The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Hectic]

It would be a great question in a pub quiz...

Which team had 3 shots on target but won 5-0

The fans should claim those, certainly made enough noise!

Griff and Sinclair missed great chances early on - could have easily been 7-0 with 5 shots on target!

[tonto1888]

30 million in the bank, well done, BR's pay packet for a few more years... 5 British teams in the CL now, bound to be a Battle of Britain game

Probably 6. You'd back Liverpool to go through

They'd be in exhalted company with Celtic and United.  Both European Champions before Liverpool were scarcely heard of in Europe   

Yet Liverpool have more European cups than united and Celtic combined. Exalted company indeed

[ned]

Great performance but a lot of things fell kindly for Celtic last night.

BUT nothing. You can't watch a lot of football. Celtic deserved that last night 100%. The first goal was an own goal forced by Rogic's brilliant skill, Griffiths was on hand anyway. The ref played advantage at the third as he should have. Griffiths' goal took a deflection, happens every week in loads of matches. So I would say one thing 'fell kindly'. FFS just enjoy a great win and a brilliant performance.

[Hectic]

Yeah I saw it being raked up that the ref should have stopped the game for the head knock to Rogic yet on watching it back there it was 4 seconds from the collision until the ball hit the net.

[T Fearon]

Great win and display and all credit to Brendan.We are arriving with confidence and momentum into the group stages and hopefully this will lead to six competitive outings.

[illdecide]

Great win and display and all credit to Brendan.We are arriving with confidence and momentum into the group stages and hopefully this will lead to six competitive outings.

Your old buddy Brendy

[stew]

Great win and display and all credit to Brendan.We are arriving with confidence and momentum into the group stages and hopefully this will lead to six competitive outings.

Your old buddy Brendy

Tony you are some pup, if Celtic get stuffed away you will be up.in arms telling us how Celtic have not progres sed from last year blah blah blah.

[T Fearon]

I can only assess on the latest performance and it was flawless.Celtic like Sevilla should breeze through these qualifiers every year,in my opinion.

[Applesisapples]

This was an outrageous display of ineptitude...sack Coco! In all seriousness brilliant performance and on the evidence of the Spanish Super Cup second leg Barca could be doing with Brendan right now.

[Esmarelda]

Great performance but a lot of things fell kindly for Celtic last night.

BUT nothing. You can't watch a lot of football. Celtic deserved that last night 100%. The first goal was an own goal forced by Rogic's brilliant skill, Griffiths was on hand anyway. The ref played advantage at the third as he should have. Griffiths' goal took a deflection, happens every week in loads of matches. So I would say one thing 'fell kindly'. FFS just enjoy a great win and a brilliant performance.

Who's not enjoying it. He said a lot of things fell for Celtic and anyone (other than you perhaps?) can see that it did. It happens some times. Celtic deserved to win but not by five. I really enjoyed the win despite these obvious observations. Oh, FFS.

[tonto1888]

Great performance but a lot of things fell kindly for Celtic last night.

BUT nothing. You can't watch a lot of football. Celtic deserved that last night 100%. The first goal was an own goal forced by Rogic's brilliant skill, Griffiths was on hand anyway. The ref played advantage at the third as he should have. Griffiths' goal took a deflection, happens every week in loads of matches. So I would say one thing 'fell kindly'. FFS just enjoy a great win and a brilliant performance.

Who's not enjoying it. He said a lot of things fell for Celtic and anyone (other than you perhaps?) can see that it did. It happens some times. Celtic deserved to win but not by five. I really enjoyed the win despite these obvious observations. Oh, FFS.

perhaps two of the goals were lucky but we had two bad misses so Id say the scoreline was a fair reflection of the game

[From the Bunker]

Who gives a crap! Celtic won 5-0 and are a week ahead on signing players for the Champions League.

[Hectic]

The scoreline was a good reflection of the game. It took a while to get settled in but Celtic got the first goal and continued in the ascendancy from then until the final whistle.

Comfortable and controlled on the ball making Astana work hard all the while crancking it up to the point they were able to deliver the knock out blows through well crafted goals. At 5 you could def see the possibility of scoring a 6th before final whistle.

5 0 about right for that sort of performance.

[ned]

Great performance but a lot of things fell kindly for Celtic last night.

BUT nothing. You can't watch a lot of football. Celtic deserved that last night 100%. The first goal was an own goal forced by Rogic's brilliant skill, Griffiths was on hand anyway. The ref played advantage at the third as he should have. Griffiths' goal took a deflection, happens every week in loads of matches. So I would say one thing 'fell kindly'. FFS just enjoy a great win and a brilliant performance.

Who's not enjoying it. He said a lot of things fell for Celtic and anyone (other than you perhaps?) can see that it did. It happens some times. Celtic deserved to win but not by five. I really enjoyed the win despite these obvious observations. Oh, FFS.

I'm still savouring that performance. Point out "a lot of things'" that fell for Celtic. I saw one instance, maybe two, everything else was as a result of good tactics/play and a superb performance.

[Main Street]

Great performance but a lot of things fell kindly for Celtic last night.

BUT nothing. You can't watch a lot of football. Celtic deserved that last night 100%. The first goal was an own goal forced by Rogic's brilliant skill, Griffiths was on hand anyway. The ref played advantage at the third as he should have. Griffiths' goal took a deflection, happens every week in loads of matches. So I would say one thing 'fell kindly'. FFS just enjoy a great win and a brilliant performance.

Who's not enjoying it. He said a lot of things fell for Celtic and anyone (other than you perhaps?) can see that it did. It happens some times. Celtic deserved to win but not by five. I really enjoyed the win despite these obvious observations. Oh, FFS.

I'm still savouring that performance. Point out "a lot of things'" that fell for Celtic. I saw one instance, maybe two, everything else was as a result of good tactics/play and a superb performance.

Of course Celtic deserved it, nevertheless Bennyd's point has some merit when you consider 5 goals from 3 shots on target and to be 2 goals up at half time was not a fair reflection of the proceedings. Celtic could then afford to take stock in defence in the 2nd half, not have to force the issue, hit on the counter, with Griffiths and Sinclair looking very sharp and more space for them to run into.
The 2 own goals fell Celtic's way, also the refs decision to wait 4 seconds after the clash of heads also fell Celtic's way. Doesn't meant that the defender had any other option but to score an og from the Rogic cross into the danger area or that the ref was not right to play on those few seconds after the head clash.
Not much went for Astana on the night, their game plan fell apart before half time without them doing much wrong.