By Alex Gordon.
A DREADFUL penalty-kick miss by Bahrudin Atajic condemned Ronny Deila to his first defeat as Celtic manager.
The Bosnian striker had the ideal opportunity to level the scores four minutes from time after substitute Paul McMullan had been downed in the box.
Unfortunately, Atajic blazed his spot-kick over the bar into the Hamburg crowd much to the annoyance of the new Hoops gaffer.
It was a largely experimental Celtic line-up with Deila taking no risks ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League qualifier against Legia Warsaw in the Polish capital.
Alas, appalling defending by Filip Twardzik gifted the Germans the winning goal before the interval.
The left-back made a mess of trying to control a long and hopeful punt into the Celtic penalty box. The ball broke clear and was immediately presented to Christopher Nothe who could hardly believe his good fortune.
Nothe struck his effort first time from eight yards and Craig Gordon had no chance as the low drive zipped past his right hand in the 39th minute.
Twardzik toiled in the opening 45 minutes and was also booked in the 33rd minute after a lunging tackle after once again giving the ball away with a slack pass.
Celtic started at whirlwind pace and had three excellent opportunities inside the opening 10 minutes.
Atajic fizzed in a low shot from just outside the box, but keeper Philipp Tschauner got down swiftly to hold the ball at his right hand post.
Five minutes later, Tony Watt, looking lively on the left wing, tried his luck from a tight angle.
His shot totally bamboozled Tschauner, but carried over the crossbar and out to safety.
Amido Balde should have got the game’s opening goal in the 10th minute when he was through on goal after some neat play outside the box.
However, the Portuguese Under-21 international lacked composure at the vital moment and allowed the keeper to block his hurried parting shot.
Gordon, making his second appearance for the Hoops, showed he was still rusty after being out for over two years with a slack goal-kick to Nir Biton.
The Israeli midfielder, captain for the day, was taken unawares and St Pauli broke forward, but made a mess of the opportunity.
Stuart Findlay, partnering Eoghan O’Connell in the middle of the inexperienced back four, was also sloppy with some wayward passes, but the Hoops escaped punishment.
The game was billed as a friendly – and the clubs have an affiliation – but the home players weren’t slow to put in some punishing challenges.
Skipper Soren Gonther was yellow-carded for a rugby tackle on McGeouch that wouldn’t have looked out of place in Celtic’s current home at Murrayfield.
Liam Henderson tried to set up Balde with a neat chip into the danger zone, but the ball carried over the giant frontman’s head.
It looked like being a stalemate at the interval until Twardzik’s lapse in concentration and control allowed St Pauli to snatch the lead.
Deila put on Lukasz Zaluska for Gordon at half-time and replaced the ineffective Balde with Paul McMullan.
Henderson brought the St Pauli keeper into action with a long-range free-kick in the 65th minute. The idea was good, but, unfortunately, the execution didn’t quite match the ambition.
Zaluska produced one memorable moment when he pushed a raging effort from Sebastian Mhyre over the crossbar 10 minutes from time.
Then came Atajic’s dreadful spot-kick blunder which was followed in the last minute by an effort from Watt which swept just wide of the target.
As an exercise, it was worthwhile and the Celtic youngsters will expect to do better when presented with the opportunity to impress the new manager.
CELTIC: Gordon (sub: Zaluska 46); Herron, Findlay, O’Connell, Twardzik; Biton, Henderson, McGeouch; Atajic, Balde (sub: McMullan 46) and Watt.
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If we keep talking football and The Celtic it will have the same effect on those who wish to undermine the blog as water has on ye olde wicked witch:)))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopdD9Cu-So
BMCUW
I totally agree with you , but !!
Three options
(1) ignore them
(2) respond
(3) The boss bans them
If the third option is taken the we lose the ethos of the blog
If we respond the pish and bile will continue .
Scroll past would be my option , not saying its right but they come on with an agenda fk thum
I’m glad i dont have the level of or background of education you guys have indeed it sometimes is a blessing not getting into these tragic but very real issues . Money , greed and power more than religion will keep wars going anyhoo outa here promised myself i would’nt give my opinion on serious stuff , my inane ramblings will resume later ;))
Leftclicktic Griffiths for me to, best finisher we have.
eddieinkirkmichael
13:25 on 27 July, 2014
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
13:00
Because by agreeing to go back to the 1967 borders( handing Golan Heights over to the UN) Israel would be showing the world that they are serious about peace. That wont happen though as we both know Israel doesn’t want peace, it’s want to drive the Palestinian people off their land.
