Celtic vs. Dinamo Zagreb, Thurs 2nd Oct, KO 8pm (BT Sport 1).

His night off, finnys playing with him i think

 

That would have been a great game to watch as a neutral! Nothing better than end to end attacking football. Defence needs some serious attention, three players being dragged to one man leaving an unmarked player in the box really is a school boy error.

Great result and what a goal!

 

Anyone else love Gordon's reaction to this though?

 

To be fair to Broony he noticed it at the time and was shouting at the other two to back off, Broony was in the right position, Izzy and whoever else it was (Denayer?) Where pulled out of position and didn't notice the danger.

 

It was Johansen who left the man in the middle.

 

I expected him to go completely batshit insane

I know "schoolboy defending" is a commonly used phrase but that was the closest you could possibly get to it

 

And he did.

Something that Forster never used to do, something that the majority of our players won't do. I want our players to not accept that kind of showing from others around them, lifts the team as a whole.

 

We need a player like big Victor in the middle.

 

Great win but you could say Zagreb were very unlucky not to get at least a point. It might not be a popular opinion but I think we are winning games in spite of deila and not because of him.

 

We're also very 'unlucky' that we never won by more. It's the nature of football mate.

We are winning with Deila at the moment. We may have been able to do better or worse but that's where we are at the moment.

 

Loved his reaction! We need more of hos honesty and passion on the pitch.

 

Good result but still crimes against defending happening. Lucky to not have conceded one there with that awful gaff leaving 3 defenders on the ball.

Lucky to get all 3 points, Dinamo really deserved one.

 

DJ, I think you are right about Mr Deila and although the league table will credit us with three points from tonight's game that must be the luckiest three points ever. The next phase, if we get through, will take place in 2015 and maybe the prayed for miracle will have happened by then - - I dunno tho?????

 

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Brown played well tonight along with a few others, especially Gordon! Looking forward to the double header against Astra now.

 

A good result. The goal was sublime.

Tonev is greedy. Hit a few decent shots, but still.

Craig Gordon and Denayer were outstanding.

Their keeper was nervous as *, should really have capitalised on his mistakes and tested him a bit more

Brown played well, got about everywhere and led by example.

Kayal played well he came on. Deserves a start over Johansen in my opinion. Johansen played alright, but has been really poor for awhile.

Commons was terrible I thought, he gave the ball away almost every time he got it, playing passes to nobody. But... scored a peach. Some man.

Stokes played some nice first time passes and flicks.

Think we can score more goals if two strikers were to play together. Not enough to aim for in the box.

Too open at the back.

His reaction made sense, it was horrendous defending, really * defending - three players applying pressure on the ball. I think our centre backs were still coming back from the corner so it was left to the midfield to defend, but still, leaving one striker unmarked in the box in acres of space was ridiculous. I think Gordon was telling the to switch the * on and think about what they're doing.

 

We could, should have 10 points after 4 games. That would be incredible.

 

Hopefully have easier games against Astra. You'd think 10 points would be enough to see us through. Then we have Guidetti to step in as well.

 

It's hard to understand how professional players make decisions as daft as a few did tonight.

We had a few chances and could have had the game over.

However from earlier in the European games where we sat back too deep, tonight we chased another goal and left ourselves too thin at the back a few times.

Luckily we have Gordon in goal and they lacked composure when it mattered.

They looked a good team, better than I thought, but they look like they've got plenty of mistakes in the defence and keeper too.

Our goal was great and Gordon was too.

Everything in the middle needs work.

 

We need to score a lot of goals against Astra at home as i think it could come down to that for us to get through the groups.
I know we are top after 2 games and i think Zagreb will draw both games with Salzburg so we will need to destroy Astra home and away. I think we will do this though.
Celtic to finish on 12 points with Zagreb 2nd.

 

Sure hope so this 3 points will go along way in making sure we get through.