Udinese were pushed all the way tonight but hold on for a point that was enough to get them through to the knock out round of the Europa League at Celtic’s expense. Gary Hooper gave Celtic the lead but Antonio Di Natale equalised in time added on at the end of the first half.
The game was only six minutes old when Georgios Samaras extended his telescopic legs and moved beyond Benatia to the edge of the Udinese box but the defender dived in front of the Greek striker to con the referee into awarding a free kick.
Udinese should have taken the lead in 12 minutes when Scott Brown was careless with a cross-field pass which was intercepted. The Celtic defence were caught moving forward and had left Di Natale in acres of space but his lob missed the target.
Gary Hooper was the next sinner 10 minutes later. Udinese had no answer to the probing of Samaras and James Forrest. The former beat two players and slid an inch perfect pass inside the full back for Hooper to collect 16 yards from goal. Unfortunately he failed to find the target with what at that time looked like being the best chance of the game.
Celtic opened the scoring on 28 minutes when Samaras rampaged down the left and sent a dangerous cross between goalkeeper and defence. Handanovic punched the ball against his own defender and was left stranded when it rolled to an unmarked Hooper three yards from goal. The Englishman rolled the ball over the line to put Celtic ahead.
With 45 minutes already played Samaras again rampaged down the left but possession was lost as Celtic were reluctant to pour forward seconds before half time. Udinese moved the ball quickly up field and a fortunate break of the ball allowed them to catch the Celtic defence flat footed. Cha was wrong side of his player who crossed for Di Natale to finish. It was an unfortunate break for Celtic who had the better of the first half.
Udinese stepped up the pace after half time and enjoyed their best period of the game. Fraser Forster made three saves within as many minutes just after the hour mark. Ten minutes later a sharp passing move provided Asamoa with a gilt edged chance from 10 yards but he turned the ball against the post with Forster stranded but this signalled the end of the home team’s pressure.
Celtic came close to taking the lead again on 74 minutes when Cha DuRi stretched to volley from outside the box. His shot struck the post with Handanovic unable to reach it. The ball rebounded off the goalkeeper, who landed on the ground, and spun back towards goal, but Handanovic recovered in time to catch it on the line.
Greek referee, Koukoulakis, did not have a good game, mistook Cha for Scott Brown and incorrectly booked the Korean. 18 minutes later he booked Cha again but had clearly received a message from an assistant informing him of his earlier mistake, leaving Cha bemused and relieved to survive his second yellow card.
Celtic were pressing for the goal but with 10 minutes remaining a slip by Daniel Majstorovic set Di Natale clear. Fraser Forster then had the most impressive 6 seconds of his career. The keeper made himself a big target and saved Di Natale’s shot but he had change direction quickly as the ball broke free on the right. A cross was swiftly dropped onto the head of the unmarked Di Natale 8 yards from goal but Forster changed direction one more time to save again.
The match finished with Celtic camped inside the Udinese box. The ball broke to Ki inside the six yard box from a Charlie Mulgrew corner but his shot was blocked. Fraser Forster came forward for two further corners. From one, Daniel Majstorovic flashed a header goalward but an Udinese defender raised his arm to the ball, however, the referee failed to award a penalty.
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macjay1 for Neil Lennon says:
16 December, 2011 at 10:53
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire says:
16 December, 2011 at 10:48
Meet the new NAZI Celtic support
freedom of speech RIP
What`s the problem with that ,pally.
I.R.A. Support for the nazis in the second world war.
Had you forgotten?
Or were you unaware?
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Revisionist history time again i see. The IRA supported the Nazis- get a grip the IRA sought aid from the Germans who were fighting the British. Fact – many IRA volunteers fought against the Nazis in Spain. Remember the old adage The enemy of my enemy is my friend- Didn’t Britain Arm and collude with a a regime as bad as the Nazis – Stalin’s Russia, didn’t The SAS train Bin Ladas’ group when they were fighting the Soviets. Didn’t the British Government arm Saddam when Iraq was at war with Iran – shall i go on. Get your facts right
Well thats our European adventure behind us for another year last night was a good efffort by the Bhoys but doesnt gloss over the fact that if Sion hadnt broken the rules we would not have been in the group stages.We need to learn from our campaign and be ready for next seasons European games.We must now return our focus to the SPL the January transfer could be quite interesting with the Poundland team perhaps loseing one or two of there better players of course we may also lose one or two players but due to the size of our squad I think we are in the better position we also might add one or two as well so as I said interesting times ahead.Unfortunately I think we will continue to be in trouble with UEFA as a small group of fans will continue to fluant the rules and if there not carefull this could cost Celtic a lot of money unfortunately I do not know the answer to the problem UEFA are unlikely to back down and neither are the fans.H.H.
goldstar10 says:
16 December, 2011 at 12:23
Went onto the DR site to find out what this was all and you are correct children indeed. They were just down from me and and as I said earlier wouldn’t serve them in a pub.
Did the SNP support the Nazis?
PL: it overshadowed a fantastic performance. We have to get these people out of #Celtic park.
PL: these people are not #Celtic supporters and we will weed them out. We are embarrassed.
