This afternoon’s friendly against Tottenham Hotspur gives Ronny Deila a dilemma. Last weekend he played a second string against St Pauli, but with things going so wrong in Warsaw on Wednesday, the pressure is on to pull a game plan together which will work at Murrayfield.
Our other concern is that the squad, without Ambrose, Brown and Forrest, is already looking threadbare. We simply can’t afford an injury to afflict Commons, Griffiths, Stokes, Johansen, van Dijk, Matthews, Lustig or Izaguirre.
The suggestion was put to me this week that we should play Lustig with van Dijk in central defence on Wednesday. Lustig can play there, but would Ronny trust them on such an important occasion without a warm-up game?
If I was taking a risk with first-team players this afternoon it would be to pair these two. If we’re going to get the required result on Wednesday the most important area of the team to get right is the defence.
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Spurs will think they are a great team now. Don’t think they’ll finish in the top four in the EPL.
summa of sammi….
16:32 on 2 August, 2014
They were supposed to be…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Magic Charlie Gold Flynn!
Well done Charlie Flynn and the blessing at the end just rounded it off…:)
Turkeybhoy
Speak to the young bhoys who played. Ask them if they share your over-heated reaction. I’ll take their word for it.
Spurs spent £105m last summer and sold £115m worth of players they claim (They say they got £85m from Real fro Bale and £6m from Seattle for Clint Dempsey: do US clubs pay that much in transfer fees?)
After a good pre_season we had Legia and now this embarrassing to anyone with a bit of pride in their club.
squire danaher
16:32 on 2 August, 2014
Agreed Squire would like to see those 2 fight again both excellent boxers
I do not care if it was the youths or second string or it was “only” a try out for whatever reason,this is a humiliation for people like my son living and working in London.
The game was billed as Celtic without any qualification,and will be quoted as such.
Nice walkway Peter you’ll soon be able to see every slab,every week.
hank eh?
Brilliant interview with Charlie Flynn on BBC fair play to ya wee man
Well what did we learn today ? Ambrose before he was ordered off gave away a penalty and passed to a Spurs player during the game nine times before he was shown red.This guy surely must go he is never Celtic class.I cant see the youngsters learning much from the game which certainly wont have enhanced our reputation whatsoever.Craig Gordon couldnt have done much about any of the goals the game was a complete miss match. H.H.
Flynn coming across very well in post fight interview
Smashing wee fella :D
Wee Charlie’s interview is magic.
Brilliant interview with Charlie Flynn, lol. Subtitles needed for darn sarf.
Deila has a history of developing youth and I hope he continues that with us.
aye, with the youth team, no the first.
Conlin medal ceremony up next
hankray
I have a lot of pride in my club and i am not in the slightest embarrassed. I wasn’t crowing when our youth beat Liverpool last year either.
Feel sorry for Efe who was actually trying to lead these youngsters by example and, though he made mistakes, their pen. award was a joke and his sending off was harsh too.
I’m off to watch the CGs and will leave the site to those who want to put the boot in and feel bad
excathedra44
16:36 on 2 August, 2014
Very good point rest assured talk sport presenters will harp back to it numerous times over the coming years
Tell your son to ask the Spurs & Arsenal fans why they have no star above their crest – that’s what my kids do !!! Normally shuts them up
hankray 16:35 on 2 August, 2014
“After a good pre_season we had Legia and now this embarrassing to anyone with a bit of pride in their club.”
Alternatively, some people see it for what it is. A bunch of boys well beaten by a much stronger Spurs team.
I know none of them will will attempt to gloat about it. No one gives a feck.
What a brilliant interview from wee Charlie Flynn.
A bhoy who clearly appreciates his gift.
Does the writer of this article not read the papers,or football pages of the net
almost all the first team are staying at home only Pukki and balde are in the squad
and weve just been humped 6-1 by a full strength spurs squad,
At least it should shut up all those wanting us to play the youngsters,as I have known since the 90,s most scottish players are second rate,and we were always better with good foreigners ,just name me one great scottish player to play for us since possibly Lambert,all our stars have been foreign and thats the only way forward,until scottish youth get off the bevvy,and take sport seriously,and Balde sent off for second game in a row,funny not sdent off at all till this new diddy management team arrives,last season we were very good defensivley and now were a siv
Changes at the top needed now,someone on the board must own up weve made a big mistake and get rid the disarterouS duo ASAP
God has blessed Wee Charlie Flynn!
Gaun yersel wee man. Great honest interview. :)
Embarassing. No idea why we play these games.
Legia play Gornik Zabzre at 7.45pm tonight. Maybe they`ll pick up a couple of injuries….
A lot of blessing going on with the boxing gold medalists, few tellys getting lobbed out the windows again…:)
Steinreignedsupreme. Thats where we are at now is it no gives a Feck ? Well fella maybe you dont but I do. H.H.
A new hero for our country in Charlie Flynn, what a gracious wee character he is and a credit to his family, that interview was immense. Well done son.
Ayrshire is Green and White
Doomed.
Not quite. Celtic reserves lose. So what?
A friendly. So what?
Worth losing pride in the club that gave us Larsson, Dalglish, McGrory, Stein, Tully?
Those of a permanent positive persuasion….
You’ll do well to find anything positive from that nonsense
Did we make a pound from it ….job done then
A few pound up and our reputation dismissed further …EPL fans won’t know it was a scratch team …they’ll look at Wednesday and today and wonder why CFC have fallen so far
CFC …a shambles unless youre an accountant
No one anywhere with any sense cares what other teams are getting up to in preseason.
The players will go away and think about what went well and what wasn’t so good. They’ll ask themselves if they could have done some things differently to prevent Spurs’ attacks, and they’ll work on those things in training and in future games.
If you never come across technically superior players who move the ball around quickly then you’ll never know that some of the thingsthat you’re doing are dangerous.
That doesn’t just apply to the youngsters. It’s a problem for our senior players too, who are mostly good players but don’t get tested enough at the highest level.
Should have said. I hang about with a lot of Tottenham fans, and I know none of them will will attempt to gloat about it. No one gives a feck.
Charlie Flynn what a great interview smiled all the way through it awright man
MickTT
I thought the wee guy was priceless …made me smile after a miserable afternoon with the horses and fitba
PFayr. A shambles right enough. H.H.
Sipsini
Tellies long gone oot the windaes – aw thae Timmy names representing NornErrn and pickin up medals, Australians called Moloney as well ha ha
HT
Flynn boxes out of my brothers old gym Pheonix in Dalmarnock
Till later all
Let’s not forget that Effe got great reviews from the pundits during the World Cup for Nigeria.