[Matchday] Celtic v Bodo/Glimt February 17th BT Sport 2 kick off 8PM

Couldn't agree more. There's way too much catastrophizing among our support. We've lost to a team who should have earned everyone's respect long before this.

We're a team on the rise. We've added some real quality, but we're still building this thing. It seems like we have a lot of supporters who are determined to go tonto after every set-back. It's tiresome.

 

Can be added to Malmö, Copenhagen, Midtjyland amongst others where by we just say they were a good team and look to move on whilst not realising these clubs are streets ahead of us in Europe. The days of teams fearing coming to Celtic Park are long long gone

 

This competition was always a bonus and not a priority - yes we should be capable of fighting on all fronts but league is just too important this year for champions league qualification and crushing the Huns financially.

That said the performance tonight showed why Ange says there is still a long way to go for this team and still areas we can improve in the summer

 

Credit where credit is due, Knutsen has done a remarkable job there over the past few years, and B/G are a really well drilled team, even when moving some players on, he is knowing what he is doing, how to set a team up and how to nullify opponants.

Even though we have been playing good football, maybe a hint of complacency or underestimating the opposition, maybe simply got the team selection wrong tonight at the start, whatever it is, it's not the end of the world. There is still next week, but even then, would prefer a loss here than in the league or the Cup. Maybe a loss tongiht after winning so much will give a bit of the kick up the * to everyone and make sure it doesnt happen again.

Although Taylor quite clearly is out of his depth.

 

Incredibly poor, but we've got enough goals in us to win the tie. Looking forward to seeing if Ange has the tactical ability to turn this around. Would rather test it here in this non competition than domestically.

That being said, I want to win every competition we're in, so very very disappointed.

We should be looking not just at some of their players, who all looked very good, but also whoever is head of their recruitment

 

Great lessons learned tonight. Be interesting how Ange approaches next week with hibs away 3 days later. It's ALL about the league

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He was a one man midfield at.times.tonigjt, especially the first half, massive holes to try and fill

 

That was a tough watch tonight.

We were pants all across the park tonight. Our defending was brutal, ball watching at it’s finest. Starfelt and Taylor… geez. Even our usual performers McGregor, CCV, Juranovic, Jota were all having an off night. Weren’t even doing the basics.

Well played Bodo, had our number tonight and suspect you will also have it on the plastic.

What gets me the most though is that we let ourselves down.

 

i can tell your a glass half full type! ill back it up with ,we cant play that poorly again

 

Age old problem of allowing players to run into areas of the pitch with no one picking them up and the struggle we have in breaking down teams that know how to sit in defensively

 

I think that's a great assessment of the game , he is respected in Scandinavia ,bigger clubs bigger egos more arrogance, top players get rid of managers when it's not going well straight away .

 

The only positive from tonight is that there were no injuries.

 

If they were top quality they wouldn't be playing in this conference pish.

 

Mate, I know the game is just finished, but hopefully you wont feel that way tomorrow or the next day.

Ferencvaros, Malmo, Cluj, Sparta Prague, Maribor, AEK Athens, are all magnitudes above the embarrassment of tonight. Every one of those with the exception of Sparta Prague were CL qualifiers as well which is ten times as costly as tonight financially and from a reputation perspective.

Honestly mate, in the next few years this won’t look as bad. They have and will beat better teams than us.

 

Wrong my brain hurts

 

Yeah, they failed to get through the Europa qualification in the easier champions route.

This team may be well organised but I still stand by the view we should be beating a team who haven't played a competitive match in over 3 months

 

That was so poor tonight. Ange got the line up badly wrong. He then took far too long to change it. What really worried me was that when we were caught cold early on we froze. First half we couldn't get going and Bodo had our number. Lots of our key men were way off it- Rogic, Jota and McGregor in particular. Why Hatate was on the bench I do not know. Kyogo is such a massive miss too at this level. He would have made a real difference. All in all though a deflating night. A poor performance and a bit of a mark against Ange who still has the look sometimes of a one trick pony. Still love him though.

 

Never seen that coming but credit to Bodo, looked really good. Even at HT I thought we'll struggle here, defended really well, had kind of key players in positions, left-back or left or the back 3 was it or 4 hard to tell, the number 5 he could run with a ball and was able to get them out their own half a lot when passing it out. We don't have that, a centre-back who will run past 2 or 3 players when we need it.

Their manager knows what he's doing, just the way they played you could see them shutting us out, closing every space and when they attacked they flooded forward and passed it well. The big number 9 on the right loolked class as well, had a bit of Haaland about him.

Some size of team also, possibly the tallest we've ever played in our puff, apart from their number 10 who looked about 5'11 the rest of their squad must have been 6ft 2 minimum, they've recruited * giants with pace even their subs, the number 8 came on was built like Wanyama.

We never really played bad they snuffed us out and outsmarted us. Completely stopped us from playing, at the start they played with energy, closing us down and forced us to play it quick from the back to rattle us, once in front they sat in and were really well set up, never let our wide players or Maeda, Rogic or O'Riley get a sniff or any space and hounded anyone that moved.

Probably used all that time off to study us and knew us better than we know ourselves.

I thought Juranovic, McGregor and Maeda played well, Maeda done well a few times with limited service and was making nice runs but there was always a lot of bodies to play through to get him in. Juranovic and McGregor done a lot of work and carried the game to them almost on their own as the other midfielders, wingers and Taylor never really got going. Juranovic and McGregor were able to get more involved as they could take men on from deep and get forward on the ball a bit but it mostly all came to nothing.

I thought as well although they started off like us, open and pouring forward, once they scored they sat back and held possession a lot in defence. If we scored early we'd have remained attacking wide open and probably still let them score 2 or 3 so we're probably *.

 

Exactly, they were knocked out the champions league in the first qualifying round 5-2 by Legia Warsaw. Tonight was dreadful, but we need to just forget about it and move onto Sunday.

 

I don’t think it was the worst performance to be honest. We got into a lot of good areas, but our final ball wasn’t good enough. Bodo were very well organised and they were also comfortable on the ball. We have probably given ourselves too much to do next week. The third goal was a real sickener, especially after just getting ourselves back into the game. Hopefully we get a big response on Sunday, which for me, is a bigger game than tonight.