Is Macjay another of Kojo’s aliarses?
Greenjedi
Lots of Goosing going on in my office
Sounds like Lawwell’s worried about his bonus.
‘These people are not Celtic supporters’
Arsehole.
They paid to go there. They’re not screwing a million quid a year out of the support.
All over Glasgow Billboards
“Celtic face new UEFA threat”
As many have and will say, hope Celtic ban the banner makers.
Yep that banner will be really offensive to an organisation such as Uefa. Tsk. Some people need to get a life. It was a wee bit childish, but that’s it. Dearie me..
As for the flare/smoke bomb, i’m sure the Italians would have been mortified.
I mean why take a wee bit of smoke in, when you can do this!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Nu6HKVSmk
brimmer
new article posted.
Message to PL
Celtic didn’t play at home last night and it is possible those responsible wouldn’t go to Celtic Park.
RogueLeader 16 December, 2011 at 12:28:
I think that Peter Lawwell has lost touch with the fans here. I think he is more likely to be chased out of Celtic than the guys who spent a large percent of their income to support Celtic in Italy. If he makes this a battle, he will lose.
Paul67 et al
Some really good ties in the Europa League draw, (Stoke versus Valencia) which makes it all the more disappointing, despite a good campaign, that we are not in it. Let us push on the SPL with a view of playing in the Champions League. Need a target? The Champions League Final in 2013 is at Wembley Stadium, part of the 150th anniversary of the FA.
Met Jack Jones a few times for work reasons when he was a pensions campaigner- fantastic man. Refused all sortrs of honours but accepted the Order of Merit which he donated to the TGWU museum.
Ernie,
In your world, not only did the SNP support the Nazis but the First Minister is, as this very moment, goose-stepping round Charlotte Square while wee Nicola Surgeon plays Wagner tunes on her Casio vl tone.
;-)
ernie lynch says:
16 December, 2011 at 12:22
Ernie!
Astonished by your very reasonable response.
Hail,my fellow Tim.
I have no way of verifying the truth.
The Kremlin say that they “subsidised “Jack Jones .
Who am I to argue with the Kremlin?
Can’t believe some of the bickering on here.
The banner was silly, childish & slightly embarrassing. Nothing more.
The flare was stupid & potentially dangerous.
Let UEFA do what they do based on the rules.
‘We’ put ourselves in this position. If there is no reprimand, fine if there is (assuming it is moderate) accept it like the big club we’re supposed to be.
Surely we can’t treat everybody as having an agenda against us?
In fact complaining about everything negative which happens merely dilutes our complaints when we really are shafted.
Now I hope we can stop the needless debate on this issue and concentrate on our strongly developing squad of players!
G’day Celts and Edward, a happy Friday to ye all.
Edward I’d like to echo others posts in welcoming you back to CQN, to mark the occasion I promise to type Rangers when addressing you on fitba matter rather than my normal ranker/ Orcs or Huns which I’d say is more colourful :>)
ChewinthefatCSC
V
Yeah so an excellent performance last night – and it was excellent in every way – has been utterly cast aside by the mindless, moronic actions of a bunch of self-indulgent wannabee revolutionaries who think their view, their warped view, of our club is an accurate representation of what we are about.
Note to the yahoos – you ain’t Celtic. You speak for no-one but yourselves.
This isn’t about our enemies in Scotland coming after us, and this Family needing to oppose that. This is about a small group of supporters trying to pick a fight – a fight, by the way, we cannot win – with people who at present are NOT our enemies. This is about tarnishing, about urinating on, a reputation we have worked hard, damned hard, to cultivate and it has taken us years.
UEFA are not our enemies. They took on Rangers when the SFA had no intention of doing so. Are some of their rules contradictory, like not holding clubs responsible for what happens outside the ground? Of course. To hammer clubs for the behaviour of a few nutters inside the ground whilst they turn the proverbial blind eye and deaf ear to a riot is a piece of nonsense, but they at least have gone boldly where the SFA did not want to go, and made some EFFORT.
I say again, we have no enemies at UEFA. Last night’s showpiece in Italy was as a result of a ruling – a major ruling – in our favour, and that appears to have escaped the notice of some of our so-called fans.
Let me remind them, we in the Celtic Family have a collective word for people who behave in a way which is mindless, arrogant, confrontational and destructive. We call them huns.
Last night their actions damaged our club. The people responsible for it should be hunted down and removed from our fan base. Their actions were not reckless, as some have said, or about freedom of speech or any of that stuff. They have a clear agenda, and if I did not know better (I do, I am not indulging in whatabouterry) I would say some of the people steering them are doing so deliberately to put our club in harms way. Conspiracy theorists of the world unite.
What we saw last night is not about standing up for yourselves in light of attacks from people who wish us ill. It was pure self indulgent nonsense, utterly without merit, completely negative, shocking destructive and brought no credit to anyone involved.
The board had my contempt earlier this week with their shocking decision not to clarify the situation with our fans singing. On this one they have my full support. These people went out of their way last night to provoke the next phase of this, and if the people running Celtic want to clean house and be rid of the lot of them, any sympathy they had from me has gone.
Appalling behaviour by a minority who now seem determined to cause us problems.
