[Official TC Thread] FC Astana v. Celtic, CL 3rd Qual Rnd 1st Leg, Wed 27th July, 15.00pm ko, Premier Spor

No probs a go onto that we site every year its decent for seeing who we could get

 

When's the draw , Friday next week?

 

apoel and plzen are seeded so are we so a dont think we can face either of them teams :icon_mrgreen:

 

Yup I know thats why I said so in brackets

 

All we know now is we won't play Olympiacos, Viktoria Plzeň, Salzburg, or APOEL (because of seeding). We could play any of the other 15 teams. [EDIT: err, well, 14 since obviously we can't play Astana next round.]

After the 2nd leg is complete but before the draw, there will only be 9 other teams left in Champions Route, and because of seeding, we will know which 5 teams we will possibly get in the draw.

Yes 5 Aug.

 

Didnt notice that mate my mistake :icon_mrgreen: so if qarabag go on to beat plzen they would take plzen,s place but they would be unseeded and the next unseeded team that gets through will take plzens position as a seeded team??? like bate have 34000 co effiecent points but they get through there match and because plzen are out on there arses, the next team with the most points would be seeded or a my talking 1 load of waffle

 

How class would it be to get Dundalk , Legia Warsaw would be a nightmare:smiley-laughing002:

 

A can see it happening a dont think we should be scared of them right enough.

 

Good result in the circumstances. Sloppy at times in defence, the goal we conceded being the prime example. Aside from that it was pretty positive from us.

First off. Two games played on * poor Astro-turf surfaces. All for playing games on surfaces like Hamilton and Rugby Park, but the one in Gibraltar was a farce and today's was only slightly better.

Anyway onto the game. Second half I thought we were very good. Particular after our equaliser. Similar to the end of the Lincoln game at home, we kept the ball pretty well. Biton coming on gave us a bit more composure on the ball in the midfield,when earlier it was a harem scarem. Roberts gave them the round around and ended up with 3 players on him in the 2nd half. Great persistence for the goal and also not hiding despite the * at left back having two * poor hacks at him.

Biggest positive is two of our own youngsters held their own at such a level. Tierney again after a difficult opening 30 minutes, found a solution to deal with the rapid *. O'Connell likewise after losing his man for the goal, was superb in the 2nd half. Stepping out with the ball, competed well and held his own in the makeshift defence.

 

Yes you are bang on mate


Current top seeds (in order) are
Olympiakos
Victoria Plzen
Salzburg
Celtic
APOEL

Then the next 5 unseeded (also in.order)are:
BATE
Legia
Dinamo Zagreb
Ludogrets
Kobenhavn

After this round the top 5 left in it are top seeds.

So lets hope there are as many shocks as possible (except us :icon_mrgreen so we can get as easy as team as possible in the playoff

 

Also Brendan going to scud that streak o * at the end of the game. Ref was a * also, officiated as his brown envelope dictated. Booking Brown at the end summed him up.

 

Did anyone else notice that Dembele didn't celebrate the equaliser?

https://streamable.com/o91x

I won't read into it to much but it seems a bit strange

 

I think we'd beat them, it's the fans I'm worried about.

 

He is probably still * off for playing * again and getting subbed. Not neccessarily a bad thing though.

 

Yes, and unbeaten at home too.

 

It looks like he half heartily clapped , but he might have just been rubbing his hands.

Hes probably just really disapionted in his performance but yea its a little strange.

 

Excellent none of the above teams scare me 1 but right enough if we had to play fenerbache, monaco etc it would worry me but the likes of zagreb and bate are beatable, just hope we get the job done next week against astana

 

There fans are wild, * them but they would have to play at parkhead this time which they wouldn,t like :icon_mrgreen:

 

Yes true, just prefer to avoid Legia...