Sunday was a huge test of Celtic’s apparent return to form. Aberdeen had the luxury of training and preparing for their semi-final, while Celtic travelled to France to play on-form Lille; an exhausting occasion.
Apart from a couple of ominous looking early cross balls, the game was completely controlled by the holders, as they secured yet another domestic cup win: 35 without reply. 100 years from now fans will look back on this period in their record books and wonder at the incessant adulation the Celtic players and manager must surely have received……
Ryan Christie comes in for his fair share of criticism for shooting from distances that beggar belief. When offered inviting space 26 yards from goal he was always going to have a pop; it evaded the despairing lunge of Joe Lewis and found the top right corner of the ‘keeper’s net. It was a symmetrical strike to Mohamed Elyounoussi’s first in Lille.
By this stage, Odsonne Edouard, on his first start since recovering from Covid, passed up a double chance and, as manager Derek McInnes would later observe, the Aberdeen defence were “spooked” by his presence. Tom Rogic crafted the second and final goal of the game when he crossed from an unlikely angle, pitching the ball over Lewis to drop at the far post, where Elyounoussi committed to the cause, and the post*, to score.
There were many tired legs and minds in green and white in the second half but Neil Lennon chose to defend what he had. Aberdeen were given plenty of the ball but were unable to trouble Scott Bain. I was happy to see us play like this, there will be many occasions this season when we will need to shut up shop.
Hearts will attempt to be the first team to win the Scottish Cup in the ‘season’ they were relegated. It will be an historic final either way, as Celtic can become the first club to win four consecutive Scottish Cups, moving clear of the record they share with Aberdeen, Rangers and Queen’s Park.
We have become accustomed to setting records. The Invincible Treble was delicious and the first back-to-back treble historically special in its own right. That it was more of the same, did not make the last Scottish Cup final, also against Hearts, any less tense or celebrated. It is as though each additional achievement makes the next trophy all the more important, to Celtic and to everyone else.
Well done, Celtic.
*the post is receiving therapy.
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ONENIGHTINLISBON on 2ND NOVEMBER 2020 6:33 PM
DELANEYS DUNKY on 2ND NOVEMBER 2020 6:07 PM
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Yes detractors. What would you call constant criticism of our Manager and Players?
So justified criticism is not acceptable?
Seriously?
seriously.yes.your justifiable criticism- non existent.you were having a fully unjustified
gggggggguuuuuuuurrrrrrrnnnnnnnn
but thats alright too.
we could have a poll on it! oh wait the crayon writers already suggested that.
one neil francis lennon
is going nowhere this season.so strap in.
hh
One celtic player breaks covid rules.
Two games postponed.
Five match ban.
Club quarantined.
Two sevco players break quarantine rules.
Government praise sevco.
Thank goodness we have Peter lawwell to fight our corner.
Nicola must be shaking in her boots.
Pistol Pete will come out with all guns blazing.
He will be throwing haymakers from the left and right.
Jabs and blows raining down from all angles.
Nicola can run but she cannot hide.
…………………sure the Club can comment but what about the great and the guid……..voters????????? The constituents……who support the plaid, proddie parodies…………..
…..Scotland is happy enough to put the boot into Celtic……………..
….pardon the pun, but the boot is on the ither foot when it comes to hundom.
It was only a matter of time before it would be big Peter’s fault 🤷♀️
HEADTHEBALL on 2ND NOVEMBER 2020 7:11 PM
It’s no surprise to see how Celtic get treated differently. It’s par for the course.
Like some others, the biggest surprise for me today was finding out that Rocky is not a dog. Who knew!
……………………….
I have to fess up that like several others on here, I too thought that Rocky was a dog. Totally shocked to discover that he is, in fact, a puddy cat. 🤣
That Government press release is nauseating.
Like a said before probably a sly GIRUY from Nicola to Brian Wilson et al.
PL might surprise us,I think there’s been a few false promises from Sturgeon and Leitch, re letting some fans back in to CP….
Regardless of anything else, the simple fact is that Celtic were punished for the actions of the player as were Aberdeen.
Celtic heading for their fourth treble in a row, and with a chance of 10 in a row, and yet the victim mentality is out in force. Let us concentrate on what we do, or don’t do, (eg Bolingoli taking off to Spain, coming back and playing), and not what others do, and concentrate on this season, something we might not have been doing as well as we might have. Who cares what a couple of numpties got up to at the weekend? Not me. We got into the 2020 Scottish Cup final, that’s what we got up to.
SFTB
Can I just point out that we were never 2-0 down in Lille. I’m sure you know that.
Congratulations on your retiremènt from the graft. Enjoy your free time.
Mr Arfield involved too
Celtic need to take the SFA to task if not the games a boggy, As another fan mentioned James Traynor he is still calling the shots along with Irvine protecting Sevco,so come on Celtic report Sevco to UEFA ,don’t take this lying down,
Wit !! Rocky isny a dug😉
Who gees a cat a Rottweilers name🤔
Explain yourself BIG JIMMY 🤷♀️
Great to read some lovely positive comments over the last few days…
Great support for the legend that is NFL….
No sarky cowardly comments about his attire….Or his apparent lack of interest from the bench..
Go on Neil…TIK TOK TEN
H.H
Why is this all of a sudden only celtics problem
Likewise cannae believe Rocky’s no a dug !!!
Adi – Kent and Barisic to???