What’s happening is ethnic cleansing, why do some posters have difficulty accepting that?
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The Golan Heights tower above Israel. Syria used their strategic advantage to launch missile strikes on Israel. It would be suicidal for the Israelis to return the Golan Heights.
I in no way condone the massacre of innocent children in Gaza.
EDDIEINKIRKMICHAEL
Israel is entitled to defend itself. Which of course is a separate issue from current events.
The Golan Heights overlooks the country. Israel cannot allow the possibility of an enemy force controlling that area.
The UN have been largely ineffective in the region and would have to be 100% effective to prevent Israeli casualties as a result of bombardment from it.
For that reason,Israel will not relinquish control. And frankly I don’t blame them.
Gary67
I have always seen Pukki as an old fashioned “inside left” type of player.
I hope he turns out to be a star for us.
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dontpatmaboabie…
I Don’t Think We Should Be Taking Anything Kitalba Says….
TOO Seriously….! ;-)
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kitalba
17:14 on 8 June, 2014
sftb:
I was a pr*ck..I was a pri*ck..I w*s a prick..
I was a pr*ck..I was a pr*ck..I was a pr*ck..
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Up The HOOPS..!
Not many on here seem to have ever read the Old Testament,in their pursuit of genocide reportage ;((.
Voltaire had it nailed; “People who believe in absurdities will commit atrocities”
NoteveryjewisanisraelibuteveryZionistisCSC
captain beefheart:
Classic whataboutery from you.
There have been no threats of violence or anti-semitism on the blog.
Chevez’s point is about the inevitability of a violent response to this murderous campaign and the belief that only Israeli casualties are likely to lead to a reconsideration of this policy.
There have been numerous calls for an end to the systematic slaughter of civilians and for a just peace…
Bloodthirsty marxists?
Jeezo!
Celtic should be discussed. However when some posters post about contentious subjects then they must expect alternative views. It is frightening how many of you cannot allow open debate. Good on those who challenge the set agenda and express their thoughts. A blog should be strong enough to maintain robust debate. Some of you oddly feel that CQN is your personal plaything, a place where only your opinion can be aired.
Oops..!
Go On Yersel..SuperPukkie!
eddieinkirkmichael
13:25 on 27 July, 2014
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
13:00
Because by agreeing to go back to the 1967 borders( handing Golan Heights over to the UN) Israel would be showing the world that they are serious about peace. That wont happen though as we both know Israel doesn’t want peace, it’s want to drive the Palestinian people off their land.
What’s happening is ethnic cleansing, why do some posters have difficulty accepting that?
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Don’t you think that if the Arab countries who attacked Israel in 1967, when Israel took the Golan Heights from Syria, then we would have seen ethnic cleansing on the grand scale? Can you understand that?
West Wales,
I have had my say. No more for now. Suffice to say it is a heartbreaking situation.
gordybhoy64
The solution is to recognise the rights of good people on both sides and to do whatever is possible to help them live in peace, security and hopefully prosperity. This is all that anyone wants, however there are elements who will never accept the other side in any way shape or form. There has to be a way to free the population of Gaza from the grip of extremism, though it’s no doubt difficult with the much farther reaching elements involved with Hamas.
I really think people should read this article, as it will help give a greater understanding to why we find ourselves in this current situation.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118828/israel-palestine-war-army-knew-beforehand-gaza-was-crisis
To answer you question directly – Until people stop making excuses for extremism, then there can never be peace and I’m not just talking about in regards to this conflict.
HH!
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
13:38 on
27 July, 2014
dontpatmaboabie…
I Don’t Think We Should Be Taking Anything Kitalba Says….
TOO Seriously….!
Do not take anything I read on here to seriously old bean
particularly your ramblings.
CB
Aye but you fling around names and generalisations behind your 70’s rock persona. Bloodthirsty Marxists indeed!
That’s what angers me. Keyboard mouthpieces. In no way a reasoned debater.
Captain Birdseye standard answers and debating technique:
Bloodthirsty Marxists with the odd Stalinist thrown in( do people still really use these terms?)
The Clique ( The great obsession of all troll like creatures to inhibit the blog since it’s beginning)
The Agenda ( set by who and when do they do it???)
