The ball from Joto ranged across the field, landing precisely where intended. So much in football is about the first touch and Kyogo’s did not disappoint. The ball came from behind him, was allowed to bounce then he cushioned it, simultaneously taking pace off the ball and directing it towards goal.
If the keeper looked stranded, it was because within two touches play moved from possession 70 yards from goal to a shooting opportunity on the edge of the penalty area. Kyogo rolled the ball between keeper and post to the relief of the 50,000 + crowd.
That moment transformed what was a nervous game, filled by Celtic’s nervy unenforced errors and Ferencvaros’ dogged defending. Jota’s pass for the second goal was more prosaic but undernotes the contribution he is making to our season. He later missed a gilt-edged chance, made less noteworthy because it was part of a congregation of missed gilt-edged chances by David Turnbull, twice, and Callum McGregor, from the penalty spot.
Turnbull recovered from his first miss, a fresh air shot from six yards, to bundle the ball over the line. Ange will doubtlessly ponder that we got away with one after missing a penalty, we will continue to pay a penalty if this weakness is not resolved and a reliable taker found.
We have special players, enjoy them.
Yesterday afternoon’s attendance, during school and daytime working hours, matched any home attendance Oldco or Newco have enjoyed since Roy Aitken scored twice at Ibrox when Celtic took a point there in 1977. The sheer scale of Celtic is remarkable.
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Happy with result and in particular the 2nd half performance yesterday afternoon. It has been said more than once, but the first goal was superb, and I had a brilliant view of it from my seat in 202 right on the 6 yard line at Celtic end. We need to be more clinical with the finishing – could, and maybe should, have been 5-0. Not putting a damper on an enjoyable match though. Thought Big G-Mac showed up well in his 15 minutes on the pitch, good body strength and learnt a thing or two on drawing fouls from playing in NL…
HH
1st, do not believe it
Martin42
Naw
Pants…
Martin 42
Good to see you on. Hope you are well.
Paul should be giving you a wee heads up on the new article being posted to improve your chances!
Paul 67,
The attendance yesterday will not go unnoticed.
HH.
Despite running Jota close for MOTM with his overall display , I wasn’t convinced by Callum’s penalty . It looked to me like he didn’t look up once between spotting the ball and taking the kick . Perhaps he didn’t want distracted by any goalkeeper antics , but it didn’t look overly confident . Not as bad as my two main penalty dislikes though , which are too short a run up and too long a run up .
Greed Paul, some very good players , a big improvement from last year. Joe hart not the least of them. the save from a free kick when largely unnoticed, but i would bet the house on that being a goal with any other current Celtic goalkeeper.
the good news is the room for improvement is still tangible. Unenforced errors are still aplenty.
Your only as strong as your weakest link, we still need upgrades all over the pitch
Great stat at the end. Love it
is calmac now the official penalty taker?
or did he just take it because it was an important moment and hes the captain?
i would have given it to the best penalty taker who was currently on the park
i dont know who that would have been, the players and manager would have known though
but i would be surprised if calmac is the best penalty taker we have
Gary,
thanks for your good wishes.
I am thankfully very well, but in the great scheme of thing, I stay out of trouble.
I have only been to 2 games this season, so am really missing all the wonderful things that are happening at Celtic Park. Mrs.Martin 42 and I try where possible to avoid crowded places.
I was selfishly hoping yesterday the crowd would be a lot less, but at the last minute, I called off and watched the game on television.
Not as good as being there in person, but still very enjoyable.
Best wishes to you and all the other posters, keep believing and aleays,
STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS.
Martin42
Back to the uefa banner.
it was difficult to understand what they are protesting about ?
the game wasnt moved for tv purposes, so that missed the mark. the police asked the original scheduled fixture for gameday 4 be moved due to cop26, uefa complied, but then the xisture clashed with the sevco one. so it was moved again to the tuesday, but would not be allowed at sametime as CL fixtures. so moved to early kick off time.
