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

Fantastic result from yet another patchy performance. 20/25 good minutes, then revert to giving the ball away too easily and letting them play like the home team.

The part where Broony, Johansen and Izzy went after after one DZ guy, while leaving their striker with the freedom of CP to play in was worrying. Broony was telling Johansen where to go but it was too late. Surely Johansen should see that himself, no?!? It really does look like Ronny tells him just to run about daft everywhere the ball goes. Boy looked a real replacement for Ledley last year but just looks clueless now.

Still, 4 points is all that matters. Now for Hamilton Accies. Seems every game is huge for Ronny.

 

Exactly. Some seem to think it's practically a free 6 points! They'll more than likely give us a game right now, the way we're playing. Another international break coming too to disrupt the flow again.

 

lets hope this display will get some fans off the backs of Stokes and Commons they are two of the best players at the club, and we are a poor team without them in the first 11.

 

They were in celtic shirts and buying scarfs outside as they arrived to the grounf

 

I made out a few with Celtic scarfs on. I bought a half and half scarf, don't usually do that

 

Think those highlights sum the game up. Lucky to get the points we weren't playing well and never created much apart from the goal however we are missing players

Guidetti
Scepovic
Mulgrew
Matthews
Lustig
Forrest
Mcgregor

Don't know if I have missed anyone

Feel tonev berget and wakaso still have a lot to do if they want to win a contract

 

A fully fit Lustig and Forrest would make such a difference to our team. We're missing them terribly.

 

Gutted a missed this last night. Probably unlikely but is there anywhere a could watch the full game?


Just saw the post above with the highlights those will do

 

we will be so much better when we have those players back ...no more ambrose or johansen in the team once matthews , lustig and mulgrew are back . No more tonev once forrest is back, Mcgregor is a huge player for us and Guidetti will score goals in the europa if we get through to the next stage . We will look much much stronger.

 

internet down again yesterday so just watched those hi-lights above ... fek me thank * for Craig Gordon .

 

It's good to see a fan of another club come on here and congratulate us on a win instead of the usual * we usually need to put up with

 

They scored a pretty pathetic goal in Zagreb no idea what there was like last night they sit on 0 points we play them at home next they are good as out and another 3 points on the board for us! I'm writing them off simple

 

There were quite a few Croatia CSC fans over all very proud to wear their Celtic colours, A fair few were also in the Cairde shop buying up Bobby Sands and Che gear. Some had come over without tickets but most of the ones I met in Bar67 all managed to get one ok.

Had to laugh though the guy who runs the place had heard about groups of BBB going on theft raids so he was prepared with a baseball bat behind the counter.:icon_mrgreen:

 

Things are slowly coming together. We should probably have been 3 up at half time, they predictably came at us second half but apart from a few slips where Gordon rescued us we kept them at arm's length. Some of our pressing and passing were really good, we jut need to work on doing it consistently for 90 mins. Good times ahead!

 

Loved Wakaso's little chop inside the defender. Should have found the target.

 

I would have rated the team as

Gordon 8 4/5 good saves, especially the one we were wide open
Ambrose 7 defended quite well
Denayer 7 same as above
Van Dijk 7 same as above
Izaguirre 7 got forward quite well and defender ok
Brown 8 won the ball plenty of times and held possession well under pressure
Johansen 6 not that effective during the game, shut down and worked hard though
Wakaso 6 played quite well but didnt do much going forward
Commons 6(5 or 4 if he hadnt scored) didnt really do anything other than score
Tonev 6 defended really well and got forward ok at times
Stokes 6 few nice moments of good link up play but we never really got beyond him at all for him to do much

 

I'd give Virgil an 8. He was excellent last night.

 

Thats the usual for him though, anyone we play he absolutley dominates their strikers :icon_mrgreen:

I cant think of a single game where Van Dijk has been ripped apart by another player, generally if they run at him he takes the ball off them, if he competes in the air he wins the ball and he probably runs past strikers more than they run past him.

 

I was in 67' during the day, and the squad that came in were sound as * tbh, not a peep from them until the rebs came on

 

Commons was terrible last night, but the goal made up for all the other unforced errors.

He was (probably don't notice it as much 'cause he just strolls through the games) but I thought Denayer played better, particularly first-half.