My friend you are one of the most contentious people on here with your modus operandi where you come on with your blunderbuss opening statement and then your whataboutery retreat in your victim defence of the blog not being able to discuss contentious subjects,
The blog has discussed everything and anything since it begin it did before you arrived and it will after you go should you choose to go.
Finally this is not a threat an insinuation or otherwise a clique based post just my observation of your posts..
An x IDF soldiers view
I only knew Gaza from the stories. It was the military zone for which the Givate Brigade was responsible, but we all knew the stories about how they managed to kill several militants in one ambush. Honestly, we were a bit jealous. I was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at the end of the Second Intifada into a special operations unit of the paratrooper brigade. From the start of my service I knew that Nablus and Jenin would be the areas for which we were responsible. Child’s play, seemingly, compared to the stories that came out of Gaza – but my child’s play. I’ll never forget the first time that I was shot at, the first Palestinian corpse I ever saw, and the fear and adrenaline during my first military operation.
My first mission involved the seizure of a Palestinian home. I had never before had the opportunity to be inside a Palestinian home, and my squad was surprised for a moment by the fact that within the home lived an entire family – spanning three generations. We woke everyone up, and took over the house. We put everyone in one room – women, men, children, and the elderly. One of the guys was stationed at the door to ensure that they didn’t get out. In the meantime, we took care of our business. I remember asking myself: what do they think about all of this? What would I do if soldiers broke into my home? But I immediately repressed these questions and carried on with the mission. As time passed, fear turned into boredom, adrenaline stabilized, and my doubts about the extent of the operational logic and its justification would return to gnaw at me. But the next day there were already new operations. This was our daily routine, and as a result, the next time I didn’t really think about how the family whose home we entered felt. My personal red moral line blurred very quickly. Every time I would tell myself – this is still okay. But it’s in the nature of red lines to move along an imaginary scale. I wasn’t bothered when we destroyed entire homes during search operations, and when my squad accidentally shot an innocent woman, and we quickly buried the incident and moved on. Today I know that my ability to distinguish whether a particular action crosses the line, didn’t really exist back then.
In pictures: Israel launches further air strikes on Gaza
What happened to me is happening to the IDF and to Israeli society at large. During Operation Cast Lead I had been a civilian active with Breaking the Silence for over a year, but I was still shocked by the incidents I heard had occurred there. I remember a friend who had taken part in Cast Lead. He returned shaken by the fact that homes of “Hamas members” were deemed legitimate targets for bombing without any relation to the risk they posed to our soldiers in the field. That was the first time he had encountered such orders during his military service. This is what he testified:
“In the morning we identified four men, aged 25 – 40, with keffiyehs, standing outside the house talking. It was suspect. We reported it to intelligence, specifying the house they were about to enter. Intelligence passed this on to the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency) who reported that this was known as a Hamas activist’s house. This is automatically acted upon. I don’t remember what we used – whether it was a helicopter or something else, but the house was bombed while these guys were inside. A woman ran out of the house holding a child, and escaped southward. That is to say, there had been innocent people inside.”
The same red line that was crossed during Operation Cast Lead has become the starting line for Operation Protective Edge. Homes of “Hamas members” were added to the IDF’s long list of potential targets in the Gaza Strip.
The politicians that send us to perform these tasks don’t even pretend to promise hope for a better future. Just further use of force and violence. Our doubts about logic and justice don’t even interest us anymore, as our red moral lines are constantly moving in the face of our reality – much like mine during my military service. 150 killed in Gaza in the first six days of the operation, the vast majority of whom were civilians, and a quarter of whom were children. Millions of Israeli and Palestinian people live in existential fear that a rocket or a missile will fall on their heads. The end of one bout of violence merely sets an alarm for the next.
The red line at which we stopped during Operation Cast Lead (2009), is the same line from which we commenced Operation Pillar of Defense (2011). The point at which we stopped during Pillar of Defense is the same place from which we’ve started Protective Edge. What will our next red line be? And when will we cross that one too? Only we can answer that question. It depends on us, and what we allow others to do in our name.
Avner Gvaryahu served in the IDF as a sergeant in special forces from November 2004-November, 2007
Manager looking forward to Legia test
http://www.celticfc.net/news/6328
The situation in Palestine/Israel is certainly a complex one and will never ever be solved or even adequately debated on football blog such as this (even with the big hitters that often frequent this blog)
For me talk of who flung the first stone or who has the biggest da, is never going to solve the issue.