If anything that means an exclusive tv audience as we are the only fixture, the yanks and australians in my department watched the game live.
and a 50,000 attendance , including a full standing area, seems to me people were not so disadvantaged.
was it the kick off time meant the youths had to be up earlier and missed countdown ?
ps,
moving the fixture gains us a satruday 3pm kick off against saint johnstone, and recovery time between games of 4 days. that is a good thing surely.
meanwhile sevco play thursday night, then have a sunday 12 noon kick off. 2 and a bit days recovery.
if results go our way, they could be off top of the table, and have united and celtic right behind them.
they dont do pressure, well their fans dont let them do pressure,
look at the advantages, i dont see any disadvantages.
Only caught the 2nd half but really enjoyed our play, especially post-Kyogo’s terrific goal. An absolute belter.
Football post-Xmas is within touch if we can hold our nerve in Budapest. That will be progress. And hopefully allow us to put Boli back in the squad (or upgrade), have Julien and Juranovic back from injury and a settled back 5.
HH and let’s keep the winning habit going.
HH
SAINT STIVS on 20TH OCTOBER 2021 12:36 PM
…was it the kick off time meant the youths had to be up earlier and missed countdown ?
🙂
Bruce has left Sandcastle Utd.
Of course good players helps, but so does a coach with a clear plan of what he is trying to achieve and how. Love these comments from him:
“Part of the challenge of playing quality teams is can you cause them problems? It’s easy to set out a team to stop the opposition but if you really want to make an impact in Europe you have got to be able to hurt opposition teams yourself”.
The bus parkers have had their day. It will get you the odd result but you won’t be troubling the later stages of these competitions.
Keep at it, Ange. The players look like they have bought into it. Just need to keep working on improving it.
Ridiculous first question from Al Lamont to Ange last night. The sort of question no other coach would receive after a relatively comfortable win.
However a good friend of mine has told me that Lamont is neither posh nor a hun . Probably has leanings to the dark side . Married into a big Tim family.
ERNIE LYNCH on 20TH OCTOBER 2021 12:59 PM
Bruce has left Sandcastle Utd.
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With a reported £8m sweetener. I don’t think he will be too upset.
There is no way he’ll be replaced with slippy.
GREENPINATA on 20TH OCTOBER 2021 1:02 PM
ERNIE LYNCH on 20TH OCTOBER 2021 12:59 PM
Bruce has left Sandcastle Utd.
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With a reported £8m sweetener. I don’t think he will be too upset.
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Certainly better than an invitation to the Saudi Embassy, which might have been the alternative.
Oops, almost didn’t notice the obligatory mention of It’s-Definitely-Not-Rangers. Nicely worked in, Paul!
Souness was interviewed yesterday about possibly Gerrard for Newcastle.
He said he should not touch it, he will succeed Klopp in 2-3 years time , his destiny is Liverpool. Klopp will go manage Germany or Bayern and Gerrard will return, he made it sound feasible and agreed.
Next stayin 5 or 6 years at Rangers wont do him any harm, he is still learning, has improved each year, and is credible in europe.
Next next, I personally would touch the job, I could not work for the Saudid given their Human rights record, and its wrong they were allowed to buy Newcastle, the club is now toxic.
Lets see if he accepts commentating gigs for the world cup.
If we finish 3rd, we’ll play a conference team. If we finish 2nd, we’ll play a team who drop out of the champions league. The winner will continue in the Europa. If you lose that game, is that you right out of Europe? (I think so, but not sure).
Squirrel King @ 1.14
SG is on a hiding to nothing this season after the horrible CL failure.
Thin squad / not playing well and the MIB angle being questioned with ever increasing intensity.
Then there is the issue of squad degradation starting to bubble away / come to the surface.
CoViD19 saved him in March 2020 — post Dubai collapse forgotten.
CoViD19 gave him a big boost last season — we helped as well.
SG doesn’t do pressure and it is starting to build.
We just need to get to Jan in a credible fashion and then spend some money.
Probably looking at 4 players in plus a couple of projects.
Our squad is maturing and we are staring to understand AP’s tactics.
