Partick Thistle v Celtic (11th Feb, K.O 19:45, LIVE ON SKY SPORTS 1)

Starting to take shape now.

I'm sure most of us had doubts for a while, with many were a lot vocal than that, but the feel good factor is now rising fast.

There is a different atmosphere between the players, the fans and just everyone with each other.

Long may it continue.

 

Coz they are Anti-Celts.

 

What a way to start your Celtic career for Makay-Steven and Armstrong with debut goals and all in all very good performances. As we have been the last month we controlled the game all but completely from minute one to the last minute. Build up a 2-0 lead and pretty much managed the game from that point on. Given Aberdeen don't play till Sunday we can go 6 points clear and really put them under pressure now if we can win in Perth on Saturday. What was impressive today and has been since the turn of the new year was how much we are controlling the tempo and pace of games and really just not giving the opposition hardly a look in even.

 

For those that haven't seen the highlights.

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I think in the case of Mackay-Steven, it was more down to the fact he knocked his pan in for the time he was on the park. He seemed to be everywhere first half, and put in an incredible amount of work. I wasn't surprised to see him tire. It has took up until the past month or so for our players to fully understand what Ronny wants from the pressing side of things, both Armstrong & Mackay-Steven will improve on that as time goes on.

 

Time to start a STJ match thread somebiddy

 

The league is far from over we are 1 slip up away from it being in Aberdeen's hands ie if they match us result for result and beat us in the 2 remaining fixtures. We need to keep it up because we are fighting on 4 fronts and the split is not a cake walk anymore.

 

Give it a rest. It is miles away from "being in Aberdeen's hands", what a stupid statement.

 

Chill the beans princess i am merely stating a fact that if we slip up and they win the rest of their games they will be champions. By definition this scenario would mean it was in their hands. The more distance we keep the better because we have a lot of games coming up and the likelihood of league slip ups increases, hence why we need to maintain our form

 

Why Og 1 Are you so negative , I don't think Jim McGuinness attained the success he achieved with Donegal by looking towards defeat just around the corner . Surely Aberdeen are in greater danger of the league slipping out of their hands .

 

And if we draw our remaining games with Aberdeen and then both us and Aberdeen lose the rest of our games then the league will be a straight shoot out between Callie T and Dundee Utd.

 

Aye I thought the same in that match, Flood, Robson and Pawlett were all over us and dominated the midfield.

Part of it was due to tactics though, up till then we were solid and I think were on the big clean sheet run yet in that game I think Mulgrew was injured, rather than bring in Bitton, we disgarded the holding player for another forward and think we went with Brown and Johansen in a midfield 2 and got outdone in the midfield, we've even seen this season that they two cant play together in there.

Aye it was, Mulgrew got injured the game before. We were on a run of 10 wins in a row with 10 clean sheets in them all playing the Diamond midfield with Mulgrew holding. Then he missed that and we swapped to

Brown Johansen
Forrest Commons Samaras
Stokes​

 

We did. We went with Brown & Johansen in the middle, with Commons playing behind Stokes, and we had Samaras and I'm sure it was Forrest on the other wing. Shocking tactics from Lennon, and didn't change it either if I remember correctly, even after it become apparent we were getting totally overrun. Our season effectively ended that day.

 

Aye, although looking at results it was a great end to the season, we were scoring for fun, we scored 39 goals in the last 11 games of the season. To go back 39 goals from now this season was 20 games ago, so we were scoring near enough double the goals then.

 

Doesn't take away the fact, that at this point last season, we had been horsed out of everything. I know what situation I would rather be in. I said it a few times, but one thing Deila did which was very important, was win the one off cup games. Even when we weren't playing well, we hung in there, and managed to get through.

 

Aye more exciting to be chasing trophies at the end of the season.

 

Pawlett was the best player on the park that day.

 

Definitely.

 

What would you choose at the moment though, to win home and away against Inter but lose the two Dundee Utd games or to lose home and away against Inter but win the two Dundee Utd games.

Tough choice for me as when you're this close to the Treble you want to see it through but knocking out Inter would be superb, Martin O'Neill days type stuff. I'd go for knocking out Inter.