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

Absolutely mental. It's a European trophy that is genuinely winnable for us.

 

Totally mental that some folk don't want to win this. First European competition in about 20 odd year that we genuinely have a chance of winning and folk want to rest all our first team players. Go and make a bit of history.

 

Hart
Juranovic CCV Starfelt Taylor
McGregor
O'Riley Hatate
Abada Maeda Jota

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Full strength team as if it was a Huns game for me!

 

League priority for me. Be happy just to come away from this with no injuries

 

Of course it will be full strength. Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

Folk say the same when we are in the EL that we should rest players and concentrate on the league. Guess what we don’t unless it’s a dead rubber and we still can’t get anywhere in that competition. We could finish this off on Thursday and give some players a rest next week.

 

Think we'll start O'Riley and big Jackie. With MJ injured we might want to keep Maeda on the bench to bring on for Jota later on in the game. Think O'Riley had a better game against the sheep last week than Rogic had on Sunday.

 

I want a quadruple.. so full strength.



The monetary benefits of getting into the later rounds is not to sniffed at either..

 

How can people say rest players etc. We have a genuine shot at a European trophy here. * intae them!

 

For me whether we have a genuine chance to win this competition or not the fact is we are playing the Norwegian champions in a European knock out round tie over two legs. It is a tie we are capable of winning which would see us through to the last 16 and it is quite a while since we have have made the last 16 in any format in Europe. So I imagine we will see our stongest side possible line out and hopefully the atmosphere in the stadium and the hunger on the field can produce a big performance and big night for us.
My biggest concern right now is there seems to be a bit of over confidence that we are going to win this tie. That we could even run up a score and put the tie to bed even before the second leg over in Norway. That makes me nervous. I know they may have lost a player or 2 in the last transfer window but this is still a side who's group stage results were impressive and I have to imagine playing on a plastic pitch in the artic they have a really good home record. We are going to have to be very good I think to win on Thursday night and the tie overall.

 

Hart
Jura-CCV-Starfelt-Taylor
Mcgregor
O'reilly-Hatate
Abada-GG-Jota

 

Hart
Juranovic CCV Starfelt Taylor
CalMac
O'Riley Rogic
Abada Maeda Jota​

 

Still a * of a lot of tickets left for this crowd will be about 40 thousand I think

 

Assuming the map is accurate there’s probably 53 or 54k sold at the moment. There’s not a huge number of seats available in any section.

 

GK - Hart

RB - Juranovic
CB - CCV
CB - Starfelt
LB - Taylor

CDM - McGregor
CM - O’Riley
CM - Hatate

RW - Abada
ST - Maeda
LW - Jota

 

Good news as we will need the crowd as I expect Bodo Glimt to be a tough nut to crack on Thursday night.

 

Hart
Juranovic Starfelt Carter-Vickers Taylor
CalMac
Hitate Rogic - you can take that to the bank.
Abada Maeda Jota.

 

Not saying dont go to win it, but dont risk any big players, even if we did win this, its £9m prize money max from here on in, nothing compared to CL.

We've got enough players to use and not risk anyone who aint 100% fit or carrying any niggles. And give players who need game time, some time on park.

We're already seeing how much luck we dont have with players picking up injuries.

 

Coming up from England for this one on Thursday. Forge still best place to park? Will be getting into Glasgow around 5.30 I'd imagine. Cheers

 

hart
juranovic ccv starfelt taylor
o'riley mgregor hatate
abada maeda jota

them 3 upfront should drag bodo glint all over the place as they can all play in either ones position

think wed still do well with gg upfront though i think hes gonna do well for us