On watching Celtic on Tuesday I wondered, ‘What will Juventus learn from this performance?’ Their scout will have left with a few notes.
Celtic can break quickly and effectively. Both Hooper goals came as a result of moving the ball the length of the field, mostly on the deck, at pace.
Their threat from corner kicks was re-emphasised. Charlie Mulgrew delivers the ball with sufficient pace to benefit from unpredictable movement, beyond the anticipated swerve. This will be difficult for defenders, keeper and attackers to meet, but Celtic players clearly put a lot of work into practicing getting onto the end of these crosses.
Hopefully the scout will have learned nothing about how we will defend against Juventus as we were somewhat erratic early on against United and were not pressed thereafter.
Juventus are rightly favourites but this this is a thankless tie for them, especially when the first message delivered is ‘Don’t concede corners or free kicks in wide positions’.
They will also be alert to the dangers of being caught forward when Celtic can break effectively. Celtic conceded through this mistake against Spartak last month but I wouldn’t expect us to leave as much empty space in defence at any point against Juventus.
My main worry about Celtic is over how much practice they are putting into penalty kicks….
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I have to admit that i am not familiar with the writings of The Singing Defective as i tend to scroll by,
it seems from what some CQN’rs have been saying that he may be something of a part time fascist???
In this respect i can sympathise with his views as i,..at one time,was a follower of Sir Roderick Spode and his London group,The Black Shorts.
I have wonderful memories of some of his dramatic speeches and his political platform was indeed inspiring.Some of his ideas are as follows,
Giving each citizen at birth a British–made bicycle and umbrella,
Dedicating Wales entirely to the production of turnips;
A ban on the import of foreign root vegetables;
The mandatory eating of asparagus;
Widening the rails of the entire British railway network, so sheep may stand sideways on trains
The scientific measurement of all British male knees…..
On this topic he cried…. “Not for the true-born Englishman the bony angular knee of the so-called intellectual, not for him the puffy knee of the criminal classes. The British knee is firm, the British knee is muscular, the British knee is on the march!”
He was indeed a Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that could open an oyster at sixty paces?
HH.
winning captains:
That would be terrific. I will be in Russia soon. My email is with Paul. I enjoyed the article you mentioned. Only once have I seen a Celtic top in Petersburg. Still, that is one more than most other clubs from over here!
winning captains
my address just now should be saying G75
During the day from work I imagine it will say USA as my works main servers are in the states
(Facebook highlighted that someone …I think in Texas was logging into my wifes account it was me)
Not everything is as it seems.
ipaddy…
This is more than a football blog, if you don’t like it tough.
SFTB…..
A Total Cop-Out From You….
Why Am I Not….Surprised..!
zimmerman
A true visionary was Rodders, never will we see his like again….
Doc is Neil Lennon – 675 in Stirling area (in last 30 days) and 156 in Shetland.
jc2 – Understand – not exact science, as Paul was pointing out to me – apparently he is in England! – but it is a bit of fun and quite interesting. I thought for instance it says something about the work needing to be done to promote Celtic in Asia.
John O Neil – will see what I can do and come back to you.
Winning Captains, thanks. Interesting.
Winning CaPtains
Any posters connected from my place in Larkhall?
so bang bang goes away for another season, dont think we’ll see him again.
surprised miku and mccourt are still with us
cant help think at least one of these bhoys will leave this january
with hooper and victor following in the summer, allbeit for a few pounds more.
happy NFL has ended the speculation about hooper this window we can now all get on with enjoying the season in peace.
hail hail
winning captains
Did you ask Paul about the edit thing we talked about ?
Canamalar
You seem to be on here spouting guff any time I look in. You really should get a life.
The IRA love-fest on here earlier was nauseating
Awch sh*t.
Dunnit again…doh
stephbhoy
I think Getafe might not want Miku back, all depends on the arrangement, they were desperate to get him off the wage bill, so if he goes back, we will prob still have to pay for the whole season.
THE EXILED TIM
Sure did – he was moaning because someone broke the clock! It was probably him too! We are gong to be improving the site and this is top of the list. Might be a week or a month but will do it.
Oh Dearie me
ipaddy,
If you don’t like some posts, or a conversation, scroll by.
Paul67 doesn’t try to tell people what they can or cannot talk about on his blog, I don’t see why you think you can.
ZIMMERMAN
If only we could ensure his silence with “Eulalie”………
Sevco football debt to European clubs = 6m
Proposed fine of 4m
6+4=The Mike Ashley Stadium
HH
winning captains
Nice wan.