Some people I was speaking to were talking about Scott Brown and “match fitness”. Apparently being fit isn’t everything. You need games under your belt to gain match fitness.
Why was this consideration never offered to Sammi when he was wheeled out and expected to perform without having played 90 mins for several games?
I’ve always liked the big guy.
Edward Ursus says:
16 December, 2011 at 11:54
Canamalar I very rarely post on here now but the question you asked has been answered a few times. As far as I know (and I could well be wrong) No British club has flown the swastika. The game you are probably meaning is when the SFA hired Ibrox for an international v Nazi Germany. The swastika flag was the flag of the country Scotland were playing which is why the SFA had it flying. This had nothing to do with Rangers as it was an international
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Hi stranger. You learn something new every day. I’ve never heard anything about a swastika flag over Ibrox. I’m glad you shed some light on the matter.
Something I wanted to say yesterday but forgot. That Wee Naisy of yours is a wee nyaff – normally can’t stand him BUT he did a very good thing in paying for the Christmas dinner for the homeless (Loaves and Fishes Charity) out of his own funds and turned up to mix with the punters. He has risen greatly in my estimation but I’ll be booing him again when he’s fit.
Anyone looking to buy a season ticket ? ;-)
CQN Naps
not likely to be around in the morning so my nap is;
Houblon Des Obeaux – which is currently 12/1.
No way it will go off at 12’s as the conditions are perfect for him tomorrow.
Early picks for me today bhoys.
Tartan Snow
Haydock 1340.
All the best as always.
I can’t understand why Celtic fans are still settling for the likes of Samaras, Kayal, Hooper, Ki or the three liabilities at the back especially that Cha fool who alone cost us 4 points in the section? they can hardly compete in the SPL let alone Europe! they either panic or disappear when the going gets tough and have one good game out of ten, thank the good lord for young Forrest and our ON LOAN goalkeeperat at least they saved a bit of face? Lennon should be gone! he’s had long enough and is still living on starved fans sympathy! To be pleased at drawing with an underpar and obviously off form Udinese team (especially old man Di Natale) and with the chances we had is nothing short of accepting 2nd best we’re no better off than when Mowbray was manager we just have a more complicated midfield with Brown forced out right and Forrest forced out left to accomodate a shirker and a one pass wonder no doubt we will be left again with another clear out of rubbish when Lennons sympathy vote runs out as I can’t see him doing the decent thing … Come back Strach’ all is forgiven!
FLEAGLE 1888 et al.
Gonna be a tad late with my weekly waster,so apologies in advance.
Morning Lhads.
I’m going for Wheres Suzie in the 2.55 @ Lingfield.
Cheers
jonteim 0812
I’ve decided to c&p your post and submit it on the current thread.
No need to thank me…..
BMCUW
Rather than the main thread I’d have dropped it straight into the nearest trash bin.
CQN Saturday Naps Competition – Week 18 Results/Standings
Lads, apologies for the tardy updates… I’ve had no internet access since last Saturday!
Congratulations go to Raymac on his first winner (Quantative Easing @6/1) and also to Rockon (Shieldmaiden @5/2)… but the commiserations are for Wolfetonebhoy, whose nag/nap fell when 6L clear at the last hurdle (Sea of Thunder @ 13/2) !
+£15.00 voguepunter (3)
+£11.83 bobbymurdoch’s winklepickers (5)
+£10.83 fleagle1888 (4)
+£ 5.63 Rockon (5)
+£ 4.50 twists n turns (3)
+£ 2.25 Eurochamps67 (5)
+£ 0.50 wolfetonebhoy (3)
-£ 1.70 Som mes que un club (2)
-£ 3.00 Cathal (4)
-£ 9.00 What is the Stars (1)
-£11.00 Raymac (1)
-£12.50 hunza rugli (1)
-£13.00 Che (1)
-£13.00 PFayr (1)
-£18.00 BULL67
-£18.00 oldtim
-£18.00 The Token Tim
-£18.00 tommytwisttommyturns
*No selections from : The Token Tim*
Cheers, fleagle1888
twistsandturns 0916
That was my first thought,but I thought it was worthy of wider viewing.
The guy’s a twat,but I thought EVERYONE should have the chance to see it and wait for his next attempt!
Not gonna have time to study these properly today after all,and no chance of being back in time so….
WYMOTT 245H
Waited on Haydock inspection – fancy Pateese Haydock 2.10 to turn round a rather poor display on its last outing.
Company Christmas lunch/dinner today – won’t see any horses :¬(
Good luck everyone.
Politeo Ascot 125 for me please
Heres my one to avoid today,
RAJDHANI EXPRESS 335 Ascot.
Does it smell like desperation?
Aye.
Aw Ra Best
Season’s Greetings to one and all.
POLITEO 1.25 Ascot is the nap.
What a race the Ladbroke looks. I fancy about 8 of them.
Best of luck, last nap for a couple of weeks, winter R & R. I hope to return at the top of the league. No’ me the Celtic.
EC67
Another week and hopefully better luck!!
I’ll try King of Firth in the 13.45 today at Fairyhouse
Hail Hail
Wolfetonebhoy