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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CRC
It’s an engine i need , would that improve my performance i have my doubts , lol , c ya thursday ;))
Agree with those saying we should attack on Wednesday. They are very ropey at the back and we should get at them at every opportunity. I strongly fancy us to win by a couple of goals.
NegAnon2
22:06 on
27 July, 2014
No I wouldn’t have but perhaps many more would have. It was a sensible move but it wasn’t an altruistic one BCW
How do you know what motivated the club into holding prices ?
ps It’s good that you still have a ticket.
Haha – you beat me to it there Pod…
Not to mention the old blessing themselves as well!
HH
Curly.
Exactly, nice to see the green, white and gold triumph at ipox….wish lineker would learn to drop the r aswel.
Celtic should beat Legia.
The reason for so much trepidation is the tie comes so early in season, they are into their league campaign we are still more than 2 weeks away, Brown & Forrest are out injured, new manager, new ideas, new way of playing.
But Celtic should beat Legia.
Turkeybhoy
None of the game we played so far I could call first squad. Two out of four we played that was closer to second squad.
Not a quiz, just a question. Was Gil Heron first black skin Celtic player? If not, who and when?
Let’s say Celtic sell
VVD £10m
Forster £10m
Mathews £4m
How much do we (CQN) believe will be reinvested in team.
Me. I’ll go £5m
KC New Contract
3 new prospective buys.
Savings account for old firm return £20m
MWD says AYE
I probably mixed up English, Polish, Latin and Suahili grammar up there.
Joe Fillipi’s
I think as Kayal enters his last year of contract he’s out of favour and on the surplus list. This will be underlined if he’s left out again, versus Legia.
NegAnon2
Your sneering superior attitude is really tiresome. You continually put forward your opinions as fact.
I asked you earlier what you thought Celtic could have/should have done unilaterally re the SFA. You referred me to your poorly assembled diatribe in the CQN magazine from 3 months ago where you didn’t address this issue. The board should have stood up to the SFA. How?
I asked if you wanted us to pay wages of over £100k per week to any player. No answer!
I agree with you that the board acted wrongly re the GB and the fans at Fir Park and Amsterdam, but you have definitely not substantiated your assertion that they are playing the “old firm” game. I can equally assert that Celtic had nothing to do with the 5 way agreement. I believe it was drawn up by Ogilvie, Rangers/Sevco, Regan and Doncaster and presented to the SFA as a fait accompli.
You have a negative outlook. Fair enough, but it doesn’t mean that the rest of us are stupid because we don’t agree.
Of course you may have some facts to support your assertions. Please share.
Does anyone know what % Celtic have agreed with GCC for council tax collection? :-)
MWD says AYE
Zbyszek
Mohammed Salim, from India, played for Celtic in 1936, before Gil Heron. Don’t know if there were any before Salim.
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan.
22:13 on 27 July, 2014
Let’s say Celtic sell
VVD £10m
Forster £10m
Mathews £4m
How much do we (CQN) believe will be reinvested in team.
Last season we re-invested about 2/3 of transfer fees brought in over the two transfer windows. That was with CL football, so if we qualify this season I would guess around the same again over the two windows, if we don’t then I’d say around £6-7m.
Zbyszek
22:12 on
27 July, 2014
Turkeybhoy
None of the game we played so far I could call first squad. Two out of four we played that was closer to second squad.
Not a quiz, just a question. Was Gil Heron first black skin Celtic player? If not, who and when?
Mohammed Salim about 1936
iPaddy McCourt at 22:10 on 27 July, 2014
Agree with those saying we should attack on Wednesday. They are very ropey at the back and we should get at them at every opportunity. I strongly fancy us to win by a couple of goals.
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I share your optimism and have already invested a few shillings on us at minus 1 goal @ 9/2. Which probably means…..
bournesouprecipe. I believe Kayal could do the broonie role for us until our captain returns from injury.However,you may be correct and his days at the club may be numbered.H.H.
Thank you, SFTB.
I talked to my friend on Friday. Simple discussion before the game Legia Celtic. I remembered Gil Heron and could not confirm if he was first.
If you are that good in answering the questions – who was first Catholic that signed for Rangers, and when?
Jobo Baldie
Given the style of play favoured by our new boss, attacking Legia will be on the cards.
Not knocking Legia in any way,but do they have any big names in the side or are they just a strong unit,i know little about them
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan.
22:15 on
27 July, 2014
Does anyone know what % Celtic have agreed with GCC for council tax collection? :-)
I think we have agreed that they give us 10% of everything raised within a 1 mile radius of Celtic Park, 3% in the rest of the City, negotiations are on going, they have proposed 8% and 2%
moonbeams wd. wee oscar’s our bhoy and kano’s our mhan.
22:13 on 27 July, 2014
£4 million.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I was a getting a bit up lifted watching the games and thinking how well it has gone, then realisation kicked in…Neganon.
