Celtic delivered a textbook performance in securing the win in Trondheim last night. Rosenborg are bottom of the group and were effectively out of the competition before kick-off, but only a year ago Anderlecht came to Glasgow after five Champions League defeats and wiped the floor with Celtic (Anderlecht remain a poor side, accruing only two points in a weak Europa League group this season).
This was Celtic’s third away win in European group stages, but the second in two seasons. If we have genuine ambition to progress in Europe, we needed to win games like last night’s.
The contrast between this performance and the one in the same stadium in Augusts’ qualifiers was stark. In the earlier game Celtic were poor in possession, unable to impose themselves on a Rosenborg team who needed a goal to draw the tie level. Instead we ground out a 0-0. Last night, the passing, pace and control from Celtic was vastly better. Rosenborg didn’t get a sniff.
James Forrest ended a spectacular month by creating the winning goal for Scott Sinclair. Scott still had plenty to do to guide his header into the top corner of the net.
Defensively Celtic were imperious. Any anxieties were limited to what potentially could happen when the home side were able to lob a set piece into the box, but chances were limited, giving Craig Gordon one of his easiest games on the road this season.
By full time, the players looked exhausted. My mind immediately turned to Aberdeen players, who will have watched from the comfort of their homes. It is easy to say, “Go again”, but players are not machines. Sunday will be the seventh time they have climbed the domestic mountain in succession.
Legs and minds will be tired. If Celtic lift the trophy at Hampden, heroics will be required. But this is Celtic, so we have hope in our hearts.
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There’s always hope in our hearts.
H.H Mick
Did I get there?
Hail hail
Hail hail !!
H H, Hope the team are well rested for Sunday.
No. Is it not bed time chez toi MM?
And faith in our minds.
H.H Mick
CONNAIRE 12
Yes, but the bottles not empty yet 8-))
H.H Mick
Legs and minds will be tired. If Celtic lift the trophy at Hampden, heroics will be required. But this is Celtic, so we have hope in our hearts.
lots of ifs and buts there Paul67, not very convincing .
A very mature european performance, again
I can never think of an Aberdeen v Celtic Final without my mind going back to 1970 and the Bobby Davidson Final.. The absolute peak in Hunguffery . Cheating on an industrial scale .
we should be flying , no need for negativity.
News just in;
Police Scotland is to granted new powers to arrest any Celtic fan showing any signs of happiness. Speaking to the press First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said; ” We simply cannot allow our disabled citizens to be put at risk by thuggish expressions of happiness or joy . If these powers prove successful in an increased number of arrests,they will be extended to include , smugness , smirking and the whistling of happy tunes. “
Maybe it’s just me but any football player with a Celtic top on who
can’t lift himself out of his $15.000 per week stupor to give his
best for the biggest supported club worldwide needs his erse booted
doon kERRYDALE ST.
h.h mICK
Given that it’s a squad game and I envisage we’ll see 14 players then :
Bain well rested
Brown well rested
Ntcham incredibly well rested
Griffiths well rested
Gamboa (with Lustig perhpas injured ?) well rested.
Eddie and Jamesey left the field early last night.
McGregor and Tierney never need rested, Gordon never broke sweat and a nice stretch of the legs last night for Boyata and big Benkovic….
I am hoping for the regulation 2-0/3-0 finish on Sunday !
Just looked back at that post of mine, i must be drinking
the same stuff as GERRYFAETHEBRIG last night lol
H.H Mick
Very good controlled performance by our Bhoys last night. Didn’t rate any as having a bad game. One or two not at their best but everyone contributed to a welcome away win.
I think the players stayed the night in Norway and I’m sure they will be well rested. Brendan strikes me as being very meticulous in his approach and will make sure the players are ready for Sunday as he has done in every previous occasion there.
There’s a great level of confidence flowing through our team just now . Our CB paring is looking as solid as it has in years and we’re racking up the clean sheets, it’s giving us a great platform to go and win games.
