Champions League Kairat Almaty v Celtic Tuesday August 26th kick off 5:45 Amazon Prime Video

If we don't win it will be 4 trips to Kazakhstan without a win and 13 away games in Europe in a row without a win.

Surely due to win away in Europe and overdue to win in Kazakhstan as well,

3-0

 

The youngster on his way to Chelsea getting a daft booking and suspension almost last kick of the ball 1st leg is a major positive for us.

1st leg think it’s obvious he is the danger man for them, in terms of putting his foot on the ball and making something happen for them

 

My hope for this one is they severely underestimate us because of the first leg.

Forrest surely can’t be as bad as he was in the first leg. They also got off lightly coming up against Idah, so having someone else there like Yamada could be a bit of a shock for them.

Honestly I’d consider a curve ball like having Bernardo in there from the start to try and knock them off their game. I feel he’s good against that lane-blocking thing they do.

The thing is, when teams use tactics like that it’s really effective but if you break through it, it can be catastrophic for them.

Go for Bernardo, McGregor, Hatate - break their block and keep Nygren and Yang for impact in the final part of the game.

 

Weirdly, that’s my fear for the squad with them

 

Early goal for us and we see it out, 2-0. Mon.

 

Saw that they have 4 injured players that usually start for them. Great news if true.

 

Those * did a lot of play acting and time wasting in the game last week and I expect similar tomorrow. I hope the ref is up to the task and isn’t fooled by their antics.

 

Concede we have been playing high quality sides in the Champions League the last 3 seasons but good teams win away in Europe regularly, almost 4 years is unacceptable. Shakhtar & Zagreb should've been wins.

Astana just lost both legs 2-0 v Lausanne and they're above Kairat in the table.

 

Cleverly done by Engels.

 

The markets have celtic at 1/2 to win in normal time. Not convinced that is correct but I think a lot of broader negatively is shaping opinions about this game within the celtic support when theres far more confidence from onlookers that celtic should navigate this one ok.

 

I was not confident for the first leg. While most thought we would pump them, i thought we would draw at best in that game. Now for some reason i am highly confident.

We will win and we will win comfy.

 

Think we'll pummel them 4-0 and we'll all have a big laugh about this afterwards

Schmeichel

Ralston CCV Scale Tierney

Engels McGregor Hatate

Nygren Shin Maeda

 

I think we did underestimate them tbh, dont think what their manager said was that bad.

I dont think we will underestimate them again, and I dont see us starting with Idah and Forrest up top again.

Oddly not as nervous for this as I thought I would be, that could completely change tomorrow of course, but I think we'll be fine.

 

If their goalie is the nervous guy with the shower cap on we will definitely beat them, even if it goes to penalties, which it might.

 

My team aswell

 

3000m above sea level will probably affect the players more than the travel, time difference or temperature tbh. That will be a bit of a leveller for them imo.

Just have to go and show our quality from the off, give them no confidence and ideally an early goal to settle any nerves.

 

This is not as based on quality of opposition but moreso on the climate and conditions. This is why we need to put the game to bed early. If it's 75 mins and 0-0 it's going to be starting to favor them