Celtic v Shakter Karagandy UCL Qualifier 20th Aug, KO 4pm, Live on ITV4

I applaud your commitment:smiley-laughing002:

 

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Matthews Mouyokolo Mulgrew Izaguirre
Brown Kayal Ledley Boerrigter
Samaras Balde​

An average height there of about 6ft/6ft 1 I reckon. Also very cpable of playing football. Matthews and Izaguirre bombing down the wings with Boerrigter, Samaras and Balde to aim at.

Why is this game on Tuesday by the way?

 

Good line up but not sure if I'd play with two big men up top. They have a very tall team, taller than ours. Reckon we should try and keep it on the deck, but if they two are upfront players might be tempted to punt it.

 

That's a good point. But Balde and Samaras are both very fond of running with the ball and getting it on the deck. So I wouldn't really be worried about that. They just give us a plan B.

 

Half the qualifiers are on Tuesday and half are on Wednesday, same as the group and latter stages. Our return leg will be on the Wed.

I can't see boerrgter starting this one, I think Commons will be in for him and possibly Stokes for Balde. Although I would be very happy with that team.

 

Lets get Physical, physical

 

They have some beautiful women over there in Kazakhstan.

This team is nothing to worry about though. Unless our team is playing like they did in Germany we literally have nothing to worry about.

We couldnt have gotten an easier draw.

 

frasier
lustig big steve charlie izzy
brown ledley
commons
forrest amido sammy

dont want to risk dirk on the plastic

 

When I first saw this, I thought, who the * is Big Steve?

Then I remembered our new CH Mouyokolo's given name is Steven and I felt pretty dumb

Anyways I hate to say but I dont think he has the experience. With what we've got I think I'd rather chance Efe there. And I am sure the manager will pick the same.

 

:bbpd: Thanks, mate! that's "you are welcome" in kazakh)

 

I've looked through different forums of Celtic fans and noticed many questions, why we, Kazakhstan, play in Europe.

Kazakhstan's tiny part lies in Europe geographically, but that tiny part is larger than many european countries, e.g. Austria.

See the second pic. in the link [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe"]Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

We have many different beers (mostly imported: Heineken, Hoegarden, Guinness, Kozel, Staropramen...) but if you wanna taste local ones these are Karagandinskoe and Shymkentskoe. And if you have difficulties communicating in english in Astana, try to speak to younger generation, they might speak a little english. But since knowledge and income is correlated, most english speaker will be driving cars and random people in the street not likely to speak english

 

Is Samaras still good as at the Euro 2012? if yes he can make a lot of troubles to Shakter(

I personally think Shakter will play against Celtic as Chelsea vs Barca. And hopefully we will be as lucky as Chelsea in semi-finals.

 

I'd say Samaras is even better than he was at Euro 2012, mate. Last season was probably the best of his career.

 

That's bad news for us( I really liked him at Euro. He was THE warrior on the pitch. BTW Samaras played in Kazakhstan as a member of U-21 team of Greece in 2005 if i remember

 

That map shows Turkey as not a part of Europe though even though they are in talks to join the EU. Look, no harm to you guys but we shouldn't be playing you, Kazakhstan is not in Europe.

 

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Matthews Lustig Mouyokolo Izaguirre

Mulgrew

Commons Brown Ledley Samaras

Balde

 

Kazakhstan has got territory in Europe, it is just not an EU member.

 

Gentlemen, I have no intention to be unfriendly indeed. I'll give you just some arguments in favour of Kazakhstan's being in UEFA.

1) Go and ask your local geography dep experts in Unis to find out that Europe in east starts from Ural mountain ridge and goes along the ridge to the south all the way down along Ural river to Caspain Sea (that's why Russia is in UEFA, and we also have rights to be there). So geographically, we have a part of Kazakhstan in Europe, as Turkey does (Europe for Turkey starts from Bosfor and Dardanella channels), whils our European part, unlike Turkish part, is much more larger than dozen of pure European countries like Wales, Austria, Czech, Belgium.....

2) We have more rights to play in UEFA than Israel or Cyprus, which have absolutely no geographical presence in Europe.

Hope this clears some of your concerns. In mentality we are closer to europeans than to asians

 

If they are a big team and physic I would go;

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Lustig Muoykolo Van Dijk Mulgrew

Brown Ledley

Samaras Commons Boeriggter

Balde