Celtic V The Huns Saturday 11th may kick off 12:30 Sky Sports football

Hoops Bar is worth the cab ride, atmosphere will be bouncing

Enjoy anyway

 

Aye gone are the days of turning up knowing we’re going to rip the pish out of them without any pressure of things going wrong if we don’t play well.

Can think of quite a few occasions recently where we’ve went to ibrox with the odds heavily in their favour and we’ve pulled a huge performance or result out the bag so I’m taking nothing for granted.

We’ve been extremely wasteful against them particularly in the home games going back to Ange’s games with them.

 

All this overconfidence, even * talking from the manager is scaring the * * outta me.

These games are NEVER, EVER straightforward.

Add into the fact that the league is basically over of we win it, we're gonna be right up against it on all fronts.
Cheating * officials who will bend every rule in the book to give them every advantage possible, a Hun team under no pressure from their disgusting mutant fans, a league desperate to see them stop us to "balance out" the financials and possibly save them from sanctions...

We may be at home, we may have 60,000 fans behind us, but EVERYTHING is against us.

Rodgers needs to keep the players heads screwed on, and we need to tread very * lightly in terms of challenges in the box etc.

I'm personally * bricks here. I hate this * fixture, tribute act or not, I wish they'd * disappear, and take their zombified KKKlub with them.

 

If it was a game of football, officiated by fair and impartial refs. We'd have every reason to be over confident. As we'd batter them 100% of the time.

 

From a 11 v 11 perspective we should win by 2 goals. Compared to their team at the shitpit they are missing their biggest threat being Sima who did make an impact when he came on against Taylor. Them not having Sima or Matondo takes away a lot of their pace out wide.

Defensively we should also be able to take advantage.

My biggest worries are firstly we start tentatively and they * an early goal. They will either start 100 mph trying to get an early lead or they will also be tentative. We need to be at it first minute and not ease ourselves into the game. Could be caught cold.

Secondly it’s the officials, we have the upper hand in having the fans to put pressure on the referee on the day but we can’t put pressure on whoever is in charge of VAR. We need to be wary of gifting VAR opportunities or excuses for red cards or penalties. No doubt they will take them if offered.

Need to go out to win the game and match their intensity. If we do that I’ve no doubt our overall quality means we win the game.

 

Cannot disagree with anyone going into this game that we go into it in a good place. A win and its done all but officially. A draw realistically would be fine for us even. They absolutely have to win. My concern is that while we certainly have been playing much better of late we still have shown ourselves to be very vulnerable such as the Aberdeen cup semi-final and even the previous derby at the debt star when we let the lead slip twice that day. We need to be absolutely concentrated defensively especially on set pieces. Then of course you have the "honest mistake" brigade and VAR and that really more then anything else worries me as the only reason its so tight is because of the help they have gotten and this past weekend was just yet another example of that.

 

Would take a draw now. If ever there was a league to just get over the line it is this one.

 

I see Brendan's comments have triggered the bald one across the city......

Gimp

 

This. The huns have a recent history of going for it at the start. Best thing we did was from kick off punt the ball out for a throw in near their own goal line. Pinned them in and won no problem. Need more of the same from the get go.

 

Id start Forrest and maeda and drop Khun as our wingers.

 

Referee and VAR spooks will take any opportunity to send a Celtic player off in the first 20 mins or so, which will hand the Huns the advantage. If it stays 11 v 11, everyone knows we have the better players and are very likely to effectively clinch the Title. Winning the Title is bad enough for them but the £60 million in Champions League money we will pick up absolutely terrifies them. We would love so far ahead of them finically it would take them YEARS to get anywhere near us again.

 

Massive key is to score early, get our crowd to go totally mental and win by 3 or 4!

 

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Feeling this could be a draw 1-1 hope not but these scum officials will be praying for a late tackle to send on of us off

 

The Huns realistically need to win which makes me think it'll leave them open..they don't play through teams they just look to go long and play off causing chaos... we'll have the pace in Maeda and movement of kyogo and id say in McGregor Reo and O'Reilly we definitely have the technical advantage and more legs in midfield. Anything can happen as we all know but to beat us I think they'll need 3 or 4 bcoz well definitely score 2 or 3. I just can't see them beating us.

 

I get that. What a year it has been. Santa boo'd to * at Christmas as well.

 

I get where people are coming from, anything can happen in these games, and we've went to Ibrox twice being viewed as heavy underdogs and won comfortably over the last couple of years, so the worry is why can't they do the same?

Difference is mentality, we have guys like McGregor, Forrest, Hart, O'Riley and Kyogo, these guys have the mentality of winners and are used to having it our way.

They have guys like Tavernier, Barisic, Goldson, Lundstrum, Jack, Balogun and Cantwell, all who are serial losers.

If we lose this weekend, it'll be on us making a mess of it or the officials having their way.

 

Would love it if we destroy the * and set some sort of modern record spanking them 6-0 or something.

But would be to settle for a controlling 3-0 similar to how we did sone while back when Hatate got his double and Abada snuck round the back.

 

Reminds me of the season we had a chance to win the league at Ibrox and they played out their skins. They'll throw everything at us that first 20/25 mins. Need to keep heads cool. Occasion can get to the most experienced players, a lot at stake.