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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Teuchter ár lá
I went once too…but I was too red faced with embarrassment to go back.
ITS JUST LOOKING AT THE COACHES BENCH, NO DANNY MCGRAIN NOR JOHN CLARK. JOHN KENNEDY BEING THERE AS A COACH, ALSO THERE IS ANOTHER GUY THERE,WHO I HAVE SEEN MANY TIMES WITH CELTIC .BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANT THINK OF HIS NAME.
marspapa
16:03 on 27 July, 2014
Still see you on 4th August?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
marspapa
Hail, hail my mhan.
Will do my best, as always.
TSD,
If I had been looking for YOUR opinion, I would have addressed my question to you.
I did not.
I asked the man in charge…The organ grinder.
Just another tim 15:58 on 27 July, 2014
I think if John Collins had left the club it would be news on the official site by now
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Probably, but then I think of the PR howlers when NFL left.
HH
TSD
You must be one of the following:
A: A Hun
B: A Policeman
C: A Fascist
D:All of the above
You are fooling nobody
Giruy ya hun
C: A Fascist
D: All of the above
You are fooling nobody…
We all know what you are
Justanother tim, like when lenny left like?
RWE
14:49 on
27 July, 2014
quonno
I might be mistaken, but I thought a couple of months ago, PL was telling us that financially things were never better.
Apart from two seasons CL money plus the Hooper/ Wanyama income I imagine rental for Commonwealth Games will be a tidy sum.
If we cannot buy a quality player now we never will.
Here is the invite code to the EPL CQN Championship Fantasy Football League
296638-123206
You have 20 days left to register your team & join the league.
Again, if someone already does this I apologise but I have not seen anyone mention anything.
timbhoy2
16:07 on 27 July, 2014
ITS JUST LOOKING AT THE COACHES BENCH, NO DANNY MCGRAIN NOR JOHN CLARK. JOHN KENNEDY BEING THERE AS A COACH, ALSO THERE IS ANOTHER GUY THERE,WHO I HAVE SEEN MANY TIMES WITH CELTIC .BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANT THINK OF HIS NAME.
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Phew! I thought you were breaking news to us ahead of the chip wrappers! Your use of capital letters didn’t help to lessen the sense of shock.
timbhoy 2
Stop shouting… or take capslock off please.
My dear,dear,dear,friend… The Singing Detective.
Hiya,Palomine..
Great tae Greet Ye..as Alwiz..
Yes.. Ronny wiz Jist Checking his INVENTORY…
last Night…
It wiz No his intention tae Use Any of His Foist Team..
n
Rightly so.
So..He fun oot.. Jist whit he Hid,as His Disposal..
Doon At the Farm..
HIs Young Farm Hands.. didnae Play too well..
A wid Only gie Wan or two a Pass Mark..
But,it is Up tae Ronny.. tae Vet n Them.. No Me.
Tony, again he wiz Played oota Position. fur a While…
Wiz wan of the Guys who Ah thought wiz worth .. tae Hing Oan Tae..
n.. Again..
anither Puzzling Positional Factotum.. Surfaces.. wance Mair
“Why Did Ronny.. no see Fit tae Play ..Young Paul .. in his Best n Favoured Position?
The Youngster wiz Played in the OOT SIDE LEFT berth..
While everybuddy ,who is Anybuddy, knows that Young Paul
EXCELS in the OOT SIDE RIGHT berth..!
Strange..
N.. did Ye notice.. when Paul wiz brought doon In the Box..
He wiz Coming fae the OOR SIDE RIGHT Position?
Well. Ah sure Did!
Paul, is a Very Tricky wingman.. Ah hope Ronny wiz Impressed.
We wull soon find oot..??
Nice chatting Pal…as Alwiz
Kojo
Stilll Chattin
paolosboots FC before PLC, RWE
Fair point! I would hope a lesson was learned with that fiasco though.
HH
Green Man…
You Made My Day..!
GCHQ CSC
Hail! Hail !
I’m pretty disappointed, in fact angry, that this new manager, has decided to assess things before spending. It’s alarmed me too that he seems to be building his management structure in the same fashion.
Surely it’d have been better to spend cash on reports or even first impressions gleaned on Youtube ?
Oh I see its the ole personality switch
Pathetic
Fecking huns
Ger57
There’s drink and good tims , you’ll be there ;)
Lennybhoy
Defo ;)
Leftclicktic
I’m one of the wee sensitive souls and it pisses me off that these guys should be allowed to bring down the tone of the blog to such a level , i have no problem people having different views , its when they set out to offend and drag the good and respected posters to defend themselves and the blog , well it is tiresome …..sigh :(
TSD
The only person I can remember recently, that had a Marxist fixation. ..was a certain member of Police Scotland.
Giruy
justanothertim, so do I, i also think we have a very poor PR & marketing department devoid of imagination.
Robertressel I do not think celtic are siphoning off money. But they are saving up and continually depress the profits by creating resources etc. the latter can be sensible for investment and tax purposes but the real question is why are celtic saving up while people on this site are claiming we are skint?
If we are going to invest in infrastructure to increase future income then fair enough but celtic aren’t telling us anything.
