League Cup Celtic V The Orange fruit Sunday December 15th kick off 3:30PM premier sports

oranje klootzakken Get it on the title…………

 

That's my feelings too, honestly don't mind tho as I feel both Engels and Bernardo are gonna play big parts on Sunday from start or from the bench.

 

Bernardo off the bench in the last Cup Final against them pretty much won us the game, along with Idah’s nice finish.

 

Looks like we'll be against balogoun and propper with that Soutter injury

 

We'll need to battle a bit, they're on a bit of a high..

If we show our quality they won't get near us.. but we need to battle to get that platform.

 

Complacency is our biggest enemy on Sunday.

They’ve shown a bit of form in the last few weeks and they’ll be up for it - they’ve nothing to lose. The likes of Raskin, Diomande etc will be looking to make it a battle.

The key for us is to not to get dragged into a scrappy game and let the speed of it affect us, we need to be composed on the ball and make the right decisions/passes. We can’t afford to get slack and lose the ball in dangerous areas because we don’t defend the transition well at all.

Our quality should shine through and Rodgers always has a good game plan for these fixtures.

 

Press the life out of them..

Their keeper is diabolical under pressure
Their left back Jefte is a bombscare
Tavernier has no pace
Propper is slow and weak as *

Get them on the back foot instantly with Kuhn terrorising a guy who can't defend
Kyogo making runs Propper doesn't even see
Maeda who's tortured their captain for years

They put everything in to that tonight against a Spurs side going through the motions. Win that midfield battle as well which I'm sure we will..

Cannot wait..

 

As said in the hun thread, this will be a very close game imo. Wouldn't surprise me if it went to ET.

For how * they've been this season, they've definitely hit some form. Just hope we return to our pre-international break levels and get the job done.

 

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Johnston CCV Trusty Taylor ​

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McGregor ​

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Bernardo Hatate ​

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Kuhn Kyogo Maeda ​

 

I like my huns over confident and full of puff going into a game against us, doesn't usually end well

 

We will need to play well to win but are more than capable. I still think we have what’s necessary to cause them problems, Spurs lack of pace and quality before Solanke came on was horrific. Son looks to have fallen off a cliff, both pace and ability wise.

There was space and 1v1s with full backs on all night but they just never looked like doing anything.

 

If we play like we can we win but it's a cup final and as we all know anything can happen in a cup final. We are a little bit off it at the minute, but that can happen during a season- we are still winning games which is the sign of a good team. I don't expect Sunday to be easy but we should come through.

 

We know they will punt high balls looking to pick up the knock downs so need to be alert. I also think Cerny could cause problems for us especially against Taylor who hates players running directly at him and I'd rather we played Valle. We will need to be right up for this as they've got their orange tails up

 

I think its clear something has clicked for them a bit in recent weeks. It won't be a walkover.

 

Could really be doing with Engels snapping out of it and showing the form he did early on for us. Just get a bit of confidence going and take control of the game.

Think I'd go him and Bernardo in the middle to start with. Rest of the team picks itself really.

Kasper
AJ
CCV
Trusty
Taylor
Calmac
Engels
Bernardo
Kühn
Kyogo
Maeda

Get off to a good start, bury an early chance and we will demolish the *.

 

No two ways about it, they’ve definitely improved in the last month.

If we turn up, we’ll win. We need to be better than we have been recently, though. Our overall performances have fallen off a cliff of late.

 

It wouldn't shock me if they're the better team for the first 15/20 minutes, usually games at Hampden/Ibrox they tend to dominate the early proceedings, done it at Parkhead earlier in the season too.

Weather the early storm and we should be more than fine, we do need players like Maeda, Hatate and Kuhn to come back to form, not having McCowan available at all is probably our only negative going into this.

 

Rangers were pretty sharp tonight. Hope Celtic players were watching that, nice reminder about complacency

 

Thinking back to Scottish Cup Final We never really played great that day and still won. Maybe we are due a really good performance against them and a real good win a Hampden into the bargain. They must think they have a good chance. As I always say let them get within touching distance, then bury them .