Agreed.
Oh Christ that was a huge chance. Appalling defending to allow that. Think it was Ambrose who was supposed to be marking him. It’s utterly bizarre.
Offside actually, maybe Ambrose knew that.
Great result.
1-1 finish.
That’s a really good result and a really good performance (given the players we have for both).
Michael Stewart was absolutely raving about O’Connell all game. He was excellent for large parts of it but the goal was his fault and he gave the ball away far too often in the first half. Looked the better centre back though and he may well be a player.
Nice bit of argy bargy at the finish . Whoever put up the link earlier fair play. I got to watch the last 20 mins
Enjoyable enough.nice ground.dreading the flights home
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Freaky shit. Well done, Bandage. That’s some epic tipping.
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Was encouraging to see us actually switching formations during the game in response to how it was flowing. We didn’t do that at all under Deila and Lennon was reluctant to do it too. I know Rodgers has a bit of a reputation for changing things too quickly but going to a more 4-3-3 and getting Bitton on was key. And the default change would have been to keep Brown with Bitton and go 4-2-3-1 as we’re used to but Brown was pushed forward which got him in their faces more and Bitton controlled the game from deeper.
I was really disappointed with some recent performances from Bitton but he definitely has some class about him. He may need some more coaching to get more imposing on a game but he has that in him and he looked very assured and influential, albeit for a brief spell tonight. I’m less certain about the merits of Rogic and Forrest but both contributed too. Forrest had his full back beaten repeatedly, but didn’t take great options always. Rogic just kept it simple but gave us possession higher up the pitch.
Delighted with Roberts obviously - that was an immense performance against a team that was intent on kicking the living shit out of him and he got fuck all protection from the referee.
Griffiths is invaluable to us at the moment too. He took a while to get his touch tonight but when there’s a chance there’s nobody else you’d want it to fall to. A great finisher.
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If Rodgers thinks he’s gonna do anything special with that team he’s pissing in the wind. A few more signings needed. Hopefully it comes with progression to champions league group stages, but from what I hear he’s not been given any money to go and buy quality players.
I would be shocked if he wasn’t given some sort of guarantees of available money before he took over although it is worrying the lack of action so far. I’d say a couple of the targets are waiting to see if they get though to CL before committing.
Otherwise the board may go shit in their hats.
Was the main reason Lennon left, no ?
He was a busted flush.
The black lad on the bench for Celtic didn’t look too excited about the Celtic goal, very half hearted clap he was giving there.
Live coverage of the second leg on Wednesday night exclusive to Celtic TV. Which means get a dodgy stream or go to the game. Celtic want to draw as big a crowd as possible, hence not selling the broadcast rights to TV.
Is it on the new setanta thingy in celtic’s mother country .
Just on Celtic TV, pal.
Grand chief .
Talk of Janko starting ahead of Lustig tonight because of his pace.