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.
The CQN Annual will be available next week, both online and at one or two selected retail outlets. There’s a cracking image on the cover of a goal celebration from a recent goal….
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T T Grossman
Is that the guy who did the thru the door prog?
whitecrook tim,
My bhoy knew Paul Milne well & has nothing but good things to say about him – he seems to have been a remarkable young man.
pabloh
I think if we get the score draw and Barca win we are guaranteed last 16 .
I did not expect much from the group stages to be honest so it has been great so far and to experience the game against Barca on our 125th birthday was amazing so I am already well pleased .
We have a young inexperienced team and manager at this level so no matter what happens in the last two games I will have enjoyed the ride .
The bhoys are already heroes in my eyes
hail hail
KK (previous thread),
I didn’t think that you were responsible for the false basis of the questions that you used – sorry if I didn’t make that clear. I wouldn’t presume to “clarify” or otherwise “improve” your thinking.
I agree that nuclear weapons, whether “bigger & better” or “original unimproved” aren’t the answer to anything & wouldn’t help an over-populated world, if such a thing existed. I also think that to blame the Palestinians for their own plight is a cruel slander. However, I still disagree on the “concentration camp”: the farmer whose situation you described lives in an unfree country, but he’s not confined to a camp or prison.
If I remember rightly, we had an amicable exchange re Mynah Bird some time ago: you obviously feel the urge to take a pop at him – I don’t, at least until I read an offending post by him. You & I may not agree about everything, but we don’t have any problems with that.
We should and, hopefully, will give Benfica the utmost respect.
There is too much at stake for it to be otherwise.
A score draw and we qualify for the last 16.
Quite sure Neil and the coaching staff will have them fired up.
HH!!
philvisreturns
12:47 on
15 November, 2012
BTW:
CHARLES GREEN is an anagram of RANGERS LEECH.
Coinkydink? You decide. (thumbsup)
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BLEEDIN’ NORA ………THAT is amazin’……… LOL
GULAG is an Afrikaans word! You’d be Boered to find out the origins! Wonder who it referred to?
HH
“They made significant contributions to the Soviet economy in the Stalin period and served as a source of free labour….”
Ah, Ian Duncan Smith has been reading up on this as his & Lord Fraud’s Mandatory Work Scheme bites ever harder along with the sanctions for those on JSA.
The new Mediaeval era gets underway as we bypass several centuries of social progress and hurtle backwards to serfdom…..digital by default though it may be.
ASonOfDan
IMHO, hoops is for the off either in january or july, failure to agree contract thusfar would suggest thats the liekly outcome.
i like him and would keep him if possible
however, i would sell him now rather than loss him later, actually that statement could go against the names of most all our team
I have been to Palestine a few times, was in the Golan heights a few days before a group of unarmed civilians walked across the border in a symbolic attempt to reach their homes which their parents were driven out of after 67 war. The unarmed civilians were shot down like dogs. Israel maintains an illegal maritime blockade of Gaza preventing food, medicine & building supplies reaching the besieged population. It pays lip service to a Palestinian State but keeps building Settlements on Palestinian Lands, making any kind of viable State totally impossible. I am not anti Jewish and totally accept the State of Israel but the way they are treating the Palestinians is utterly disgraceful and unfortunately the troubles stemming from Palestine is the catalyst for all the terrorism and violence which besets the Muslim world. An eye for an eye and we all end up blind.
Jude2005,
Exactement. And his big bro Albert managed Bob Dylan.
Mibbee.
Zombies on a rampage, the scent of blood making their shotgun nostrils twitch as they seek out that which they crave…..the flesh of R.T.C.
They like nothing better.
Apparently.
Get THEM huckled.
Murdering Palestinians, no matter how much you dislike them, is surely an odd way of kicking off your election campaign?
Hi Ghuys, Salve salve;-
Young Tony Watt Contract extension? A great piece of business for Celtic and young Tony.
I really believe he will develop into a truly great football player.
On another topic, I hope that during tomorrow’s AGM, the subject of referee development and oversight is raised, as it is vital IMO that the whole system in this country has to be completely reformed with refereeing performance appraised by panel whose independence and competence are beyond question. It is also imperative that below par refereeing performances lead to sanctions on the pepatrators.
Greenwells PS Spot on article regarding Benfica Paulus LXVII
Tabula rasa
I hope nothing happens to the lawyer named on a hun website.
I had a look at some of the things said on it, and if anything happens to to the man, I think the person who runs that particular website will not be buying any shares in SevcoFC as he could be taken to the cleaners for the comments he’s allowed stay up.
Of course that’s if the new laws on posting offensive material on the internet are taken seriously.
SPF
ROW Z – Let Celtic Flourish by the Cleansing of the ‘den!
Spill please!
Entire interweb sez it’s a Soviet-era acronym…
Re my last post –
What I should have said was that if we come away from Lisbon with a score draw, and Spartak fail to beat Barca in Moscow we will qualify for the last 16.
HH!!
SPF
Is it on the ff site?
On Palestine, I’ve never been, a friend of mine, a surgeon goes over regularly and works for free training young surgeons, generally helping out.
He had a nine month pregnant woman in his care, she was in labour.
They had to get her to another hospital, they had to go through a checkpoint.
Three hours they were kept there, no pain relief, no medical facilities, and no reason for the delay, just an ill equipped ambulance. Luckily both baby and mother survived, but it was luck.
On another occasion he had to take another injured man through a checkpoint, again, long delay, not so lucky this time. Again no reason given for the delay.
