[Official TC Thread] Celtic F.C v Paris Saint-Germain; Tuesday 12 Sept, 7.45pm. BT Sport 3

Nothing to worry about Tony will be fine if he plays.

 

Ralston looked well out his depth to me against astana. Terrified in possession. This is not the game to be throwing him in. He is the last resort for me.

 

I would've said "Neymar" and as he came over thinking it was a picture, showed him the gif of the Colombian doing him and putting him out for month's..

 

Indeed. PSG are a * wee club who have 6 league titles, 4 of which came after 2012. You'd think the main club in Paris would've had more success considering the French league isn't great although it obviously used to be stronger before the fall of the old elites there. Exactly the kind of * that's made me only care about Celtic.

 

Nothing to worry about.

 

I hope your right packy as there is a player there. From what ive seen though gamboa and ajer would be in ahead of him for tomorrow.

 

THE likelihood is PSG will have them gasping for air.

But as long as the French giants have Celtic players breathing heavily down their necks, Brendan Rodgers will be a happy man.

It promises to be exhausting work stopping the likes of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani at Parkhead on Tuesday evening.

They don’t cost over £400million for nothing, you know.

But while boss Rodgers reminds everyone of the enormity of the task his players face in tonight’s Champions League opener, he demands his side get up close and personal.

He said: “I think it should be a great spectacle.

“In these types of games attitude is everything.

“You can’t look too closely at them, or think too emotionally.

“PSG are put together to win this competition, there’s no doubt about that. They’ve brought in Neymar and Mbappe who is an amazing young striker, so their focus is clearly on winning it.

“But we have a courage to play and a courage physically to press and work.

“I always say, if you stand off top class players, they’ll show you why they’re top class.

“But we can be educated in our pressure. I’m also looking forward to seeing how we counter attack.

“This is a level where you have to stay calm. But it’s a game we’re really looking forward to.

“Maybe not many people were watching the Hamilton Accies game on Friday night, but certainly the eyes of the world will be on this game.

“This is a game to go and enjoy. Make no bones about it, this is a superior team to us. That’s the reality of it with the quality of the players and where they’re at.

“But for us we take an attitude into the game. We’re very much a team and have the ability to play in this type of game.

“We have speed, strength and power so it’s a great chance for us to make a good start. It’s going to be a big challenge for us but one we’re determined to embrace.

“They have to feel us breathing very close to them.

“That’s how we play domestically and it’s how we play in other games in this competition.

“You can’t do it for 90 minutes so you have to dip in and out of the pressure. But it’s our job to progress with real aggression.”

Rodgers has thought long and hard about how to approach the mouthwatering Group B game.

He’s even sat his men down and asked them about their experiences of standing toe-to-toe with the best players in the world.

Rodgers, for instance, quizzed Jozo Simunovic on going up against Leo Messi a year ago, with the Celtic defender giving him a surprising insight.

Rodgers added: “I remember talking to Jozo last year and I said ‘go on and tell me, what was it like to face Messi?’

“He told me ‘every time I turned round he was staring at me!’

“Jozo just said ‘he was looking at me and it unnerved me.

“That’s the level of player — the likes of Messi and Suarez don’t go to the ball, the ball comes to them. All they are looking for is the space.

“When they see a guy move they move. Messi last year was just watching and waiting for his moment as you saw for his first goal and when they sense it they have the speed to get in there.

“They also have the technique to finish. You don’t get that look in Scotland — well you do but they might be looking for something else!

“They stare in a physical way — ‘what are you doing big yin?’

“But the players are in the cauldron. I’m a coach and I see the game but it’s important to ask a player what they learned.

“I asked Mikael Lustig what he’s gained from playing against Neymar four times. It’s important because these are the guys in the game.

“Us coaches can see things, the media make the right passes from the stand but the guys who are on the pitch are in a different sport altogether.

“It’s important to get the feedback from them.

“There’s also maybe something you can share with another player.”

Money talks in world football these days with PSG’s riches seeing them shout from the rooftops. The likes of Celtic just cannot keep up.

Rodgers said: “Money does dictate things, that’s the simplicity of it.

“We now have to go through an extra qualification phase next year and that’s for one reason; to give the other leagues with more financial clout an extra place.

“The countries with the teams with the most money are getting the extra places. And the nations that don’t quite have that financial clout have to go through a harder pathway.

“That’s a frustration because a club like this with the history and tradition it has — this is a huge club.

“But it’s something that you have to do and until it changes and we get ten billionaires coming to Scotland it’s what we have to do.

“There has to be a sense of reality.

“We talk about making a mark on the group — with Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich, and Anderlecht.

“You cannot get carried away and try to pretend that we are something we are not.

“We are a club playing in a country where we have to fight our way through — we have a budget where one of their players would get paid more.

“That’s the reality of where we’re at.

“So I don’t think anyone would say we were insignificant if we didn’t come out the group stages.

“But of course, for our own performance level and for the nation, we are trying to gain credibility.

“And obviously, as professionals, we want to continue in Europe until after Christmas.

“But you have to understand the size of the task. It’s not just Playstation. It’s top, top players we are playing.”

 

Cheers

 

I didn't want to post here but I can't let you say that.
I hate what most of my club has become but you can't say we were were a * wee club. We were created in 1970 and in only 25 years we won a C2 and beat Barca in Champions League and reach semi-finals. Not to mention the players we had (Weah, Ginola, Rai...).

 

Don't want to doubt brendans judgement, as he has rarely made mistakes during his wonderful stay here, but i don't think ralston starting is a good idea. Even if you have reservations against gamboa i still feel he would be a much better choice. Guess it beats bitton at CB.

 

You are a * wee club.

 

A * club then

 

Gamboa has never had any sustained game time under br ,indeed the manager could have thrown him on in the Scottish cup final when Tierney got injured and chose not to ,
There is obviously a reason he doesn't play here, and I can't understand how anyone can form any opinion that he would be a better option based on not seeing much of him ,he may have pace and not much else .

 

I honestly think we'll catch them on the hop tomorrow and get a result.

It would be an upset, but our team is more than capable of causing sides like this problems.

 

Gordon
Ralston Lustig Jozo Tierney
Brown Ntcham
Armstrong
Roberts Griff Sinclair ​

 

Love the optimism.