D :)
Big Jimmy,s tongue in cheek reply to one of the bhoys pretending Rocky wasn’t a dog certainly caught a few out on here. Well done big Jimmy I’m now picturing Jimmy trying to get a urine sample from a cat.HH
On the same day Sevco are fined by UEFA for breaching Covid Regulations, the Scottish Government praise them for breaching Covid Regulations.
Bada-I wonder what one the papers go with tomorrow
C’moan scoddland whaurs yer voice, eh!?
bear-faced guff……………..but if there’s no uproar, the reality is it never happened.
We got the job done yesterday playing great stuff in the first half then seeing the game out.
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*CQN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2020-21*
RESULTS FROM GAME #18 – CELTIC 2 ABERDEEN 0 (Rogic, Elyounoussi)
A wee pedantic point to begin with – yesterday’s game was, of course, last season’s cup semi final and so strictly any votes should ‘belong’ to last year. But as I only thought about that 5 minutes ago I’m not changing everything now; yesterday’s performance took place during this season so I’m treating it as such! 😉
There was 25-minute period during yesterday’s first half where we were absolutely brilliant. Confidence was high, everything was clicking, players were moving all over the place and the outcome was never in doubt. And what is it about Tom Rogic and Hampden Park – made for each other!
November is shaping up as another tough month with 6 games scheduled across 4 competitions, but we have started the month in some style.
And I think this might be the first time this season where every one of our starting 11 received a nomination. And I liked the justification for the vote to Scott Bain – in any game where there’s a clean sheet against decent opposition the goalie deserves recognition.
Thank you to the 70 who voted. The votes cast for each player are as follows (with my own choices asterisked) –
Bain: 1
Frimpong: 6
Duffy: 13
Bitton*: 27
Laxalt: 43
Christie*: 41
Brown: 5
McGregor: 7
Rogic*: 58
Elyounoussi: 8
Edouard: 1
Ajeti: 0
Griffiths: 0
Elhamed: 0
Ntcham: 0
So the players receiving points for the Aberdeen game are –
Rogic – 5 points
Laxalt – 4 points
Christie – 3 points
Bitton – 2 points
Duffy – 1 point
And the overall table is now –
1st – McGregor – 31 points
2nd – Christie – 30 points
3rd – Frimpong – 27 points
4th – Laxalt – 23 points
5th – Ajer and Elyounoussi – 18 points
7th – Ntcham – 16 points
8th – Duffy – 15 points
9th – Bitton and Rogic – 12 points
11th – Brown – 11 points
12th – Taylor – 10 points
13th – Barkas – 9 points
14th – Ajeti and Griffiths – 8 points
16th – Edouard – 6 points
17th – Forrest– 5 points
18th – Elhamed, Klimala and Welsh – 4 points
21st – Bain and Jullien – 2 points
23rd – Turnbull – 1 point
24th – Bolingoli, Dembele and Soro – 0 points
Next up its Europa League action as we host Sparta Prague at 8pm on Thursday evening.
Hail Hail!
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What does MOOD mean regarding julien
Hello again all you young rebels.
Good morning CQN from a beautiful Melbourne Cup day.
29 degs expected need to get the suncream on the bonce.
Feeling really good about The Bhoys improvement I’ve said
all along ” confidence is the key ” for any footballer.
Tip for today.. PRINCE OF ARRAN..only because I backed it
last year and it ran well, and of course it’s Scottish sounding.
O.k who are these people saying ” BIG JIMMY”s dug is a cat ”
I demand to know, I think they’re barking up the wrong tree.
8-))
H.H. Mick
@M.M..LOL Mibee Big jimmy been oot wae a few Dugs and they turned oot to be Miaow…
only kiddin big man…..
By the way i cleared up that question you had about B Side of The Sellic song
you never replied ..So go ponder lol
H.H
PAPAJOE55 on 2ND NOVEMBER 2020 9:28 PM
Big Jimmy,s tongue in cheek reply to one of the bhoys pretending Rocky wasn’t a dog certainly caught a few out on here. Well done big Jimmy I’m now picturing Jimmy trying to get a urine sample from a cat.HH
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I did wonder. But I concluded, too much information! 🤷🏼♂️🙈
HH jg
DRAMBOWIECELT
Sorry if I didn’t respond, I usually try to answer anybody that
names me.
I’m sure the B-side of the Celtic Song was Kathleen.
But aul head, aul memories, all wrong lol.
H.H. Mick
lol Mick think we were changing New Articles…..
any road up ..The Bside was ……drum rolll……
Sure the shamrocks where growin on broadway…….Ha Ha..
An IRISHMANS DREAM…….
DRAMBOWIECELT
Yes, you”ve jogged the aul biddy addled brain, as a lhad I’d
Keep my Celtic records together, away from the pop trash.
And Glen Daly singing Kathleen was in there, now you”ve
got me wondering, what was the other side of that?
Embdy?
H.H. Mick
@MICK The wonderful goalie JT
H.H
https://twitter.com/golazoargentino/status/1323389749395148803?s=08
Maradona in hospital
I would write to my local MP regarding the hun COVID-19 breaches but I know it would be a complete waste of time. I’m sure he would love to put the boot into the SNP if it was anything else but I cannot see Mr Douglas ‘Red, Red, Red’ Ross putting the boot into his beloved huns.
Can we not get Kris Boyd to give us his valuable opinion on such matters?
DRAMBOWIECELT
Great stuff, have you still got them? might be worth a few bob.
H.H. Mick