I fear a pumpin' 3 or 4-0.

Anything less will be a blessing

Just had a quick watch of the highlights online. Why strachan still refused to buy defenders is beyond me...Loovens excepted.

Will McGeady get a start do you think?

2 or 3 nil to Villareal.

Very good technical side, finished 2nd in La Liga last season and have started pretty well this season, couple that with a very good 0-0 draw away to the European Champions. Celtic are going to strugle in a stadium, where the home side has only lost 3 or 4 times since 04.

Edit: Beating the likes of Man Utd, Inter Milan and Zenit St. Petersburg along the way.

Villarreal have a cracking home European record, Celtic have possibly the worst away European record there is. 3-0 for Villarreal

Villareal will probably stick a few past us tomorrow. Our defence is not anywhere near good enough to compete at this level away from home.

I hope that Celtic either win or get absolutely annihilated, if that makes any sense.

It does, if by win you mean man-raped.

What I mean is I don't want another boring away loss for Celtic. To make the game entertaining for me I hope they somehow manage to claw a win (dramatic breakaway goal, rearguard action, goalmouth scrapes) or they lose by four goals or more (laughable defending, revolt from the fans, dummy spit by Strachan). Both would be fun to watch from a neutral perspective.

I think they will probably lose 2-0.

Don't be so pessimistic. Easy win for Celtic. Looking at 0-4 or maybe 1-4 if they switch off at the end. The heady blend of hapless defending and lightweight midgets that can't keep possession in midfield will be too much for the dozy Spaniards.

Strachan is learning in Europe.

The fans hail the efforts of his predecessor because he took them into the hallowed gates of the UEFA Cup.

Celtic fans don't want Champs League progression, borne out by the complete indifference with which they have greeted Strachan's achievements.

He is aiming for third place, to appease the fans, and has to be careful not to pick up too many points en route,just in case second becomes inevitable

I'll take a draw

I have had a vision....or i'm an idiot, whatever one but we will keep it tight for an hour and then sucker punch them on the counter. I don't know if we will hold on but i see this happening.

And Gary Franz Caldwell is back so our back four will be rock solid....................

Two R's

see the bhoys are having a party over there wish it was me

canny see anything other than a doing

I spelled it correctly Mr Brightside

Im dissapointed Crosas is not playing I thought this game was made for him.
i hope Nakamura turns up.

4-3-1-1 for Celtic, with Nakamura also wandering about as a passenger, waiting for a free-kick.

Team: Boruc, Wilson, Caldwell, McManus, Naylor; Nakamura, Brown, Hartley, McGeady; Maloney; Samaras.

Subs: M. Brown, Vennegoor of Hesselink, McDonald, Crosas, Loovens, Robson, Caddis.

It will be interesting to see how they line up in attack. I'd imagine Maloney will play in the hole behind Samaras, but Nakamura and McGeady could also both play in there.

That is a bad line-up, in my opinion. A maximum of 2 out of McGeady, Maloney and Nakamura, I'd have thought would be the best option.

At least someone does

McGeady is fucking ratten!!!

Seems like his spell on the bench didn't change his attitude much.

Who's pocket is the £10 million boy in tonight?

Don't think that was as good a chance for Samaras as the commentators are saying.

I think Celtic are doing great
Lets hope for more of the same in the second half.

He took far too long to make his mind up and it looked like he was walking through on goal,he didn't show any conviction at all.Poor effort!

if he had a left foot at all it would have been...

Think Celtic are doing OK, i never knew Villarreal were playing under the condition every move must go through Senna, even if it slows the move down.

Get in there!

Commentators going on about a soft free kick.. May I just remind them about Nakamura at Love Street? What goes around comes around..

Taking off Maloney??? WTF???

"McDonald couldn't have hit that any better".

Er, yes he could, he could have scored.

I don't know why wee GS keeps playing Nakamura in CL games away from home,he's usually a passenger.

Living off that 1 free kick at old trafford?

Fakkin 'ell

Aiden McGeady was funny tonight...

I hate it when pundits like Hartson used "valiant" as an adjective for "out of their depth".

Talking about the free-kick now

i wish john hartson would stop doing that thing with his hands, it makes him look like such a queer

Boruc can't organise a wall properly and he always looks shaky at any set piece. (Not the goal) Not the signs of a world class keeper.
Also, Celtic's defense is the worst in years, I think i'd say that the reserved Bobo Balde is the best of that bad bunch (Not saw Loovens yet).

Indeed. Or even the penalty they were awarded against St. Mirren at Parkhead on the opening day.

Its amazing how Celtic get everything going in Scotland but once they get a neutral ref in Europe they get nothing.

GIRUY Celtic. Its what you deserve.

He also looks about 4 stone over weight!

Pretty happy with that peformance, don't think we couild have did a lot more to keep in the game than how we set up there, if we'd been more adventurousI think we could habe been done.

Better team won on this occasion, not a top team in Spain for noting. Well done Gordon Strachan..thought that McDonald was going to put away one the best euro goals we've scored there

Yer getting it Hamilton

He could be 50 stone overweight and Gordon Strachan, the kiss arse would still play him.

Thought McGeady was very poor in the first half and only marginally better in the second. Brown played well as did Maloney till he was subbed. Naylor?..................nuff said.

Taken on it's own and away from the overall champs league away record I don't think we can complain too much. Villareal are a top quality side and will turn over better teams than us on their home turf.

Time to to turn Manure over home and away I guess!

ach it will not be long till traitorbhoy is playing alongside that other world beater Mark Burchill at Rotherham

I thought Naka was our biggest missing player, however we did better than I thought including the sieve so it would be wrong to be too critical IMO. Thought we performed well first half. Looking forward to seeing who the weeman will
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Could be worse he could end up on the rock

He did well with his Jan signings this year. Robson won us the title.

Agree with you on Naka. He was possibly just worse than McGeady.

For the first hour Celtic played well and the ploy of having Scott Brown shadowing Marcos Senna was a good one. I think Strachan can be tactically naive at times, but he got that one right.

As for Samaras missing the two chances he had, I hate the fact that footballers that earn a five-figure sum cannot kick the ball with both feet. I know you're always going to have one foot stronger than the other, but he wasn't willing to try.

As for Nakamura, I often think Strachan plays him out of defiance and like David Beckham, is a one-trick pony. He offers nothing to the game other than that and I think the sooner he leaves the better, because he plays like he's not interested.

McDonald was unlucky with his volley and Boruc was on good form again. Celtic can take a few positives from this, but the headlines will be all about this poor away record.

You thought Maloney played well??? You realise that by playing well you must be available for a pass and following your runner when playing that position, he left naylor exposed 2v1 on numerous occasions, was extremely poor in my opinion.

Thought Aiden didn't play to badly, certainly not the best but by no means the worst.

What exactly did paul hartley do tonight? If anybody seen him touch the ball give me a shout.

Nakamura....well what do you expect

Scott Brown - Best game in the Hoops, only gave it away once which is a record for him and seemed to be the only player in the midfield who relished a tackle.

Gary Caldwell had a super game yet again, did not put a foot wrong and continues to grow in stature, even captain had a decent game tonight covering for our invisible left side.

The people in the wall at the goal - FUCKIN JUMP NEXT TIME!!!!!

In summary I thought we did much better than I thought, not unhappy with how we performed tonight, do the buggers at Celtic park

I'm being serious here.Was Paul Hartly even playing? I can't remember seeing him or hear the commentators say his name.