Agree 100 percent with this. If we go out to such a poorly resourced club a lot of self examination is needed.
i don't think anyone will deny that if we fail to go through it is a ****ing disaster. however, all things considered we are not at the level we wish to be at plus this was our first competetive game compared with their 19th (i think). lets take the win and go into next week looking for a result. if we sit back for a nil nil we are ****ed
A rusty performance but a satisfactory win. Victor Wanyama, in particular, I thought was disappointingly slow and off his game ... although that maybe wasn't too bad a thing as I read somewhere that Arsenal and I think, Man Utd were having him watched tonight. For me, thankfully, Adam Matthews seemed to be up to full match fitness. Hopefully the game against Aberdeen on Saturday will help sharpen them all up. Have to say, I would be wary of HJK Helsinki on their home ground especially if we don't sharpen up.
There can only be disappointed when idiots predict a 5 or 6 nil win . Personally I thought we played well , goalie made good save ball rebounded to him but where was Izzie still in their half !! But as a fan that goes every week I always look at the positives , Brown came onto a game ( had two operations during the summer ) Forrest had the beating of his full back and another game under the belt with Kayal in the team on Saturday we will be fine in Helenski
There is a flu outbreak at AFC with already 10 first team players ordered to rest at home. The match may not even go ahead. Celtic will struggle to finnish off Helsinki like all the sensible paranoid tims suggested before the first leg. Listen to me. I deal in FACTS and Sensibility.
frustrating as we clearly had a good load of chances and were the better team wanyama was asleep the whole game - i wish lenny would just buy a centre half instead of converting a very good midfielder into an average one! sammy was good, forrest was good in parts, commons looked sharp when he was going to get taken off.... i was at the game - atmosphere excellent, crowd good, food as bad as ever
Would have expected a lot more from Celtic, that team aren't any good I think we seen that much. We should be fine over there so long as we keep a good tempo and control the game. But the job should have been done yesterday.
I'm not sure this quote deserved a double bump, since it was more a statement of truth - which is surely still true? I mean are you trying to say that my prematch prediction was wrong? On the scale of confident prematch predictions I would certainly put mine on the conservative scale, indicating that a team with our resources should beat a team of their resources, do you not agree with this statement? is that why it deserves a double bump - did what you see during the game indicate that a team of our resources did not deserve to beat a team of their resources? Apart from a 15 minute spell before half time they didn't have the ball, even still at one point in that half Foster took a kick from almost the half way line. In the last 20 minutes they were worse than an SPL side, hoofing the ball up the pitch and defending with their lives. I will say it again actually, if we don't beat this mob then there can be very few excuses.
Gary Hooper scored a goal to settle Celtic’s nerves against HJK Helsinki at Parkhead and says he can do the same in Finland to keep his team’s Champions league hopes alive. Hooper found the net to quickly equalise after HJK’s surprise opening goal before Charlie Mulgrew scored a winner to give Celtic a narrow lead in the tie. With HJK having bagged a crucial away goal, Celtic manager Neil Lennon said the tie was “in the balance” but Hooper says he can score in Helsinki to put Celtic firmly in the driving seat. "We have just got to play like we did,” he said. “We will not sit in and defend, we will go there and play football. "We have enough attacking players to score goals. We are good on the counter-attack. "I look to score in every game and if the chances come like they did in the first leg then I think we have a good chance." Hooper reflected on Wednesday’s match and said that he was pleased overall with Celtic’s display but conceded that match sharpness had still to fully return. However, he insisted that after this weekend’s SPL opener, the side would be more clinical next week. "I thought we played well,” he said. “We didn't take our chances in the first half and conceded a sloppy goal but we came back and scored two good goals. "We had to step it up a level and we did. I thought we played really well." "We passed the ball well, the fitness levels were up there. The sharpness is not there yet but we are getting there. "We have got an SPL game with Aberdeen and take the sharpness out of that into Wednesday
did superhooper write this excercise in logic for you ? though, admittedly, the spacing is more conventional.
A brutal Coptic traditional choppy Instead of removing the foreskin, they remove the entire helmet and a Coptic cleric sucks the blood out of the remaining stump. Compulsory for all 5 yr olds or they go to Hell. Brutal religion
