Ugly scenes at Ibrox. Pitch invasion by the home supporters as well.
Ugly scenes at Ibrox. Pitch invasion by the home supporters as well.
Brilliant to turn that around and get a point after a dreadful 1st half. But we've left ourselves a mountain to climb now in the league.
If MON can pull it off it'll be one of his greatest achievents, because we are rotten.
Once again, hun players are allowed to foul at will by hun refs.
2. Only the 09/10 season was worse after 27 games, 51pts then v 54 this season. We won 10 of the last 11 games in 09/10.
Even average type of Celtic season would have us on 68pts, and well clear at the top of the league.
I'm sure you didn't need stats to tell you this season is a shitshow, though.
1. We're on course for our worst league performance this century. Our current 2pts per game would mean just 76pts over the course of the full season, 1pt worse off than the 20/21 Covid monstrosity.
In a game marred by an awful referee making awful calls, let's not forget that snivelling tory rat Douglas Ross said that this ball was out of play.
We can add 3 new players to the Europa squad.
Usual rules apply, in that we still need to meet the "locally trained" requirements. Doesn't matter if they've played in Europe for another team.
And, I guess, we'd also need to have a board capable of signing a third player to add.
I highly recommend looking up Sandro Lauper's goal for YBB against Stuttgart. It's ridiculously good.
Wouldn't have been Celtic in Europe without a wee scare or two along the way. But a good win to see us safely through.
Ferencvaros of Stuttgart next.
Get through that and it's Porto or Braga in the L16.
It's almost as if having a competent manager in the dugout makes a difference.
The sack is the sack.
We've conceded 18 goals in 8 games under Nancy.
We conceded 19 goals in the 24 games prior to his arrival.
Make of that what you will.
1st half we were excellent. Dominated the game and should have been further ahead.
2nd half was the same abomination we've seen over most of the last 8 games. All over the place, no structure, a defensive bomb waiting to go off.
It's not going to get better. Clearout needed from top to bottom.
The league table since MON's last game against Dundee.
Add to this a scudding off Roma, and losing the League Cup Final.
Shambles.
"I was close to signing for Carlisle" is a phrase that should go down in Celtic history.
He's asking Grok to pick the team for him, isn't he?
"We started well, and after 1 minute...2 minutes we conceded the first goal"
Terrifying analysis from our manager.
Absolute shambles of a performance.
Nygren, pretty much any time he's in a challenge with a player of the opposing team.
Dodgy start, before settling into a good performance in the 1st half. 2nd half not so great. But overall a great result away from home after a tough European game.
Team could really do with a free midweek, though.
Today I learned that Dermot Desmond's son, Ross, is every bit the tadger that his father is.
An incredible finish, and completely unScottish.
I'm used to glorious failure, not unglorious victory.
And then there are the ones involving Scales and Hatate.
None of these incidents resulted in a red card. None of them were talked about endlessly as some form of injustice, despite being far more serious than the Butland one.
Funny that.
Way back in 2017 I made a post on twitter about how we often lose goals in batches in Europe; a result of our composure evaporating. Found it, and expanded upon it.
Here's how many times we've lost at least 2 goals in a 10 minute spell since 2010.
There are some great teams in there. But stil....
Well that could have gone better.
When we fall apart in Europe, we really fall apart in Europe.
Always good to beat them, regardless of how we do it.
Better team overall, but made hard work of the 2nd half. Got there in the end.
Night and day compared to how we've been playing for much of the season. More direct, and quicker.
Just need to keep it going for now, then reinforce in January.