Thank him for me.
HH
Awe Naw
What fine of 4 mill ?
tsd
to state that the Croats ALSO committed atrocities is giving equality to chalk and cheese.
Cop out.
you used the genocide as part basis for your anti muslim stance
When should we expect your anti catholic rant then
Awe Naw – Chuck said he paid off ALL football debts dontcha know….try to keep up! :-)
Doc – less of that cyber-bullying please….!
T4
My Dear,Dear Friend….Kojo…
It Appears That The American Striker…
That You Rated So Highly….
Has Returned To NFL Chivas…..
And The Management Of His Club…
Have Claimed That Celtic’s Offer For The Player….
Was Significantly Below Their Own Valuation….
(If Indeed….There Was Ever A Genuine Offer..)
As For The Nigerian Striker We Were Linked With….
The Scouts Have Not Yet Managed To See Him Playing….
As He Was Not Selected For The Two Friendly Fixtures Played By Nigeria Before The Africa Cup….
Or For The First Tie Played In The Tournament….
So He Is Unlikely….
To Grace The Turf……
Of Paradise-Oan-The-Clyde….
Still Bounce Bangura Has Returned To Sweden On Loan….
So That Should Free Up Some Funds…
TET, Winning Captains, I’ll look forward to the changes.
A wee suggestion, iPads are treated as mobile devices, could there be an option to switch to desktop, giving full features, on WiFi it used to work.
T4, are you turning up to be bullied at CRCs 5s?
izzy
Was just signing off for the night there but couldn’t resist checking Larkhall for you.
107 CQN visitors – maybe they are obsessed?
ipaddy..,
And you only ever come on greeting about people no talking about what you want to talk about.
There are a load of clowns like you who come on and complain about the subject matter being discussed, who don’t seem to have the intelligence to start a discussion about what they want to talk about.
No one is stopping you or anyone else from raising any subject you want, it appears you don’t want to raise any discussion, just harp on about your narrow minded demand to limit subject matter.
If you read back you’ll find I was not involved in any IRA discussion, you know why ?
Because unlike you I’m bright enough to discuss subjects I want to discuss, neither you or anyone else bubblin will stop me.
TET
Based on previous match fixing fines for turkish and Italian clubs over one season. We are looking at 700 games. Extrapolate dividie by two reduce figure based on ten year inflation knock a zero of and then you arrive at 4 million
PrecedenceCSC
HH
THE EXILED TIM
know you’ll be right so it makes sence to keep him until the end of the season if there is no saving on fee/ wages.
would rather see a couple of the next gen kids getting a game, given he is very unlikely to be here next season
hail hail
Doc is Neil Lennon
Have you checked over the past few days. Sorting that broke the clock according to Paul!
Paddy, I am a life long Irish Republican and very proud of it. I am also a supporter of the Peace Process and am glad the war is over and that conditions now exist that gives people an opportunity of advancing their political aspirations in a peaceful and democratic manner. I am glad that you never had to fight for this basic human right. Whilst I am glad that the war is over I will never turn my back on people, who suffered so much to achieve what has been achieved, even if it fell short of the ultimate goal. Accordingly I mourn the death of Dolours Price, if you find that nauseating so be it.
Doc – I gave up 5’s when I started working as a contractor about 15 years ago….broken leg = about 6 weeks with no wages!
Is the quizman starting his own 5-a-side tourney now?!
I’m restricting my physical exertions to support crew for the WeeOscar4Life cycle….sitting in a car while others cycle all day. It works for me!
T4
Winning Captains, you’re ahead of the game. FB etc, available at the top, hadn’t looked.
Cheers.
Winning Captains
pmsl
Well done sir. You should post more often.
Hail hail :)
Doc
The wife was involved in an animal charity in Ireland for years, and had a blog that was frequented by more than 100k visitors a day, they soon realised that a facility to edit your own posts greatly reduced friction on the blog.
Quite a few posters have asked for it, a very good idea imo.
TTTT
Not according to a Rapid fan I was talking to last night.
I fear UEFA will become the 4th monkey and I hope that it will have the same effect on them ultimately as the butterfly flapping its wings. One thing for sure the Juve games pale into utter insignificance in comparison to whatever happens.
HH
… One more thing
perhaps an automatic grammar correction facility for The Boy Jinky too…
TBJ
Only kidding SON