Who hit the crossbar for PSV there?
Very nice hair cut on Allegri.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 820338, member: 9”]Who hit the crossbar for PSV there?
Very nice hair cut on Allegri.[/quote]
Maher.
Despite losing a good few players in the summer, PSV still remain a very strong side.
[quote=“Rudi, post: 820333, member: 1052”]We’ve rode our luck in pretty much any ‘successful’ game involving Lennon. He’s living off the home result against Barcelona. We should have been tanked in Lisbon last season, we rode our luck against Spartak and on the balance of play we were the lesser team. We were really poor against both Spartak and Benfica at home - although admittedly missing a few players against Benfica. We were dirt away to Helsinborgs last season and should have lost, we were dirt at home to Helsinki last season and just managed to get the result. We were dirt against Elfsborg in the away leg and we were dirt tonight.
He’s not got mentality to succeed at this level. Get him and his turgid football out of Celtic. Lets get a brave and fair manager in, rather than this cowardly and disloyal spoofer.[/quote]
I don’t know why I bother responding to this nonsense but I’ve little else to be doing with my time.
We were excellent away to Spartak last season - better than we’ve been in nearly every European away performance in the last decade or more. Juventus away under O’Neill, Liverpool and Blackburn away in the UEFA Cup run and Milan away (albeit in defeat) under Strachan were the only comparable away performances. We were then excellent away to Barcelona and even better at home to Barcelona.
By all means have a go at Lennon and whatever weaknesses you might perceive to be there, and there are plenty, but don’t pretend that we were poor in the CL last season. It’s revisionist nonsense to argue that.
[quote=“Rocko, post: 820344, member: 1”]I don’t know why I bother responding to this nonsense but I’ve little else to be doing with my time.
We were excellent away to Spartak last season - better than we’ve been in nearly every European away performance in the last decade or more. Juventus away under O’Neill, Liverpool and Blackburn away in the UEFA Cup run and Milan away (albeit in defeat) under Strachan were the only comparable away performances. We were then excellent away to Barcelona and even better at home to Barcelona.
By all means have a go at Lennon and whatever weaknesses you might perceive to be there, and there are plenty, but don’t pretend that we were poor in the CL last season. It’s revisionist nonsense to argue that.[/quote]
Will you read what you’ve just typed. We grabbed a late win against a Spartak side in turmoil and you’re comparing it to some of the O’Neill perfomances against some of Europe’s top sides who we really took the game too. I remember us equalising in the San Siro through Varga after we had battered Milan for 30 minutes, we did the same to Juve in the Delle Alpi. We were super against Bayern Munich only for that cunt Hedman to throw it away late on.
Comparing Lennon’s side to O’Neill’s side is like chalk and cheese. O’Neill was a ballsy manager who sent his players out to go for it, O’Neill never let the opposition impact on Celtic, he picked what he thought was our best team and played to our strengths. Lennon focuses too much on stopping the opposition who could be a group of Kazak sheep farmers like tonight.
You are deluded if you think the Spartak peformance was one of the best we’ve seen in Europe from O’Neill’s tenure on.
We were poor against Benfica at home, we were poor against Spartak at home and we were absolutely abysmal in Lisbon - they are indisputable. We played well against Barcelona in both games, but we pretty much parked the bus - particularly for the away game. The Spartak game was a decent performance and we were lucky to get the result there (against a side down to ten men). We also stumbled through qualifying - only delivering a decent performance at home to Helsinborgs.
Milan beginning to dominate now. Balotelli has been great tonight, I’ve came to the conclusion that he has a style of play very similar to Zlatan.
[quote=“Rudi, post: 820352, member: 1052”]Will you read what you’ve just typed. We grabbed a late win against a Spartak side in turmoil and you’re comparing it to some of the O’Neill perfomances against some of Europe’s top sides who we really took the game too. I remember us equalising in the San Siro through Varga after we had battered Milan for 30 minutes, we did the same to Juve in the Delle Alpi. We were super against Bayern Munich only for that cunt Hedman to throw it away late on.
Comparing Lennon’s side to O’Neill’s side is like chalk and cheese. O’Neill was a ballsy manager who sent his players out to go for it, O’Neill never let the opposition impact on Celtic, he picked what he thought was our best team and played to our strengths. Lennon focuses too much on stopping the opposition who could be a group of Kazak sheep farmers like tonight.
You are deluded if you think the Spartak peformance was one of the best we’ve seen in Europe from O’Neill’s tenure on.
We were poor against Benfica at home, we were poor against Spartak at home and we were absolutely abysmal in Lisbon - they are indisputable. We played well against Barcelona in both games, but we pretty much parked the bus - particularly for the away game. The Spartak game was a decent performance and we were lucky to get the result there (against a side down to ten men). We also stumbled through qualifying - only delivering a decent performance at home to Helsinborgs.[/quote]
You have chosen matches against Juve away (defeat), Milan away (defeat) and Bayern Munich away (defeat) to demonstrate how much better we were away from home under O’Neill. What utter rubbish.
Shocking by Abbiati. 1-1.
No I haven’t I was comparing performances, not results. I think it’s the sign of an idiot to twist words to suit his agenda.
Abbiati drops a howler for Milan. 1-1.
I must reiterate that I think Kevin Prince Boateng is a very ordinary player. He’s nowhere near good enough for Milan.
Liam Lawrence is in Champions League action tonight for PAOK against Schalke.
Sagna has to be the blackest man I’ve ever seen. He is like tarmac.
Arsenal are much the better team so far.
PAOK were actaully beaten in the last qualifying round over 2 legs by Metalist Kharkiv of Ukraine , Metalist were subsequently kicked out over some involvement in a match fixing scandal by the CAS and PAOK were reinstated.
PAOK were meant to play Maccabi Tel Aviv tomorrow night in the UEFA cup playoffs but now Maccabi have gotten a bye to the group stages.
PAOK and Schalke will be played behind closed doors in the return leg in Saloniki as the fans are nutters.
watching the PAOK game now
some black eejit called Jefferson Farfan puts Schalke 1 up
Arsenal are very careless with their centre halves, they’ve just lost Koscielny now. Granted it had something to do with the fella* who kicked him in the head.
- to keep up with the recent racial tones to posts on this thread, he was very black also.
Fenerbahce look woeful.
I have backed Arsenal at 7/5 here
Yup outta that:pint: