Celtic v Rangers On 28th Dec

We seemed to be playing into the wind in the first half.

 

brown off, stokes on, forrest moved to right, sammy moved left, stokes and hooper up top please

 

Been ok apart from that , wee forest been pish , would move him over to right and sammy back to left mid , its not worked , ledley would be better in mid as well but wanyama been excellent.

would be tempted to take forrest off and put .stokes on with sammy moving back into mid .

 

Dominating them but no really any clear cut chances. Need to use the ball better in the final third and I don't think crosses will really do much cos of the wind. Been helping the throw-in's from the right to be honest though.

Hopefully Lenny will get them fired up for the second half.

 

I hope Lenny and the bhoys won´t settle for a draw, that would be unacceptable

 

totally agree, althoug i'd rather that than a caldwellesque attempt at skinning 4 players, losing the ball deep and leaving the GK 3 on 1

 

Defence looks shaky tonight.

 

Did they * all bring in their Xmas wrapping paper to make some kind of banner? Epic fail whatever it was meant to be.

 

I can count on one hand the amount of 'pretty' OF games I've seen in 40 years of watching!

 

We need Samaras and Forrest in the positions in which they have been class for us. If that means hooking captain technically-inept then lets * do it.

 

forrest has had a poor half, all we need from him in 2nd is for him to explode just once with a goal or an assist with a decent cross, his movement is poor, he needs to be looking for the ball dragging defenders away.

Wanyama and Kayal in control, Matthews and ledley are doing v well as are 2 CB's, just need to be patient, we've wind in 2nd half, pressure on their defence to deal with slippy ball in the bad weather....believe...

ps-that was a goal from wallace i think...

 

i think we were lucky there, wallace's chance looked over the line

 

Just tonight!? Our defence HONKS and WILL cost us games!

I really hope we buy a couple of proven CB's in January!

 

forrest on the right please and sammy left and if needed sub someone for stokes

 

Conditions are making good football difficult Rangers seem to have one tactic hump it up the park.looks like the wind should be in our favour next half

 

The only answer I can think of that puts the defenders in a good light, is that it streches the game out even more and when the ball comes back from a defensive header the other team should have some more space to win the 2nd ball.

Just a thought; that or they are poor players who don't have the ability to pick a pass under pressure, or that the rest of the teams movement is so poor there is nothing else on.

In our case the latter.

 

2nd half is ours! Ledley, Samaras and Hooper look on, Cmon Bhoys you got this!

 

Yes, you could really tell from that first goal kick by Forster. I hope it helps us in the second half.

I think Sammy should be unleashed on the flank, where he can run with the ball more.

 

forrest on right PLEASE

 

Whats with the high balls and long balls? Cut that crap out, on the ground to feet. Rangers lap up that rubbish style of play.

'Mon Bhoys.....get in amongst them....