I'll channel surf.Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
arsenal on SS2, I'll be watching Celtic 100%, am a United fan too but it doesn't begin to compare to a CL game at ParkHead, especially considering United are away, and I think RTE should be showing the Celtic game. This time last year I was enjoying a few pre-match pints in Glasgow before the Milan home leg
Havin a weekend away is quite frankly,lettin ur team mates down!
That temptation is there alright, but I hate flitting between matches. I'd much prefer to watch one properly than half watch two. My friend had the remote last night and was flicking between the Real and Liverpool games as he had bets on, and we ended up missing Kuyt's goal.Just not good enough!
Hate the way RTE virtually always shows MU even if there are much better games on, Arse and Celtic games are defo more exciting than MU vs Lyon
I'm puzzled about why Van Nistleroy's goal against Roma was given offside last night. He was in an offside position when the initial shot came in, but wasn't involved in the play or blocking the keeper (so no offence there), the ball rebounded to him from the keeper (so no offence, as the ball wasn't played to him from his teammate) and he stuck it in. So what was the offside decision given for?
Hate watching games in pubs hopefully Mc Geady does the business tonight and John O Shea comes off the bench and scores a hat-trick.
In Trap we trust
Good game this Celtic and Barcelona one, Barca are out of this world at times. What I'd give for a Barca - Arsenal at full strength final too
Probably the best I've ever seen Barca play. To play such inventive quick passing and still have a pass success rate of about a million percent, unreal. Celtic playing 5 attackers helped and you could have predicted a good game when the teams were announced.
I'm off to see Barca Sunday so fingers crossed they carry this form with them into the La Liga game!
Men against bhoys. One of the most one sided games I have seen in a long time. Kamikazi defending mind you gifted 2 of the goals to Barca but some of the one touch football by Barca was of the highest quality. However, Celtic looked like a pub side and McGeady had to wait 20 minutes almost for his first touch. This from a Celtic acquaintance of mine:
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Bloody awful performance by Celtic tonight. Have to go back a long way to find a showing as poor as that in Europe. Made Barca look much better than they really are, as evidenced by scoring twice with virtually our only two strikes on goal in the whole game.
In reality, it should have been 5 or 6-2 to Barca, not because they were especially brilliant but because we were truly awful. Credit to Barca - they're a fine team, but we made them look even better...
Most of our lads went missing for the 90, with honourable mentions only for Skippy and young Caddis in the first half. Naka, McGeady, Hartley... poor, poor, poor. Robson was totally out of his depth too, despite his goal.
As for our defending, don't get me started... chickens and headless are the only two words to describe it.
Tonight proves, yet again, just how detrimental it is for Celtic to be stuck in a league as poor as the SPL. We will never progress in Europe as long as we have to play in that tiny, shallow pond that is the SPL.
The sooner we get into the EPL, the better.
If Swansea, Cardiff and Wrexham are allowed to join, why can't we?
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Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I don't think he's doing Barca any justice there. As I said, Celtic playing 5 attacking players helped Barca but they were absolutely amazing.
I think probably Man Utd and Barca have been the 2 teams to have more possession than Celtic at Celtic park in about 4 years. They completely dominated possession last night though.
/edit - and McGeady? What was wrong with him?
Last edited by eirebhoy; 21/02/2008 at 9:29 AM.
Fair play to Barca with all the possession passing etc, but I can't help feeling we were our own worst enemy last night. being overly critical all 3 goals were preventable. for the 1st, Messis one-two with Deco was too easy, Hartley was in the team to protect the back line yet Deco found himself in acres 20 yards out to put Messi in for a great finish in fairness.
the 2nd was put on a plate for henry by Caldwells hopeless pass, why he didn't go long (and it was more than just that time) I don't know, JVOH was doing well in the air.
the 3rd was a bit unlucky but McManus should be getting more on his clearence.
Felt the full backs did ok though Naylor drifted off messi too much, Robson was out of his depth big time, Hartley was surprisingly poor same for Naka, McGeady had a good 1st half but disappeared in the 2nd (due to the 80-20 possession stats). the 2 front men battled well.
ah well, theres always the return leg
EB did you think the support wasn't great in the 2nd half? I thought it was very dead which is disappointing
Havin a weekend away is quite frankly,lettin ur team mates down!
When the opposition have the ball 75% of the time, it's hard for the crowd to have anything to get excited about.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I thought the crowd were still excellent though. Singing when Barca were dominating.
I liked the tri-colour behind the goal at the start made by fans holding cards.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
thats done at every home CL game
Maybe I didn't hear/wasnt listening right but thought there was a marked difference in the singing in the 2 halfs. Its when the teams under that sort of pressure that the crowd needs to lift it, more so than when they are in the lead/on top. the more annoying thing though was plenty people heading out with 5mins to go, they were only a goal behind at the end of the day and anything can happen in football.
Suppose its easy for me to say all this watching the game in the comfort of my own sitting room though
Havin a weekend away is quite frankly,lettin ur team mates down!
Major blow for Arsenal-Toure out for 3 weels at least-in both CL and PL.I have gotta feeling it could be Chelsea for the CL.
My prediction of Milan stopping Arsenal from scoring was good anyway.
A stat came up towards the end of the celtic game which said that barcelona had made 500 passes while celtic had made something like 170 with about 80% completion for barca and 60% for celtic. barcelona absolutely murdered celtic in general play. i had a bet on celtic not to lose and i knew after seeing the first half that there was no way it was going to win.
No matter how superb Barca were last night it was no excuse for a horrendous 2nd half display, the worst I have seen from Celtic at home in the CL. The 2nd half was one long tissue of errors, they were reduced to bumbling embarrassing standards. Even had the sight of Ronaldinho closing down and forcing the ball to be hoofed out.
The effective intelligent defensive work of Messi, Henry and Ronaldinho prevented any Celtic passing game wheres McDonald and JVOH just do a lot of running with no effect on closing down.
How much of the game did Barca play with just 2 defenders holding a high line? Puyol looked like he was holding a RM position for most of the game
Time for Celtic to get a good Italian coach
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