"Celtic Can Join Us In CL 16"- Lionel Messi

of course messi wants us to open up so they can score a shed load of goals and these guys forget that they are playing for fun if chelsea who had a far better team than us shut up shop home and away what do they expect from us. had benfica and spartak drew their game then we might have said lets go for it

 

I disagree that a backs to the wall performance is the only way for us to sneak anything. If we do that we will just be under the pressure we were for the last 20 mins in the Camp Nou for the whole game, and like that game, they will find a way through.

I'd like to see us get right in about them in midfield, keep Wanyama and Brown tight to Xavi and Iniesta, and Commons or Ledley on Busquets/Song (whoever plays at the base of the midfield three). They will play three in the midfield, we will almost certainly play five, which means we have extra men, and if we can catch them higher up the pitch we have a better chance of breaking forward with pace (our strongest form of attack) through Samaras or Forrest and getting the ball into Hooper. Barca lose most of their goals through fast breaks, and they lost another one like that last night - their defence is rank at the minute. We can score against them, and there is no reason to think we can't beat them at home. The key is getting a goal in the first half, and never ever letting the tempo drop. Keep the ball away from the midfield, and the defence can worry about Messi.

Celtic 2-1 Barcelona.

 

Jesus * mate this is a * strange comment.

 

What the * business is it of yours?

 

ive seen nothing to be afraid of from benfica or spartak, so its all about the barca game , yeah i know we could finish last in the group but theres lots of football to be played ,i dont like the arrogance of assuming your going to top the group however likely it is
barca players can keep on saying how they deserved that win and implicating that we played a negative game,they know fine well they were lucky as * , i can remember forster making two saves and villa hitting the post it wasnt as if it was shooting practice for them. barca arent the team they were last year and nowhere near as good as two years ago
they dont like it when the opposition works as hard as they do

 

It's not arrogance it's belief.

 

Especially when the kid was born on Friday.

 

He did not miss the childs birth.

Who the * are you to say if someone gets married or not.

Absolute scummy * of a post.

 

The overpaid * gang will receive a bloodletting at Parkhead. I hope Wanyama does a Duscher tackle on Messi.

 

Fairly generic comments with the usual dollop of self righteousness you get from Barca, messi and co force teams to sit deep whether they want too or not. We attacked when we could with the players we had at our disposal.

 

What's it got to do with you? *.

 

"* child" * sake.

 

Thats nothing but a horrible post mate, makes ya look like a * to be honest. Really uncalled for.

 

I'm absolutely convinced we could have hurt them more if Sammy didn't get injured.

 

That's fairly big words for a rather unknown player

 

".......if we play like we can we will win". Cheeky wee *.

We'll see about that in the final. If Barca make it that far. :bbpd:

 

He's right, to be fair. If they play at all like they can they will win.

 

No way. We're a far superior team to Barca. We just let them have the ball to lull them into a false sense of security. Messi's comment shows that they've fallen for our plan hook, line and sinker. :icon_mrgreen:

 

Yep, Neil Lennon truly is an evil genius. Mwahahahahaha!