25 Feb 2014 18:53:01
CELTIC (4-3-1-2) Forster; Matthews, Van Dijk, Ambrose, Izaguirre; Brown, Biton, Mulgrew; Commons; Griffiths, Stokes
Subs: Zaluska, Samaras, Boerrigter, Balde, Pukki, Fisher, Forrest
dhman
No Stefan Johansen?
He's injured Mrs E
Tambhoy
Injured already?
Thanks Tam
He kicked the studs on someone's boot on Sunday and didn't recover. I am at a complete loss as to why Lennon persists with Samaras. If he wanted to be here he would have signed a contract. It's a massive slap in the face for Pukki or even Balde. We want people who want to be here playing. Not mercenaries who will only fight for a cause if the price is right.
I never seen that Pedro, must have been doing my housework such was the excitement of the Hearts game lol
I wouldn't persist with Sammy either, if he'd had a decent season then maybe but won't sign AND a poor season is just ridiculous!
I'm afraid it was only a matter of time b4 Ambrose made another howler. Van Dijk has been holding it 2gether at the heart of our defence for months now but it was only going to last so long, Ambrose is hopeless, plane and simple. We need and deserve a better CB in there beside Virgil.
I'm don't have a clue what formation that was suppose to b out there tonight. This is schoolboy stuff here, surely when u go down to 10 men u go 4-4-1?!
How was it Ambrose fault, Stokes dosn't go to McGinn and Mulgrew jumps under the ball, the other goal was a peach
Tambhoy
Agree Tam, said that to my mates tonight that Efe would become scapegoat tonight if we got beat after Virgil got sent off, from a couple a posts I've seen on social media sites it seems to be the case, not everyone blaming but a lot of people singling him out, Hayes goal worthy a winning any game, second goal was terrible but there was more than 1 that didn't do there job there, fair enough Aberdeen got the breaks tonight, they've done well against us this season even the games we beat them they more than competed with us, credit were credit due, a lot of people moan on here we no competition & iam no saying Aberdeen ready for title challenge but if they can keep lads like Pawleet (best midfielder in Scotland in my opinion), Mcginn & Hayes they no be far away. Just my opinion bhoys & ghirls
@tambhoy ambrose shouldn't even been on the pitch. Bit of a fud statement trying to defend him
We found out exactly how good this Celtic team is in europe, and it was against the worst Ajax/Milan team in decades. When we sold Wanyama & Hooper we lost our 2 best players, after them I really only think Lustig and maybe Brown could play for a top team. I don't rate Ambrose, never have, I have never seen him actually make a tackle, I mean a good old fashioned last ditch sliding tackle and winning the ball, which is an art. I know the modern defenders ideally like to stay on their feet, to avoid selling themselves, and I agree with that, but you should be able to do both. I also agree he is an easy scapegoat, technically Virgil is very good, but I think he is average defensively, not so much in the air, but when the ball is moving fast on the deck he isn't alert enough, he did something similar a couple of weeks ago at Parkhead and should have given away a penalty. But there is plenty there to work with regarding him, as for the rest of the team - I think we need 4 top quality players to be getting on with, also a coach with new ideas. I hate to keep going on about it but to have 3 coaches who all played the majority of their career under Martin O'neil is pointless. We need a progressive thinker like Brendan Rodgers/Martinez, we are obviously not going to get either of them, but we need the next one. I think if Manchester United could have one of them instead of Davie Moyes they would bite your hands of. Bottom line if you were to compare the coaching ideas of Moyes and Gaurdiola I think one would seem from the dark ages compared to the other.
I cannot believe neil lennon is blaming the referee in my opinion van dijk deserved to be sent off and as for the penalty claim if it was awarded it would have took over a minute to stop play and for the penalty to be taken and scored you didn't get the penalty and scored a minute later so why is he moaning. you could understand if you had not scored after not getting the penalty. I think that neil lennon just got his tactics wrong when van dijk was sent off he should have went to a 4-4-1 formation and played stokes as a lone striker but he didn't. he just needs to think sometimes before he makes these rash statements.
KP1888, one question was he at fault for the goal NO, so why is it a fud statement as you put it, until last night, how many minute's did we go before having a goal scored against us in the league, was he not part of the team that broke the record?, I will admit at time's he can be a bomb scare but last night was not his fault, I will slate player's when it's due but he did not deserve to be slated last night, the one who should be slated was VVD, the way Broony was slated after the Barca game but no we will just blame the scapegoat, unbelievable
Tambhoy