Felt confident of a win in Norway and I feel the same about Sunday.
Be cool people ;))
HH
That is where we need to be more clinical. As with Saturday we should have been at least two ahead at half time. A two goal cushion allows you to play out the game much more comfortably – physically and mentally.
Sunday will be a tough game. Aberdeen will have spent the week working on their set pieces which is their best chance of winning.
Big performance required from us again.
Apollon 2-Lazio 0
“At least we have qualified for the next stage . That was a new experience for me -I’ve never seen a sleepwalker never mind seeing 11 of them walking about a football pitch ”
Simone Inzhagi -30 11 18
DBHOY
How are you my fellow downunder compadre? strange weather
round Oz at the moment, how is it at your side?
We have a 30 odd degs tomorrow after a cool few days of rain
and up north the forest fires are being followed by a tropical
storm.
Do you think the ragers are comin?
8-))))))))))))))))))
H.H Mick
Why is it I cannot understand the nonsense spouted by Logan?
Wait,is it because it IS nonsense?
—_———–__________—————
The day I was born John McPhail,Bobby Collins and Bertie Peacock score the goals against Falkirk.Playing that day Jimmy Mallan,15 years later along with my father and other fans from Belfast,there I was drinking lemonade in Jimmy’s bar in Paisley.
Memories CSC
Paul67
Champions League qualification?
Celtic are a better side by some distance than when we lost to the AEK Athens
We are also better side than Aberdeen who’ll be hoping for mibbery from ‘Son of’
Oh Hamden in the rain CSC
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No complaints here Mick.
Been in the low to mid twenties all week sunny but windy. To be 34 on Monday and apparently we’re in for a schorchio summer season.
Looking forward to the game on Sunday .
Hope you’re well
HH
DBHOY
Feel great just now but i know the morn will be tough, but i’ll
put on a brave face when i go hun hunting tomorrow, bound
to be thousands of them here after that magnificent 10 man
draw with the worst spanish team since the Armada.
Francis Drake CSC.
H.H Mick
Calm down, Paul !
Anyway, did you not say the other day that we shouldn`t give players excuses before a game?
These guys are fit enough to have fully recovered physically and Brendan , being an excellent manager, will have them mentally fresh as well.
JJ
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 30TH NOVEMBER 2018 12:56 PM
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Toilet break?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
P…pashed
P…puzzled
P…pregnant?
H.H Mick
Mick
I actually don’t mind the inevitable media love in with all things Sevco.
The higher they get built up the further they have to fall ;)))
HH
I know I said I wasn’t going to mention it again but wee Grandaughter made the local paper with her Fire Engine obsession.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/education/edinburgh-tot-obsessed-with-fire-service-to-raise-cash-for-heroes-1-4837045/amp
https://www.facebook.com/donate/1756711487771006/?fundraiser_source=external_url
MWD
bit negative Paul – get the excuses in early doors. You missed the biggest of them all – the JR Ewing factor on Sunday.
DBHOY
Yes your right, and i suppose we’re immune from the smsm here
in Oz where our bhoys are always classed as the Scottish giants
Celtic, in any sports item, but how far the huns fall? it will never be
deep enough.
H.H Mick
What happened to not giving players excuses?
3-0 to the hoops on Sunday, then we can rest in the 2nd half.
MWD
“Take me to your Aunties Hoose
I want to see your Uncle ”
Ooh Ahh CSC
THE FIRE ENGINES .
One of the best things to come out of Edinburgh-
https://youtu.be/nTRQSYxt5Ok
https://youtu.be/uk2RMe3I2BE.
Off oot – gardening to do .
BSR
Is that the letter p or a tin of peas?
#ForkHandles……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oni0tO_HN30
“ Tommy Woods, aged 17, died in Chernobyl “
Viva La Quinta Brigada
Miss-heard Celtic lyrics CSC