Qarabag v Celtic- Wednesday 5th August, K.O 17.30, live on BT Sports

Gordon

Lustig Boyata Van Dijk Izaguirre

Brown Bitton

Mackay-Steven Johansen Armstrong

Ciftci​

Fancy a 1-1 draw tbh, got a feeling Ciftci will get his first goal as well.

 

Same here. All we need is the one goal and we're effectively through. So they're going to be cautious as *.

Although by the sounds of it, they think they're * Barcelona going off what they're saying. So maybe they will even be complacent defensively.

 

I hope Johansen plays deeper tomorrow.

 

I can see it being a very slow game tomorrow to conserve energy. Compact and deep defending. Long balls up front.

 

No, just no. He doesn't have the concentration level to play deep that's already been proven. Much better keeping the team pressing high up the pitch.

 

Gordon
Lustig Boyata Van Dijk Izaguirre
Brown Bitton
Armstrong Johansen Ciftci
Griffiths​

 

In front of Bitton but next to Brown we need to keep our defensive shape.

A 4-2-3-1 can leave us too exposed we need to defend our lead and counter well.

 

Why would you leave GMS out when this mob need to come out for a goal, leaving space

 

This has got disaster written all over it - uncomfortable conditions ( weather, pitch, full house ), our European away record, the fact that we don`t seem to know who our best striker is, only a narrow lead to defend etc

It will be another Karagandy only this time we go 2 down early then start panicking and get a man sent off (Brown or Johansson). Que desperate attempts to chase the game that sees us losing 4-1.

Europa is probably more our level anyway.

 

We cannot once again settle for the Europa League.

 

I hear you pal

But but we need to think positive , * it we will HAVE to do these *

 

Agree mate. I hope I am totally wrong but I worry if we have the quality and experience to handle this game if it starts going wrong.

 

Apart from Inter ( when we should have done) we have scored in our last 8 euro away games though. I think we will score over there.

 

Just caved and got bt sports. C'mon Celtic

 

Starting to get nervous about this one and get the trepidation voiced.

We are in part reliant on Dundee United's attacking force of last season to get us to the CL group stages it's asking a lot of those players to make the step up all at the same time.

We need big performances from Gordon, Virgil, Johansen and Broonie to see us through.

And Ronny needs to get his tactics spot on.

 

Game in danger of postponement cos of the state of the pitch

 

Jesus christ lads this is qarabag not barcelona or real madrid- if we get a goal i would sayy we will go through quite easily- we are a good side i fancy johansen to get us a goal

 

Yep can't see them getting three, just need to make sure we can get a goal in the first half or early in the second. We got this!

 

If we sit too deep we will struggle to counter, Johansen will work back anyway but need him pressing high up and picking up the ball behind the striker. They need to come out attacking so that's our advantage just outscore them which we are very capable of doing.