League Cup Ross County 1 - 4 Celtic

11 mile up the road ,, the team could walk to their ground

 

I won't get a ticket for fir park but I'd be getting one at paradise. I want to be there as much as possible, tv football sucks balls

 

Not much to complain about there. A comfortable win against a premiership side, away from home, with essentially our second team. That'll do me.

 

Shockingly good I thought, mixing the team up like that and starting a lot of players who haven't played much, sometimes they can be a bit desperate to impress or ropey looking since they are under pressure a bit to perform and haven't been playing a lot but it looked like they'd been playing together all season and it was just another stroll.

 

One underrated part of tonight was seeing Hearts getting * out too. Right up that utter * of a man Robbie Neilson.

 

No need for Hart, Juranovic, CCV, Taylor, Hatate, O'Riley, Jota or Kyogo... and we strolled it. We are so * strong just now. Long may it continue!

 

Great to see our rotation squad get to play some ball and blow away a Premiership team. Last season we needed an overtime goal in Dingwall, this time we looked calm and collected from start to finish.

Maeda MOTM for me. He was difficult for them to handle all game. Ralston with two assist, the last one a real piece of work, using his physique to brush the defender away before the cut back. CalMac was great as always.

Bernabei and Jenz looked shaky on the left hand side. Poor communication and passing. Still think they need time to settle in the squad.

Siegrist looked safe the few times he was put to the sword, not much for him to do on the County goal imo.

 

Any highlights of this match? Missed it due to work

 

Right up their hun * support as well..

 

You sir are a * star!

 

https://www.talkceltic.net/forums/threads/celtic-v-ross-county-goals-thread.154823/

 

the signs are good that european hangovers are a thing of the past

 

4 goals and a good win at a hard away venue, no complaints.

 

Just wondering who got the captain's armband when McGregor came off?

 

Forrest

 

That was a competitive match and did good for both clubs. Even though County lost they were able to compete for most of the game and they will do better against other clubs this year. Celtic needed a game like this to prepare them for the intensity of the next two matches.

Fantastic through ball by Welsh to Giakoumakis in the first half.
Good to see Calmac attempting shots at goal. Once he gets his sights adjusted he will be banging them in.

Great goal by Giakoumakis. Shimmied to the left, left 3 defenders unbalanced on his right, and placed the ball hard and low into the net with his left foot. Could have got a goal earlier with the ball coming off the crossbar, if he had slid in and pushed the ball in with the underside of his boot. Gutsy performance today because he got a battering. He needs to drag his marker to the wings at times to open up space in the middle for others to attack through there. Too static at the end, needs to get into space. It looked at times as if he was marking his own marker.

Mooy had a lot of completed passes today - as usual. Would like to know how many. Allows Calmac to be more creative further up the pitch.

Glad to see Bernabei have a full game, pity about the head clash. Gets into good positions to have a diagonal direct shot at goal and should have a go once his confidence improves. Would like to see him hitting more low crosses into the box. He looks to be coping better with the pace of Celtic's game.

Seigrist was sound in goal.

Was impressed with Haksabanovic. He is going to be a nightmare for defenders.

Celtic's pace and pressing was relentless, and good to see the team working as a unit defending calmly. We can hope to see more of that aspect of their game in the next two matches.

Ralston is so impressive with the attacking aspect of his game as a full back. Laid the ball on a plate for Forrest to score and he enjoyed that and it will give him a boost. Forrest was good to find the space to get his pass.

Pretty impressive. We are looking at a squad now, rather than simply a team.

 

What a performance that was by almost an entire 11 who haven't been playing regularly at all.

Always risk of games like this being a banana skin when changing it up so much...but right now, the mood and ethos set by Ange is clearly ingrained into every player.

Other than shocking officiating again with some of the tackles and a massively blatant offside goal out second string barely looked like they got out of second gear.

Then to top it all off the cameo appearance by Haskobanovic was electric and so excited to see what he can do here.