This friend of mine is so laid back its yesterday, until you talk to him about Palestine, not the politics, the needless suffering of a people.
This is state terrorism in my view, and his.
pflan76
14:52 on 15 November, 2012
Celtic are 200-1 to win the competition, I’ve stuck a tenner on it!
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You could have 500-1 at the start- maybe some got more
And is it not strange that the greatest flag wavers of them all, the huns & orcs of Bigotry Inc., who despise the tricolour of Eire with a passion as it represents much of what they purportedly hate (and I mean ‘hate’) , are happy to have the star of David wave around in their nail-bent agglomeration of approved symbols fluttering above their pointy wee heads; even stranger when you consider how Israel was founded, but then again, wasn’t that region once seen as the perfect mirror model of Ulster?
History is bent and shaped in all sorts of ways, but none so twisted as that envisaged by the true-blue worshippers at the altar of craven idiocy while they wrap themselves in the butcher’s apron in misguided and sad glorification of all that is wrong with the doctrine of ‘might is right’.
You’d think they’d have learned a thing or two by now. Obviously not.
Therefore, they are doomed to repeat themselves. So, in the spirit of cordial internationalism, I wish them: encore adieu.
Stupid huns.
Tony Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Good evening friends. Everybody hunky-dory this evening?
wishIcouldbelikeTonyWattfafafafafafafafaKinksCSC
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman is terrific on background.
Great Day In the Morning!
Tony, is oors fur.. Four More Years.. Jist like President O
and…
Ah couldn’t be Happier..(Tae Avoid Confusion… Kojo,is Talkin’ aboot, Tony, there,Folks!…ed)
Ah dinnae feel sae Sanguine. re.. the Hooper n the Wanyama.. Negos.. which , at this time.. could be described .. as..”No-Going”… rather than.. “On Going”.
NA.. Ah fear the woist.
Not tae worry..
Atajic, is Noo .. coming in tae his. Inheritance..
This lad.. wiz signed THREE YEARS ago.. but, wiz severely.. held back by.. well.. se vere injury.. He is noo.fully recovered..and is Showing us that he is a Natural Born
Striker.
If Ah wur King. Ah wid Fast track him intae the Foist Team Pool..if Neil hiznae done that ,already..
and..
Team him up wi’ Tony…
and .. tell… Hoops ..he kin Go..
fur a Nice Big Fee,of course…
Wanyama?
Ah figure he wull Go in January.
We wullnae turn doon.. Twelve Million, fur him.
fur.. when ye think aboot it..
We staund tae Earn.. Twenty Million fae oor Euro Exertions. so faur..
And couple that wi..
The Fee Wee Goat fur .. Ki..
well. that comes tae.. Say. Twenty Six Million..
and if we get..
Twenty Million .. fur the Wanyama, Hooper. Combo.
Why..
Heck.. noo we are talkin’ aboot.
Serious Dough!
FORTY SIX MILLION!
Oh! Nelly! That Maks Ma Hert Sing!
Ah kin see that . .. Oor Wise Strategy..o’
“Grab ’em Young.. Let ’em Mature.. and as we wish them weel..in their Further Endeavours.. Rake in the Dough.. if they ur a Success.”
That kinda Dough. .Maks It Awe Worth the Bother..’
Right?
Course, Ah am Right..
Ah always Am!
Kojo
Laughin’..like Heidi.
ScotPatsFan-I read last week that no one has been convicted of any web hate crimes under Salmonds new law.
Jobo
JamCSC ya numpty!
George Square closed chaos
Fairy Lights CSC
Kojo : your financial prognostications are heartening.
Pray tell, what will the scores be v The Sheep, and v Benfica? You seem to have a Cassandra like knack of predicting these things of late, and a nice wee double would go a long way to paying for my next trip to see Celtic.
Yours, in hand-rubbing expectation.
: > )
The sausage roll story means that’s the last time I’ll ever be polite to a policeman – ever.
TootingTim
TT interesting guy speaking on the subject is Miko Peled, there’s an hour long video of him speaking in Seattle, worth a listen (Information clearing house) and other sources…
Salmond is a knucklesqueezing Jambo of the luj-luvvie persuasion. He only holds the orange constituency close to his cold and clammy chest.
Expect nothing from the wee dictator.
Kojo, When does Hooper’s present contract run out ? , Obviously if he won’t sign a new one and the present one is running out we would be left with no option but to cash in on him, but I for one would be extremely sorry to see him go. Re Big Vic there is no way Lenny should let him go for 12 million, there is no hurry with him, he will increase in value over next 18 months, we will get our 20 million then and a lot of Football in the meantime.
Jude
RM
I got the link from the ‘Pie and Bovril’ website.
If you want the lawyer’s name, email me at scotpatsfan@gmail.com, or, since you live in C’bridge, I’ll meet you at Tescos if you want!!
SPF
JohnnyClash –
If you know your history
BadaBing
Maybe if someone posted a pic of a poppy burning you’d get your doors kicked in!!
SPF
http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/company-news/ag-barr-signs-merger-agreement-with-britvic.19419310
As long as the shareholders are happy that’s ok then!
HH!!
Recommendation for everybody who is discussing Israel/Palestinians topic.
I see many think that the Israelis came back to the land in 1948 or couple of years before that date. It’s worth to read about years before, not only couple but tens and hundreds.
Maybe you will find that the Israelis lived that all long time since thousands of years. Maybe there were more Jews than Arabs there in times when you think there was no one with Jewish roots?