I feel that for generation after generation, the leadership of both sides has repeatedly failed “the people on both sides of the conflict”
I do know one thing for sure, one thing that is absolutely certain, if the leadership of both sides continue down the same paths that they have already walked down for the next ten or twenty years, then another generation of citizens from both sides will live large parts of the lives under fear of death.
that is certain.
ellboy – i am neil lennon, ynwa.
13:43 on 27 July, 2014
gordybhoy64
The solution is to recognise the rights of good people on both sides and to do whatever is possible to help them live in peace, security and hopefully prosperity. This is all that anyone wants, however there are elements who will never accept the other side in any way shape or form. There has to be a way to free the population of Gaza from the grip of extremism, though it’s no doubt difficult with the much farther reaching elements involved with Hamas.
I really think people should read this article, as it will help give a greater understanding to why we find ourselves in this current situation.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118828/israel-palestine-war-army-knew-beforehand-gaza-was-crisis
To answer you question directly – Until people stop making excuses for extremism, then there can never be peace and I’m not just talking about in regards to this conflict.
HH!
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Thank you for your earlier post concerning the reasons why the Palestinian people became refugees.
SOAL
That you jist back from hols??????? Saw a guy walking doon Buchanan street
through the week ,he had on a rather fetching suit…lime green with daisy pattern.
…….was convinced it was yir good self. hh
I’ve just checked Newsnow Celtic there. It’s Efe’s turn to be linked with a move,. Burnley. It will probably be made up media mince . No wonder we are deemed paranoid if all our good players are constantly linked with a move away.
Is it a backhanded complement that our players are sought after, I don’t think so.
Ourselves & Dundee United seem to be the only clubs where the media tell us other clubs want players from us & United. Two of the three clubs most disliked by sticky buns.
I know the media have been on our backs for years but they are really at it now. The old bad stories about Celtic and pro hun/sevco stories sell more mantra is being really pushed to the limit now.
Daily express headline Bhoys in blunderland & the Mail, Celtic holding out for big money from Birmingham for Denny Johnstone, both headlines in Newsnow Celtic.
Instead of saying celtic reserves lose in Hamburg and Celtic expect proper developement fee for Denny Johnstone.
Jon Snow on what he witnessed in Gaza.
http://www.joe.ie/news/world-affairs/video-channel-4s-jon-snow-details-the-horror-of-gaza-in-emotional-piece-to-camera/
captain beefheart:
On that we can certainly agree, ‘blood thirsty’ though I may be…
Ritchie, I would naturally disagree, most of all with your description of Mr Beefheart.
Starry, you are entitled to your thoughts. Using dehumanising terms like ‘creatures’ is a little naughty though. That was a Nazi technique to dehumanise Jews.
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
No worries! It’s important people are informed and not influenced by the re-writing of history
HH!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
13:35
I know you didn’t mate sorry if I gave the impression you did.
The Golan heights should be handed over to UN as I said in previous post. Although because of the nature of the conflict in the region I can see why the Israeli’s see them as being so important for their self defense in a wider regional conflict.
Does anyone know if the Legia game is on the tv on wed? Cheers,
Hail hail
pabloh_aka_neil lennon
13:58 on 27 July, 2014
Does anyone know if the Legia game is on the tv on wed? Cheers,
Premier Sports
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
13:37
See my post above to OriginalSadiesbhoy
Ernie
You still skulking ?
Uch, despise that channel.
Cheers gary67
pabloh_AKA_NEIL LENNON
13:58
It’s not on terrestrial TV as far as I know but maybe Celtic TV for overseas subscibers and it is on Premier sports. Here’s the link to that source.
http://www.premiersports.tv/
Cheers Eddie
Afternoon Timland from a seriously hot hun free mountain valley.
At this rate, we won’t have a blog any more.
The agenda setting trolls have taken over.
Feck the ethos of the blog.
Ban the bastards……..cos if you don’t, we won’t be posting on CQN for another 10 years.
And that is a FACT.
Off oot where I can breath and not have to put up with the shite on here.
HH
I see the Scotland Sevens have changed their tops color from dark blue to light blue. Is this to appease some folks??
Any pics of the pen miss???