Celtic FC vs Udinese FC

I am actually dying for Thursday.

 

I hope your enthusiasm is still intact at the final whistle

 

Hope so to mate.

 

Still thousands and thousands of tickets unsold. Personally I think we'll be lucky to get a crowd of 30,000. Stupid KO time.

I can't go because I'm not out of uni until after 5 and I'd literally have to run to Parkhead to make it on time.

 

Where you hear that?

 

Antonio Di Natale has been left out of Udinese’s Europa League match against Celtic in Glasgow.
The veteran hitman is rested for Thursday’s trip to Scotland, as Francesco Guidolin promises to rotate the squad.

Maurizio Domizzi is another of those left behind, while ‘Romanian Leo Messi’ Gabriel Torje is cup-tied.

The only senior striker available is Diego Fabbrini, an Under-21 international.

Udinese squad: Handanovic, Padelli, Romo; Armero, Basta, Benatia, Ekstrand, Danilo, Neuton, Pereyra; Abdi, Asamoah, Badu, Battocchio, Doubai, Isla, Pinzi; Fabbrini, Marsura

http://www.football-italia.net/sep27z.html

 

Im going for a Celtic win in this ,i know there not at the races just now but this Celtic team can play a bit as we know so why not start on Thursday night ,a confident 2-0 win .

 

Celtic 2-1 Udinese. Wasn't feeling confident but can't help but feel so seen as Di Natale won't travel. Their only striker is a practically unheard of u21 international who scored 3 goals in 56 matches for a team called Empoli in Serie B*

Wikipedia*

 

Great news for us.

 

Di Natale not travelling. I can sleep at night now, he was genuinely giving me nightmares, thinking of him running at Maj and Loovens

 

+1.

 

That's great news about Di Natale. Now Celtic should get at least a 0-0 draw, and as long as Samaras doesn't play, a win.

 

Di Natale? Hah, Shitebag!

 

I'm not getting my hopes up til I turn up at Paradise on Thursday at 6.00

You know what these pesky Italians are like, could be a ruse from their manager! Lulling us into a false sense of security!

It might be that anyway actually because if we think just because they aint got Di Natale it will be easy then we're lost, they could still easily pump us without their main man.

We just need to go for it, forget about defence because if we play negatively we'll get exposed.
Play to our strengths which is midfield and up front, go for it and entertain the fans, if we lose we lose but at least we've gave it a shot and if we win even better because Europe gets to see a different side to us than Celtic "1 win in 159 European games" or whatever the * it is!

Just saw this as well:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/footba...a-urges-side-to-attack-celtic-86908-23449252/

so not sure at all if Di Natale is playing or not, hopefully not because he is their best player by miles but they are all good.

 

Mjallby demands an end to Celtic’s ‘strange’ defending

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MICHAEL GRANT chief football writer michael.grant@heraldandtimes.co.uk
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28 Sep 2011
Johan Mjallby will tell Daniel Majstorovic and Glenn Loovens to cut out “strange” and “silly” defending against Udinese tomorrow night.
The Celtic assistant manager did not pull any punches yesterday as he discussed the heavily-criticised central defenders who seem likely to retain their places for the club’s first home tie in the Europa League group stage. Mjallby also insisted that the Celtic defence as a whole had to improve their decision-making, communication and leadership.


Not registered so can't put whole story in.:bbpd:

 

That looks we are going with them at CB and Mulgrew at LB

 

They're not a one man team you know. They could still easily destroy us.

 

A draw will be a good result- remember how well they played against Aresnal!!

 

If we want to progress we need to win.

 

It'll be hard but I'm going for a 2-0 Celtic