Aberdeen 2 - 3 Celtic

Forgot tynecastle aswell mate

 

Too close for comfort in that second half.

Another big win though. Need to keep taking it game by game as we have been. That second half just shows how quickly things can turn if we take our foot of the gas.

 

Even the best ever Celtic teams need to dig one out mate, sometimes we need to scrape and battle and dig in.

That was again another side to a fabby wee team in the making.....just enjoy it mate.

 

If Jota’s goal stands just before half time, which it should have, then the second half is a formality. The first goal we lost is the oldest trick in the book, and there was nobody within a few yards of Ramirez. The second goal is something we have been familiar with over the last few years. Brilliant finish from Jota for the winner. That second half was really really poor from us though. We just never got going at all.

 

Another win thats all that matters . Thats 3 very hard games we have had and won all of them may it continue

 

Plus most teams using those tactics noo, blocking at set plays to get someone in for a shot .

 

We've seen those given though. I fully expected the whistle. Felt almost as good as scoring when the whistle never came.

 

It certainly didn't help. Our problems defensively aren't really from the individuals, our defenders won the majority of their battles. It's more the awareness of the opposition running off the ball, picking up 2nd balls, things like that. The collective is the problem rather than the individuals.

 

My bad,I was under the impression that they had ran up a score

 

Too much paralysis by analysis and not enough gloating about being top of the league after that run!

 

I don’t even think Abada was offside for our third.

 

Will take that. Not the prettiest but important thing is that we come out on top. Job done.

 

The bottom line is we won and we are still top of the league. At this stage that is all that matters. We have the cup now at the weekend so a chance to play some guys not playing regularly like Welsh, Forrest; Bitton etc. The only negative for me is that Maeda is not impressing me ATM. Yes a hard worker and very fast but one thing for sure- he is no Kyogo and the sooner we get him back the sooner he fires us to the title.

 

Second half was poor after a good first half. I think we had to make some changes earlier as we lost control of the midfield. However we won the game and that is all that matters. We get a wee rest with the cup game and hopefully are able to have nice rotation for the European game. Just got to keep it going now. All that matters are we're top.

 

Thing. Is weve e been pish in second half and is is a worry and you definitely think fitness issues , its a strange one cause twice in the second half at Dingwall and Dutd we’ve been drawing going into 75 minutes and went a man down and we’ve looked like the team with the extra man and turned 1 point into 3 points twice in the dying minutes of injury time, definite boot up the * we needed without any damage been down, big wake up call

 

Pitch looked very swampy which would've troubled the Japanese bhoys. Japanese pitches are always like carpet and I noted both Hatate and Maeda getting the ball trapped under their feet tonight. They were shoved around a lot too and got * all from the ref, so Ange will have to get them playing with a tennis ball in a cow paddock while the rest of the lads attack them with 4x2s.

Then they'll be ready for Pittodrie next year.

 

Thought our midfield was poor all game. Was hard to tell what our shape was and who was doing what all game - and not in a good way. Thought Calmac got squeezed out of the game even in the first half and that hurt us. Hatate and O'Reilly couldn't really get into the game.

 

In fairness, haven't they just completed a full J-League season?

As much as I love the Japanese players, we've got to be careful with them.

 

Defo , invited pressure onto us by dropping off , not pressing and giving space to put balls into our box