Cheers mate, does your milk curdle before mines?
proof read proof read, we have proposed 10 and 3
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
Indeed. One of the most telling issues from last week’s game was our manager’s comments after the game where he was, to a certain extent, disappointed hat we only scored 1 in the second half. From memory he said that he wanted us to “destroy” teams. That impressed me.
Does anyone know when phase 2 of the ground development begins ie the store/museum/ticket office? Also what is the present situation with the vacant land next to the Velodrome that was earmarked for the Tulip Inn Hotel? Is that land still contaminated?
Zbyszek,
Not decrying your team,but Celtic have a much stronger team.Man for man.We have a team full of full Internationals.90% of the time thats enough to win matches,providing the said players perform.
Good luck for the rest of the season,but not Wednesday.
Adam is on 50k a week,geeza break
MWD – 3 mil tops IMO
Just another tim
22:26 on 27 July, 2014
2 years away as far as I am aware.
Will need to sell another few players to fund it as well I imagine :-)
HH
CRC
SFTB
For the clearance, I thought there was no chance I could ask this type of question on CQN. I hate labeling and taks about Catholic, Muslims, Protestants when it’s about football is awful.
I talked with my friend about the differences between two clubs policy, why calling Celtic Catholic club is wrong?
Joe Fillipi’s
Maybe still needed for Legia, and beyond.
A new broom springs to mind though and reckon we’ll try and avoid Samaras type situations as up to now Kayal has no chance of a new contract.
Zbyszek –
Your posts never disappoint me and glad to hear that you are carrying the Celtic Gospel and educating your friends ;-)
Jobo Baldie
He was disappointed !
You may recall I’d advocated backing Celtic at -2 goals for most of last season’s home games ? Well I got (really) greedy last week and backed Celtic -4.
Wasn’t too happy, cause destruction was there but the team didn’t want it.
CRC
lol..cheers for that…Our current business model makes complete sense now ;)
Turkeybhoy
I know, I know. It’s only football. Agree that Celtic is the favourite for going through after two games.
Lennybhoy
Leave it with me , need to speak to Charliebhoy tomorrow then it will be clearer , could you get a bus to hamilton i could pick you up from there , as i say will know better tomorrow , we’ll work something out ;))
Ah’ve Said it Fae Day Two…
That’s the Second Day that Ah saw .. Derk..
That..
Derk is a Big Feartie..no a Gal’s Blouse.. but a Common or Gairden
Big Feartie..
n..
There Is Nae Cure .. Fur a Big Feartie..
He should never get anither Game fur us.
But,he probably wull..
Ah hiv a Big Advantage over.. The Guys who Pick . Big Fearties..Like Derk..
Maloney wiz a big Feartie.. Ah bet ye dinna Know That?
but,,, He wiz..
fur..
like Ah hiv told ye ..innumerable times..
“Kojo.. Well.. He NOTICES , things.”
N..Speakin aboot . that..
Ah Notice that .. Commons Disnae show up too well Agin.. Strong Competition..like we kin Face..in Europe..
N..which Ah expect that we wull..well.. face Strong Opposition… when we meet the Poles.
Yes.. Commons, kin Score the Spectacular Goals..no Contest , Ah admit that..
But..If He hisnae goat oan his Shooting Boots..
Commons is as Much of A Hindrance than a Help..
Fur.. He has the goddammnest Knack… o making that Stray Pass..
which turns oor Attack intae a Retreat.. when that wayward Pass of His..
Lands at the Foot of a Fleet Footed Opponent.. who bears doon oan oor Goal. wi oor Defence caught ..Flat Fitted… by sucha Unexpected Turn of Events
n
Commons ,is No Alone in Hiving this “Ability” tae Turn Attack intae Defense..
Stokesy,is Anither Guy. who’s wayward Passes.. Are Responsible fur Breaking Up .. Highly,Promising … Attacks..
n oan Many Occasions.
Noo..Like Ah said. Ah widnae hiv Commons in the Team Sheet.. agin the Poles. .fur the reasons Gien..neither ,of Course.. Stokesy..n fur similar Reasons..
Those two guys are O.K. Fur .. the S.P.Lers whom we meet..during, the rest of the Season..
But..Keep ’em away frum the Continentals..
They ur a Danger tae oor Chances of winning in Europe..
In the C.L. ye canny afford tae
GIE THE BA’ AWAY.. CHEAPLY
so.. well.. DON’T!
n that Li’l Piece of Advice..is worth..
MILLIONS..
But…ONLY ,is Ye Tak heed!
Therefore.. if Ronny’s Team.. agin the Poles..
diz whit Ah hiv suggested..the Day…
Namely
No Commons
No Stokesy
n
Dont’ gie the Ba’ Cheaply.
Then Ah am Confident that we Kin Swing a Victory.. agin the Poles.
Kojo
Still,Laughin