After two highly productive performances against Barcelona confidence will be high, but it is worth remembering that Benfica earned a 0-0 draw at Celtic Park on Champions League match day one, and will have no fears for Tuesday.
After that game in September Celtic were favourites to finish bottom of the group. Barca managed a slim 3-2 at home to Spartak after a late surge, placing them top of the group while the Russians were rightly encouraged. Benfica earned a valuable away point without being greatly troubled by Celtic. Indeed, the half time video analysis from the Uefa technicians looped repeatedly on one incident, a Benfica penalty claim.
That scenario has changed. Celtic sit second top but a win would see Benfica match them on points and go second on the head-to-head. Make no mistake, despite Celtic’s heroics against Barcelona, Benfica expect to be second in the group on Tuesday evening. They are rightly favourites.
We are now tantalisingly close to the knock out stages of the Champions League but two of the most difficult games of the season lie ahead. The best thing Celtic can do is show Benfica as much respect as they showed Barcelona. Benfica are not quite as dangerous as the Catalans but they are more than capable of exploiting any gaps in the Celtic defence. Treat them as Barcelona-lite and we might even collect our second win in this tournament away from home.
The Andrea Kearney Fund have a signed Celtic jersey available for auction on eBay. The fund, in memory of Andrea, assists families of women who are diagnosed with cancer while pregnant. Since Andrea died, aged 41, four years ago, over 50 families have been helped.
You can keep an eye on the auction here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHKioBDWl0
Ooh Aah to be Ah Samaras.
petec @ 03:50
Canamalar is as free thinking as we all could hope to be, imo.
It shows. Good mhan.
FFS, hadn’t heard this song before like this, really enjoying it amigo :)))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcfUjIguSs&feature=related
SDJ, cool as…… :))
Bmm chk a chk, Bmm chk a chk
Wow, that was a nervous four minutes of extra time. I know it’s irrational but when I watch it, I still keep thinking they will equalise.
nutterdotcom.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
03:51 on 16 November, 2012
The Lord, when you totally believe, puts people in your path that he means to put there for a reason.
I am Truly Blessed to be able to look forward to go into work and listen to a man who has no FEAR of being ridiculed about having God as his best Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtExxkW0ws
Anyone with a FF login do me a favour and share yon link, under the guise that Mr BJ is a loving hun?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcfUjIguSs&feature=related
FFS, what a great bit of music from Petec – but mischief can be achieved as well with the halfwits.
FFM
Not up Doric way. But have very sharp elbows¿ Allegedly.. Proper Doric fowk would consider me Sassenach…
Hoopsman and Fortune Favours did yous think all this up by yourselves from the couch …or have you actually been to the middle east. Were you at the game callers : )
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
03:52 on 16 November, 2012
petec @ 03:50
Canamalar is as free thinking as we all could hope to be, imo.
It shows. Good mhan.
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If I was having an Atheism is bad rally, which it is, I’d have Mr C right at the front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gREiJhtBPxw
;)
petec @ 03:59
I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPi2r2j70Zc
Hoopsmon isnae a patch on Fortunes Favours…….. Fifth Amendment. If I could post a tune or two I would plead. My lappie is lapsed and my phone’s bordering on bored. FFM is your Dj the night.
Mr C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGyON4-IAQ
Mix for the connoisseurs…. Con…..
? Everything as ol Bill Cooper said.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
04:10 on 16 November, 2012
petec @ 03:59
I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPi2r2j70Zc
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It is easy to watch this rather than Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad makes me squirm at the brutality.
TY FFM for this link, it is exceptional.
Taurangabhoy
Noooooo!
But you do right to remind us of our humility.
hoopsmon,
behave yerself !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULMQGLmipjU
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7yiUxCmqrI
I know FFM is Strong!!!!!
FFM superb reply right back at me . Too right behave yerslef Petec : )
petec @ 04:22
Hells Fire !!
Thanks amigo :)))
FFM if you look through the audio links, and it is best going from 2005 forward, bottom of page. As I said, cherry pick the audio files as they are life changing sonics. Trust me on that.
Taurangabhoy
Sorry amigo.
Were you closer to the “game”?
I’ve got good friend who “served”,m ranging in age from 20-50.
It’s bad stuff amigo. Share your thoughts, you can do so here without criticism. There are fholks here screaming the Celtic Dream while raking in pennies from the middle east.