Still lacking a bit of confidence / drive / swagger but it is improving.
SG needs out ASAP — no plaudits for winning the SPL twice.
If Gerrard moves to Liverpool in a few years time (doubt it) I suspect his career trajectory will mirror that of Souness.
– Guy in his 30s
– No management experience
– Takes over at Ibrox
– Delivers “relative” success
– He’s the front. Others do the coaching
– Moves to Anfield
– Through combo of arrogance/ignorance
– Undoes a generation of club building
– Flops and is sacked
Yesterday afternoon’s attendance, during school and daytime working hours, matched any home attendance Oldco or Newco have enjoyed since Roy Aitken scored twice at Ibrox when Celtic took a point there in 1977. The sheer scale of Celtic is remarkable.
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I find this kind of comment and comparison weird. It’s a needless comparison. The online world is littered with comparisons between what we do and what they do. Yesterday was a positive day, but let’s not kid anyone we are miles short of the potential of the club. Also rans in the second tier of European football. As long as we have one eye on what’s happening over the river we will never reach our full potential.
Echo SAINT STIVS re section 111 banner.
The fact that over 50,000 turned up for a half 3 on a Tuesday kick off, including a full section 111, makes them look a tad foolish.
We get the three points, and a £500k uefa win bonus, get to play 3pm on Saturday and close the gap to one point. The section 111 banner brigade really hadn’t thought it through.
If you are not in hurry to head home after the match, and want to avoid the massive crowd at Dalmarnock station, there is a smashing Marsten brewers fayre across the road from Shawfield stadium, about a 20 minute walk from CP. Ideal for half 3 on a Tuesday afternoon euro match ! Another one next year please uefa. Mrs Jimdom may not agree !
David17
Absolutely spot on. And yet no matter how often this fails us we keep doing it! Weird…….
A great performance in what Ange himself had billed as a must-win game. The players dealt very well with the pressure, the team are growing in confidence, games like last night all add to it and having quality in the team certainly helps
50,000 on a Tuesday afternoon at the house-of-cards dome. Who’d have thought it?
Yesterday afternoon’s attendance, during school and daytime working hours, matched any home attendance Oldco or Newco have enjoyed since Roy Aitken scored twice at Ibrox when Celtic took a point there in 1977. The sheer scale of Celtic is remarkable.
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I find this kind of comment and comparison superb noise up material which has been copied, pasted and texted to every bluenose of my acquaintance
Ban BBC Scotland, the usual agenda filled interviews, and selective highlights of Sevco games,3 red card incidents in last 2 games ignored, chase them.
BADA BING,
Sympathise with your sentiment. It must really sicken them that the deid team won’t give them air-time.
Having said that, I was amazed after the games yesterday: they were heaping praise on our performance, even English.
CELTIC40ME
Doesn’t provide a full day off for the cynics, who log in in to moan about something anything from Celtic.
Gerrad would bite your hand off for the Newcastle job. everyone knows Covid saved him from a seat next to Jeff stelling on a Saturday
Unlimited funds for a couple of years to win an FA cup and get them into the top 4 then step into Klopps shoes at his spiritual home just as questions will be asked on league and CL aspirations.
There is no path from Rangers to Liverpool. things have changed beyond recognition since Sourness did it. (Craig levien from Herts to leicster city..)
I wonder what would have happened ten years ago if Paul67 and Philmac had concentrated solely on Celtic and ignored goings on at Rangers
Three titles in a row for them certainly made it look like the problems were all ours.
Gerrard is only the front for Beale and Liverpool know all about his abilities.
JIMDOM on 20TH OCTOBER 2021 1:59 PM
The section 111 banner brigade really hadn’t thought it through.
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They think nothing through. The “It’s OK not to be OK” was another walloper. The need to be rebellious & controversial is child-like. Turning up at Celtic Park provides a platform – ‘support’ of Celtic is merely a veneer. This section is tolerated by 98% of the support because they make most noise…. so to do empty barrels. Look out for Res 12 banners next – another ’cause’ that hasn’t been thought through.