Celtics communication to us is awful. But then again that’s in keeping with their general disdain for us. And the cowing of the support is connected. Getting rid of the GB was on the agenda for celtic. They don’t want us organised or vocal because we will start to question his so called strategy they have,
I think MON was right with the slow lane comment. In fact it’s so slow for us now I think we are beginning to pull over to stop!
marspapa
16:19 on 27 July, 2014
See you then mate.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
timbhoy2
15:50 on
27 July, 2014
I THINK JOHN COLLINS HAS LEFT THE CLUB,I DONT THINK HE WAS AT THE ST PAULI MATCH EITHER, AND IM SURE THE KIT MAN JOHN CLARK AND DANNY MCGRAIN ARE NO LONGER AT THE CLUB.
Opinion or do you have anything to back it up
Sir Kojo…
Agreed..!
Not Clear What Can Be Learned….
By Consistently Playing Players ‘Out Of Position’..
ie…LG And TW….
When We Are Crying Out For A. Front Two….
And We Having Wingers Like Paul McMullan….
Who Can Play On The WING…..
Hold On…..Ronnis Was A TEACHER….!
That Could Explain Much…
( As Ryecatcher Would Tell Us)
Quonno by my calculations CL 2 Years £31m & £21 respectively and £30m from players sales! All money we didn’t budget for….
I wonder in which of his other business ventures, DD wemploys a strtegy of not investing to accumulate?
Left click, I appreciate your earlier reply but the best solution is to scroll by.
Marspapa, could you please elaborate as to which posts were ‘offensive’ today?
quonno
“If we cannot buy a quality player now we never will.”
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Equating quality with price is just wrong, and spending millions on one player is gambling with other peoples money. We are barely a third tier team when it comes to spend capacity.
We have quality players. Pick your own but I have several in mind.
We will not be spending 10 million on one player, since there is no realistic asset management benefit in that for us.
Only young players with years of potential would attract Celtic at that price, and no young player of that value would be interested in coming to Celtic: he would be courted by other bigger clubs that could pay him more money, offer him greater exposure and thus sponsorship etc.
For several years we have been trying to reinvent ourselves as a different type of club, rather than compete with those who spend next years money on extravagant name players who usually come with (hidden) baggage.
Ronny Deila’s appointment is part of that continuum IMHO.
It’s a Brave New World
Huxley CSC
I wonder in which of his other business ventures, DD employs a strategy of not investing to accumulate?
We have plenty of money, hence we should invest. Otherwise we will stagnate. The current top 11 needs to be strengthened.
SD, interesting link about Ireland.
setting free the bears for res. 12 & oscar knox but saying no to cqn racists
Thanks for the reply.
Although however well intentioned your post was, it is clear to me that anti semitism is alive and well on CQN and no matter where it raises it’s ugly head it must be confronted and not merely dismissed. No matter how you want to slice it, accusations of genocide and comparing Israel to the Nazi’s is incredibly offensive and dangerous. It is rhetoric such as this that fuels religious hatred and breeds racial intolerance. Many try to hide behind the mantra by saying ‘I’m not anti Jewish I’m anti Zionist’ when in reality their anti semitism comes through all too clearly. Turning a blind eye to such bile is for me not an option and I would hope it would not be an option for any decent minded human being
As for providing the Palestinians with a similar missile defence as Israel’s Iron dome.
I have a better idea, how about everyone recognises the true threat here and stop making ridiculous excuses for Radical Islam. What will it take for people to wake up to this threat, a 1000 9/11’s perhaps? As soon as the world unites, condemns this poison and quits propping up the bad guys, then the sooner missile defences will no longer be required.
‘But, in your anger, you committed one greater offence, when you jibed that your opponents would prefer that Israel turned off “their” shield so that casualties would be equal on both side. Did it not occur to you that most of us (the bloodthirsty Marxists that we are in Captain B’s Orwellian use of language) would prefer the simpler solution to make casualties equal? Namely, we should pay for a missile defence system for the Palestinians in the same way we paid for the defence system used by the Israelis’
It is clear to me that some on this blog do revel in points scoring & I am sure these same people would feel much better if Israel was without their iron dome. The point here is not about the number of poor souls lost but the intent behind actions taken. Talk of genocide is just insane and disgusting, these same people never mention the open mandate of Hamas, which calls for the total destruction of a country and it’s people.
I wonder why that is eh?
paolosboots FC before PLC
It has been that way for a long time too. One solution would be to hire the appropriate professionals who can improve both departments but as we all know spending money is not top of our agenda.
Just Another Tim @ 1612
Thank you. I will join this league as the other CQN one I had seems to have disappeared this time.
Ger57 I have outlined my views on what celtic would do in the CQN magazine. It’s pretty straightforward. You might even agree with some of it. Have a read.not hen tell me if my expectations are wildly optimistic.
Incidentally dermost 6% return is a very good return for him. And he hasn’t lost a penny of his investment either. A billionaire owner whose only goal is to make money from celtic. Fab.
Split personality posters…you are fooling nobody.
Huns, policemen, fascists, churnalists
Your discourse betrays you.
Half-wits.
Im watching you
Quonno I have watched the last 3 matches on celtic tv.and john clark and danny mcgrain were not with the squad. and for the guy to ask for me to wake up and change the caps ,there I have done it.
Big cup winners. Ronny has to qualify for the CL. He needs to maximise his chances of that. But hasn’t. So if he has the money (which he hasn’t) then IMO he is doing a poor job.
It looks like the current Celtic strategy is no transfers in our out until we know wither we have qualified or not for the CL group stage.However,if Legia Warsaw put us out and it is not beyond the rules of possibility that this will happen.We will sell two out of three players Forster, Van Dyke and Ambrose and Rony will have to start rebuilding to win the SPL and get another crack at qualifying for the CL group stages 12 months from now.H.H.