FFM thanks for making me laugh. I might come on later and just check out choons from fellow celts of all ages and places on a Pablo like Friday night. Been a crap week for me . I still have a job but many of my hard working colleagues don’t. I hate this right wing wind down into depression economic management, reminds me too much of Thatcher and the reasons that I ended up in Israel myself many decades ago. The rich get richer the poor get the picture. sucks. So until Celtic beat Benfica I am going to be feeling the way I do. I won’t reply again tonight not good company.
Taurangabhoy
04:26 on 16 November, 2012
FFM superb reply right back at me . Too right behave yerslef Petec : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQgKcv7V-g
Backsliding Complimentary.com
You just cannae argue with Music like that.
Estadio Nacional moved on a lot earlier than me to the full appreciation of ALL Music.
OOH AAQAAAQQQQAAAQQAQA SAMARAS.
FFM and Taurangabhoy
As I’m a wee bit chap the door and run away on CQN (aka Lurker) – Here’s my tune for the nightshift….and people around the world.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+legend+redemption+song&oq=john+legend+red&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0l5.9077.39012.0
Hope linke works from bored mobile…..
FFM its more complicated than it looks . The baddies aren’t always the baddies. I was in Kiriat Shmona with a young Morrocan Jewish lad stayed with his family with my girlfirend and his who were friends. They had been seriously persecuted and kicked out to Israel . Live or die easy enough choice and one I saw with many Arab Jews. Hizbollah were sending in mortars to the schools from the Golan heights.The holy land is much smaller than you think so its like firing rockets from a hill into a school. Now what would you do if your kids were at that school. This was well into my time there. I arrived an avid Marx and John McLean reader with my Arafat hat on and reality took a few chunks off me. Long time ago so believe me I am no Zionist or have any idea about what todays Israelis are doing. Somehow I don’t think too much has changed and it remains complicated. Don’t believe everything you read or watch on the BBC news eh Petec : )
Taurangabhoy
Why get so down?
You are right, and here we all agree.
Shape up ya big gay bhoiy !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGF_ZP1YKPI
Ooops! This one….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUndHXaTa8
Typed that with my elbows!
Celtic are on the verge of displacing the 2nd Seed.
Aberdeen, will hopefully play Brilliant football and if they beat us, good luck to them.
Lisbon is the real focus for every player, whether they are playing Saturday or Tuesday.
Benfica do not get beat at home.
Benfica have everything to play for.
Celtic will be complacent after doing what they done against the Greatest ever Club side.
Bring it on.
Time for the heroes.
I have a really funny feeling we will end up TOP of our group. Yes I have had a few vodkas.
Spartak have one of the fastest forward/wide midfield lines in the World and they will expose Barca IMO.
If we need anything from the last game, it will be the toughest game mentally because they are probably one of the best counter attacking teams on the planet.
Taurangabhoy
FFS, apols for my last post looking like a , well, you know.
But it’s important experiences like your own are drawn out, and publicised.
The majority of us know that the wars are illegal, that’s about it, and the kids are fighting it….it’s us that are letting them down imo. Aye, we are, and we have !
hoopsmon #
FFS, ?!?! Am sorry, but for me that is pure pish.
Amigo, keep the chat going !!!! It’s normal to have discussion !!
John Cougar Mellencamp :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv6awFiSO0Y
Jobs are scarcified, and as Kevin Bridges says…..
Only a matter time before we are paying a quid for chomp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeyajsCZej8
FFM and Taranguabhoy
I specified Palestine earlier as the nation being exploited in the stealth for wealth game being played out. In reality it affects practically the whole of the Middle Eastern bit of the map that few people take the time to even look at. The west, in particular, is dumbing down its social/health care and education systems to facilitate the faux wars that lead to the suffering on both ‘sides’. Knowledge will always be a necessity where care needs to be taught.
God bless HH.
Taurangabhoy
Apols, I should be clearer.
Your voice should be HEARD !.
FFM
Appreciate your honesty!!! Are you a diplomat?
hoopsmon
04:41 on 16 November, 2012
Ooops! This one….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUndHXaTa8
Typed that with my elbows!
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What a voice, beautiful…..
Still no a patch on the finest.
Thanks for the Link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyjajEpFnUA&feature=fvst
petec
Agreed and thanks. I reckon that he’d have been given a nod from The Finest for that.
hoopsmon
Another point rammed home !
HH Amigo !
Brilliant.
Keep fighting the status quo.
Trust NO ONE,
No matter how attractive and relevant they make it.
No matter WHAT they offer.
There is too much badness behind them.
Trust the honest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbiRDNaDeo
One of the Best EVER youtubes. And I Swear on Young Aidan’s life when I say that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Ta8ekk9k8
FFM
I manage to sound something like him when I’ve got a cold – however,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo