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Celtic in Europe 2018-19, the long and winding road


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10 minutes ago, wastecoatwilly said:

It's pretty sad the joy fans get from Celtic going out of the champions league. 

Progres Niederkorn?  The occasional point-and-laugh is part of the fun.  Don't be churlish when it happens to you.

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45 minutes ago, The Minertaur said:

Cristian Gamboa 
Kolo Toure

Gamboa played well in both legs v Rosenborg. Lustig cost his side a goal in both legs against AEK. Not sure if Gamboa was injured but it looks to have been bad management.

Toure came in as a stop gap and done what was needed at the start of that season. I'd probably leave him free of criticism.

The other two just aren't good enough.

As a general comment to some of the replies above: Football without schadenfreude would be a load of shite.

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5 hours ago, Ross. said:

Celtic were definitely the better side over both games, but you can’t defend like that at any level and expect to get away with it.

Europa League is more their level. Financial hit is obviously going to hurt them but you’d expect them to be capable of at least 2nd in the group which should do as much for the coefficient as qualifying for the CL, which is just as important.

See i dont agree with the whole "better side over both games" nonsense, athens never lost either leg, celtic lost last night

If the point of football is fannying around with it, doing nothing and being shite at both ends of the park when it matters then aye celtic were the better team, but thats not the point of football

 

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It's what happens when you have about a 35 man first team squad.  You have to give everyone a game or it causes disharmony IMO.  If Gamboa played well against Rosenberg, what possible logic would there be in dropping him for the known bombscare Lustig? Other than to give him a game.

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1 minute ago, 54_and_counting said:

See i dont agree with the whole "better side over both games" nonsense, athens never lost either leg, celtic lost last night

If the point of football is fannying around with it, doing nothing and being shite at both ends of the park when it matters then aye celtic were the better team, but thats not the point of football

Results are all that matter, sure, but if you can't understand my point while also accepting that then you probably don't understand football.

Celtic had more of the ball, created more chances, forced more saves and generally looked the better of the two sides. In both games that was the case.

AEK looked content to sit in and hit on the break, and look to have made a success of that approach for a while now going by results over the last few years, but they can count themselves lucky that Celtic were piss poor with their finishing and even worse with their defending.

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39 minutes ago, wastecoatwilly said:

It's pretty sad the joy fans get from Celtic going out of the champions league. 

I beg to differ :) 

 

Brendan's glorious failure not even reported on the back pages of The Sun down here today.

Some cricket guy got off the hook, Spurs new ground not ready yet, pretty young sprinter lass has done stuff well, her future is bright, that's pretty much it.

Oh, wait a minute, maybe it's in the Goals center spread pull out......??

No. Carabao Cup last night. Villa beat Yeovil amongst others. Poor show another team in green and white hoops losing.  Ah well. A poor performance from Villa though, Steve Bruce not a happy chappy.

 

 

Maybe it never happened :eusa_think:

 

 

 

 

 

Of course it did :lol: 

There's a tiny bit about it in The Mirror sport pages about four pages in, tucked away in a corner. Headline stuff :lol: 

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37 minutes ago, Trackdaybob said:

I beg to differ :) 

 

Brendan's glorious failure not even reported on the back pages of The Sun down here today.

Some cricket guy got off the hook, Spurs new ground not ready yet, pretty young sprinter lass has done stuff well, her future is bright, that's pretty much it.

Oh, wait a minute, maybe it's in the Goals center spread pull out......??

No. Carabao Cup last night. Villa beat Yeovil amongst others. Poor show another team in green and white hoops losing.  Ah well. A poor performance from Villa though, Steve Bruce not a happy chappy.

 

 

Maybe it never happened :eusa_think:

 

 

 

 

 

Of course it did :lol: 

There's a tiny bit about it in The Mirror sport pages about four pages in, tucked away in a corner. Headline stuff :lol: 

It's almost as if the English press are insular and don't care about Scottish football. Tbf don't see why they should, it's no more relevant to them than Greek football. 

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44 minutes ago, Ross. said:

AEK looked content to sit in and hit on the break, and look to have made a success of that approach for a while now going by results over the last few years, but they can count themselves lucky that Celtic were piss poor with their finishing and even worse with their defending.

It's really not luck if AEK's game plan was to shitfest, hit on the break and wait for Celtic's defence to inevitably gift them unmissable chances.  

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15 minutes ago, The OP said:

It's almost as if the English press are insular and don't care about Scottish football. Tbf don't see why they should, it's no more relevant to them than Greek football. 

Tbh I'm now interested in hearing more about this pretty young sprinter lass...

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