Dundee United Vs. Celtic, Match thread

jan played well,ffs ,comeon gordon

 

Was no surprize really infact nothing the manager does surprizes me anymore he,s made far to many crazy,wild, extrodinary desicions in his time that anything he says or does is no shock to me anymore!!!

 

Few points...

The mark of an idiot: Doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results.

First goal: Nobody attacks the ball apart from Sandaza, how the * are you supposed to keep the header out if it's on target? If you're all standing still in an area and he comes running into an area and attacks it, what are you supposed to do?

Second goal: This was even worse, criminal defending. Why was EVERY Celtic player back, standing on the 6 yard line? Surely if we play a man-marking system, somebody would go out with Sandaza? Also, why the * was the guy who crossed it given so much space. Terrible.

Zonal marking has to go, it's been our downfall too many times. Why won't he change it? He's too * stubborn.

It's a well-known fact that McGeady has a horrible time against that Kovacevic. Which is why McGeady started on the right, and we were getting some joy. So why in the 2nd half was McGeady then playing on the left? Poor move there.

All McDonald does is moan at his team-mates, yet when he * up, which is too often for my liking, he puts on a little smile and pretends everything is OK. It's not OK that you miss chances from inside the box every match. One took a bobble, fair enough. But the one he hit straight at Zaluska was just pathetic. It was a beautiful height for any GK. Also, why the * does he blast a pass at his team-mates. Next Henrik Larsson? * off.

People who think McGeady is some kind of Lionel Messi superstar need to open their eyes. No final ball at all. When he was through on the GK, why did he not cut inside on to his left, which means the defender either has to bring you down, or you've got a free shot at goal.

Also in the first half, we countered, all he had to do was play a ball across for McDonald. Goal. What does he do? He plays the cross to Zaluska.

Anybody who says Jan had a shocker today needs to open their eyes. Aye, he done nothing. But he's a targetman, like it or lump it, that's what he is. The delivery to him today was shocking, what do you expect from him, to go on Johan Cruyff wonder runs? Get a grip.

Caldwell should have buried his chance, but if he did, I doubt Naylor would have scored that beauty, so it doesn't really matter, it's just worrying that we're missing these chances.

Anybody who thinks today was a fair result is wrong IMO. We had far more chances than they did. They troubled us twice and scored. We had McDonald missing chances, shots cleared off the line, our CB up missing from 6 yards out. We deserved that.

I hope Hearts get 3rd place because DUTD are cheats. Boruc lying on the ground, Lee Wilkie won't let him get up to throw the ball out. Exact same thing with McDonald on the deck. Kenneth wasting time, taking throw-ins about 10 yards further forward. Gomes and Buaben diving all over the place. Levein had the cheek to call Hearts cheats? Open your eyes pal.

 

Those type of comments from strachan do my balls in, but i understand why he said it, doesn't want to knock Jan's confidence down any further than it already is

 

The only reason i think he gave him the armband today was mibbe to give him a wee confidence boost , didn't really do much though did it? Thats the only reason i can think of.

The big man has been great for us in the past, but the past is the past and i think his time is nearly up

 

He's always been vice-captain. And also, if he gets made captain, maybe it'll help his confidence?

It's far worse for his confidence if he knows he's vice captain, yet someone else gets the armband when the first-choice captain is out injured.

 

I expect Gordon to give the defense a roasting. True, Stephen and Glenn were out, but we should've defended better. As soon as I saw JVoH in the lineup, I knew Mizuno would fit in well. But, he didn't go in, and here's our draw. Flood blew his chance up dearly.

 

Didn't see the game today, but i've been aying for ages to get McDonald out, he's a moany wee bawbag half the time and is an spl standard player when he's not got someone playing well next to him

Samaras is a much better player and would score goals if skippy wsn't moanin the face off him all the time, Skippy is having a bad influence on other strikers performance i feel

But DU have played well against us all year, they have a good system and its worrying we can't break them down.

We need a settled team intstead of this constant flitting about and after the Int break we'll hopefully get that

C'mon guys not long to go now, 4 in a row here we come lets get behind the Bhoys

 

Are you taking the *? McDonald is one of our best players.

 

We could have won the game, but also could have lost it.

We are still 3 points ahead.

9 games to go.

Aiden played very well

 

3 points would have been nice but we have to make do with 1. Utd are a * good team when motivated though why Loovens was left out is beyond me. Fed up of Samaras/JVOH e-mailing in their performances too.

 

Relieved after being 2-1 down but a golden opportunity was wasted.

 

Thought Samaras was better than he has been recently. Agree with Messi on Jan... without service what is he supposed to do? Thought Brown was a little bit poor today. Thought the defense was horribly disorganized today... hopefully that is remedied with McManus. Thought Flood was extremely poor. Thought Crosas should have replaced Hartley after the first goal to calm the midfield down. Thought McGeady played well, even did well against Kovacevic.

We should have won, we didn't. Rangers should have won yestarday, they didn't. We still have a 3 point lead and we play Falkirk and Hamilton at home for our next two games. Any dropped points there is unacceptable. We are still in the driver's seat I believe as I know we can beat Rangers even if it is at Ibrox. I said yestarday not to get too high so I guess today I'll say don't get too low.

 

what are you on about man? the team played great against a very good utd team,big jan i thought played ok he came back and helped out the defese apart from the goal....its not that bad

 

Not the worst point ever but we should be winning these games.

A captain has to lead by example, so he picks Jan...FFS. Maybe it was to give him some confidence but it never worked.
Why would O'Dea get a game at CB when Loovens played a blinder in the same position in the last game? Unless he was injured.
Brown was unusually quiet.
McGeady was decent.
Venegoor and Samaras should be shown the door.

 

I agree. We could of given ourselves a decent gap but from now we need to get on a winning run so we dont lose the gap we have.

I think the manky lot will drop points but im not confident we wont unless we do something about our consistency.

Still think 4 in a row is coming.

 

No imo Samaras is a better all round player

 

with a wee bit of consistency we would have won the league weeks ago.

the game wasn't that bad at all, but I don't say we gained one point today, we lost two. should have finished the game in the first half.

 

Oh well, could have been a * of a lot worse. We will still almost certainly be 6 ahead before the Huns play again and they are always a good bet to fold under the pressure that comes from that.

We should have put them away in the first half and you knew right from the off in the second that we weren't going to win it. They just don't lose in those circumstances. Maybe Vennegoor could have done better for the equaliser and we were slow to react for their second but to be honest they were always going to score today.

Next time Bhoys, no worrys. Thank Ghod for Lee Naylor, the white Roberto Carlos!

 

its not the end of the world lads still 3 clear!! and the huns still have utd to play dont they?