest by making them defend their centres AND their wings. Since Ki left we have few players attempting this.
In acknowledging these concerns I, nevertheless, want the players to be mentally strong enough to block the crowd out and get on with things.
One of our poorest performers yesterday was Kris Commons. Almost every shot went high and wide and most of his passes were over or under hit.
Still, Kris was also one of our bravest performers because, like Giorgios on other occasions, he never hid and constantly sought the ball but, unfortunately, continued to do badly with it. He might have been assessed as having a mediocre rather than a terrible game if he had hid from the ball more but Kris showed, for me, yesterday that he did have character of the type we will need.
I hope others step up to the plate in our next match. I know that we will not face the same problems with the Celtic crowd who will go to Tynecastle.
Whats his target?
SFTB
you must be getting old son,
thats how my dad summed up yesterday after I calmed him down with a Brandy Shandy..
tallybhoy
20:25 on
25 November, 2012
A penalty given against Juventus?
A bit like Sevco’s opponents getting one!
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Can’t agree. I think juve are playing sevco
Gene
How often i said …. That lazy b hartson has done hee haw tod…… GOAL ;)
Watching the Barca game has made me more convinced that our support need to contribute as they did against Barca for the Spartak and domestic games ……. We have a BIG part to play …… 3 nil Barca ….2 messi ….82 goals. Needs 86 ….WORLD RECORD ……THE BEST PLAYER EVER
Its much easier to set out a team to defend than it is to attack. So tactics are an issue.
bt
Glenmorangie toadie? What a waste. o(
Sir Paul
Ye dinnae Bring good tidings..
A Tall.. A Tal!
In fact…
It is a Bit o’ a Blow..
Fur..
Everybuddy, knows.. even.. ma Pal, Nutsy..
That a Managerial Chinge.. in the Soccer World…
Kin..
Inject .. a Doze o’ Resurrected Confidence and Enthusiasm.. intae the affected Club.
In this case..
Spartak Moscow.
And .. that is somethim..
We soitenly..don’t Need..
An ” Oota-Prove-A- Point- Tae Oor Noo Boss” favour currying…attitude..
frum oor Opponents, in oor next Euro Confronto.
Especially, the wey we ur playing, the noo!
Right?
Absolutely.
Kojo
Noo, Ah am Not Looking Forward tae the Russian Visit.
Dan.
Good post mate.
A lot of the younger ones don’t realise the stick we got of the huns during
that period.
That’s why this year has been so special.
One blip that hopefully will be reversed if common sense and integrity prevail.
My god i have gloated on the demise of the hun.hail hail
BT
Your dad was telling me how crap the team were in st michaels at 1:15 pm
My friends Mother and Father are named Mary and Joseph, his names Alan.
SFTB
I font hint we have the payers who can see and make a pass….Ki could ..and was often the only one who did
There is a concerning lack of inventiveness in our team …Forrest can beat a player…injured
Commons looks out of sorts …McCourt..possibly …
Beyond them we struggle …
Font hint..FFS ..don’t think
setting free the bears
21:12 on
25 November, 2012
Great post, perhaps this is why Jim McGuiness has been brought into the back room staff.
To help the players deal with the discontent from the crowd and to stay brave.
Can I check summitt? Who put on and paid for the display at the Barca game?
kickin…,
so why are you blaming absentee’s who support the GB
but not any other absentee’s.
best if you just stop your blame game and get on with supporting the team
I mean if you consider it better to blame someone
and it is about the GB, thats what I was talking about.
You jumped in to the discussion and had a go at people who never turned up in support of the GB.
I finished talking about the result yesterday
Jude
no blended whisky, gleenmorangie worst of the malts in the ole cupboard..
Christmas shopping today.
In window of Celtic shop was panoramic picture of GB-organised and paid for display against Barcelona.
If the club did not help fund costs for this, I think it is a bit cheeky to flog pictures of it for profit…
Or are the GB getting a cut?
stevo
We’ll agree to disagree then.
BT
Can a lagered, I think!
Picking Starry up tomorrow at the airport, think he is looking forward to a wee meet up and drink with cqners….canalamar can come to!
jude2005
The GB made an appeal for funds, so it was us, the fans who paid.
Twitter, Facebook and the like we’re used to advertise it.
gleenmorangie is obviously a chinese import.
maybe thats why its not so good..
like those raybeenies I bought in Turkey this year..
iniquitousiv
Glad to hear it. I was being a bit arsy. I like EC a lot but think his whole career was based on copying someone.
One of my favourite quotes ever was mrs Cale when asked about JJ records and replied . “That stuff is nothing you should hear him on the porch”.
BT
Your da had the privilege of playing with a golden generation of Scottish players, including a handful of world class performers.
I like the potential in our current group but they will always suffer heavily in any comparison with that era. This crop is, at least, the equal to our teams from the 1980s and superior to the teams of the 90s.
With a change in playing conditions we might be as good as our team from the early to mid 2000s but we may never be as good as the 66 to 74 era again, I fear.
jinky
I was critical of the team performance yesterday too. How could you not be? We are getting close to being distracted by Europe. We need to start stringing results together in this league before NOT winning becomes an SPL habit.
“in a half-filled stadium”
From a report in some `paper. Is that right? Only 30,000 at the game? Thee BBC gave it as 44,000.
JJ
Sftb
Summed up perfectly for me
Kikinthenakas
67heaven
Agree 100%
tallybhoy
I think we will have to yes but not on the GB picture. I believe it was from donations and merchandise revenus and not the club
Poor!!!
With 8:30 to go I still think juve can do this :-)
screen73
Usually don’t post very often , for several reasons but felt moved to post in response to your post .
Due in part to your excellent post and in part to my Donegal / Leitrim roots .
I hope to see the same results with Celtic as Jim achieved with Donegal , I only want what’s best for my / our club not interested in putting the boot in to our manager or our club , that’s what the MSM want .
Celtic from birth , Celtic till I die .
Hail Hail
Doc
Ta. So who laid the out all the stuff? Must have been a mammoth task.
Jude2005, that was the members of the GB.
screen73
20:40
Jim McGuiness is clearly a clever man and will add greatly to the Celtic coahing team. I’ve read a few articles in the wake of the financial collapse in 2007, criticising the arrogance of those who were at the heart of the problem. many believed that they were successful because of their talents. When this was brought in to question they couldn’t accept that THEY had any blame to share for the events, for which we are all still paying and will be for a long time to come, while they are still raking it in, albeit in smaller bundles of 000’s. (Had to get that bit in :) )
People in the above category think they just have to show up and do their magic. Wrong. Hard work is required all the way.
I have been told that the footballers on the continent work much harder and take their training and well being much more seriously than the average british player.
I hope Jim is highly successful, but that requires buy-in from the players. I hope they listen to him.
It’ll be a big difference to Donegal, dealing with players who want to become successful, where as here he will be dealing with players who most likely think they already are succssful.
I think he’s a GREAT appointment!!!!
I’m sure we have used sports psychologists previously, just never had one as a full time coach.
Bookie
I guess we will first on Sportscene tonight.