Celtic v HJK Helsinki - Wed, 1 Aug K/O 19.45 - Live on Premier Sports.

We had 63% of the play, and 19 shots. As opposed to Helsinki, who only had 3 attempts at goal.

For anyone blinded by rage that we gave away a goal and weren't all-conquering in our first competitive fixture of the season, chill. We're still a team of champions.

 

No need for that

 

I think we showed tonight we have very few players at the levels some fans value them at.

Izzy, IMO, was hopeless. He gets caught out at the back umpteen times.

Samaras-lively start but then his slack game took over.

Brown - almost anonymous for me.

Wanyama- far better in midfield. He was caught out a few times tonight and also overplayed at times.

Lennon left the substitutions far too late too.

 

We are * awesome! Even sharper by next Wednesday were gonna smash them!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!

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We've watched our team lose 3 titles in a row to a * (albeit dead now) Rangers team, and haven't watched them in the Champions League for 4 seasons.

Now what makes you think we aren't realists? We know we aren't world beaters, we just don't like being insulted by ignorants.

 

Did anyone else think Lennys subs were strange tonight and left too late ?

 

He was being a fud and blatantly insulting our fanbase.

 

What better quality are we likely to face other than Molde or Basel?

 

I think we can face Zagreb which would be tricky. Might be wrong though.

 

Commons was a strange one for sure he was chapping at the bit for a goal then we took him off he looked gutted....

 

Yeah I thought that as well

 

we will humiliate the * in helsinki roll on next tie

 

I'm actually shocked at how poor Izaguirre has been throughout preseason and tonight. If their ever was a time to use the "no end product" statement, it's now.

 

Something defo needs to change with Scottish football, whether we were brilliant or * tonight is irrelevant, it's no coincidence that no Scottish team has qualified for a couple years and no-one except us and the huns have even got through qualifying for about 6 years.

We need a winter break and to start earlier in the summer, for too long we've tried to compete with the likes of England and Spain because we used to be as good as them but now they are just a million miles ahead of us and we need to be competing with similar countries like Finland, Austria, Sweden ect.

If the hun dickheads in charge of Scottish footy don't change things then it will get harder and harder for us to qualify each year.

For a club the size of Celtic to have to play 4 * games before we even get in the CL is just disgraceful.

 

mate off topic but i can't believe helsingborg won 3-0 tonight away from home!

 

I don't think our supporters expect too much but you've got to remember that for some of our fans, we've grew up with our dad's/grandad's stories of how good we once were (best team in the world) and seeing us losing away just about every away game in Europe really hurts. We won't tell you we're better than Manchester United but catch us at Celtic park on a good night and anything can happen. We have one of the best home records in Europe and that's seen the likes of Man u, Milan, Liverpool come here and leave without a win in the last while. We are not the same team, we don't expect the same results but we'll never lose our passion and belief that we CAN beat anyone in a 1 off match.

 

More stupid than strange .

 

You are.

Best teams we could play are Cluj, Partizan Belgrade/Limassol, Molde, Debrecen. Nothing too great if we avoid Cluj the rest arent much different a standard to Helsinki.

 

I think commons came off as he is revovering from injury.

 

Got back from the game half an hour ago.

Sore throat from shouting. Thought they got lucky with their goal and I hope we don't regret missing chances. Atmosphere was fantastic from when they scored up until around the 70 minute mark, then it just kind of died a bit.

Were any of the penalty shouts legit?