Was shocked to read this even after the arrival of Keane!
BBC Sport - Football - Marc-Antoine Fortune is still Celtic's first choice
Discuss Fortune is Mowbray's first choice striker in the Celtic Chat area at TalkCeltic.net.
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He would be my first choice as well with keane and Rasmussen up top with him. Fortune is effective, composed,strong and good in the air and his link play is superb and with 2 natural goalscorers along side him we will win the title in spite of the poor defence
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I wouldn't call Keane a natural goal scorer to be honest and it's too early to say if Rasmussen will be! As for the title, just remember that it's not in our hands!
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I'd play Fortune on the right wing with Rasmussen and Keane in the middle. Drop Aiden, let him have a time out and a wee rest.
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fortune does give you a bit more pace
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i'd play him outwide or in the hole ,mcgeadys times up so better tryin to get new team working well , would have keane n rassa up front kamara on left
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he should play .......
Keane Rasmussen
<-- Fortune -->
Fortune can play outside the box like he does and he is also ONE of the the very FEW players who can strike a ball at Celtic. -
You forgot about McGeady!!!
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mate keane and ras didnt have much link up play in the last game
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Yep Ras put a nice wee pass through for Keane for the pen and they tried at least 3 or 4 more through balls that were intercepted.
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against motherwell and st johnstone fortunes link up play was great
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The good thing is we have a bit of variety at least untill the end of the season and should never see a Samaras - Fortune partnership again..
We have Samaras and Fortune running in zig zags and Keane and Rasmussen occupying the central area from 30 yards and in.. We have decent shooting from all 4 guys and Kamara looks like he can offer a bit of everything..
Unfortunately our non existent defending probably restricts TM's preferred formation of 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2 for the time being.. If we were going 3 up front then it would have to be Keane , Rasmussen and any 1 from the other 3 IMO..
If it's a front 2 then it has to be Keane and 1 other (probably Fortune)..
I like the idea of Rasmussen and Keane forming a partnership but I can understand Rasmussen being benched (which I think will happen tomorrow) as he's the obvious substitute for Keane , to come on and play through the middle.. -
how did you come to that theory?
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Its impossible to judge rasmussen after 2 games, his link up play wasnt great in all honesty, but hes a 6 yard box player and thats all he ever claims to be, i like him and he will score 25 goals next season.
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Guys think about it fortunes game is all about drifting out wide from the centre and finding space that way, he wouldn't get anywhere near the same joy he gets coming from the centre.
Just because he drifts out there alot dosen't mean he could skin a full back and deliver a great ball so having him on the wing is a non starter imo, in the hole aint a bad option though.
I would think about
.........brown............n'guemo.........crosas.........
...............................fortune.........................
.....................rasmussen.............keane.........
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This doesn't surprise me one bit. I've said as much in a couple of other threads. mmmikey said it too.
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Is there no place in his team for wingers then ,because all i see is Centre Forwards all over the shop ,playing as wingers.
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so what does mowbary do with Kamara? who i thought was the pick of the four strikers on sun
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i agree with those who say play ras, keane and fortune, fortune plays outwide most of the time anyway so he and keane could play as wide strikers and ras in the middle, could be a deadly leathal frontline given the chance -
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Yeah I had considered that as a possibility too. It means playing with a 3 man central midfield though which means, in all likelihood, dropping McGeady. For that reason alone it won't happen.
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