The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Hapoel Tel-Aviv    v    Celtic

Venue: Bloomfield Stadium Date: Thursday 17 Sept Kick-off: 1800 BST
Coverage: BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Scotland MW, BBC Radio 5 live and live on ESPN


Celtic will be without injured £3.8m summer signing Marc-Antoine Fortune for Thursday's Europa League Group C encounter with Hapoel Tel-Aviv.

Aiden McGeady returns to the first team for the match in Israel having missed Saturday's league match at home to Dundee United through suspension.

Scott McDonald is likely to feature in a lone strike role.

Celtic manager Tony Mowbray is able to choose from an otherwise fully-fit squad at the Bloomfield Stadium.

"Everybody's here, everybody's raring to go hopefully," said Mowbray.

"There's no decisions to be made on fitness, everything's fine.

"From just walking around this morning (Wednesday) and feeling the heat and the humidity, it's going to make it a difficult situation for the players.

"A few of the staff went to the game last night (Maccabi Haifa v Bayern Munich) and sitting watching the game, they felt the intense heat. So that might be an issue for us as well."



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Celtic (from): Boruc, Hinkel, Caldwell, Loovens, Daniel Fox, McGinn, McGeady, Mizuno, Crosas, Caddis, N'Guemo, Samaras, Maloney, Brown, McDonald, Flood, Zaluska, Killen, McManus, McCourt.



Important match for us tonight and Caldwell's moaning about his contract - fcuk the bugger!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/8260673.stm

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Hail Hail................ Come on the Hoops

[lynchbhoy]

hope mowbray sells caldwell as he is a nice lad, decent footballer but never a centre half.

as for the slight negativity, just that Celts are prob going to go out with the wrong formation and are currently not playing well - you cant pull good form and results out of nowhere.
however, if it happens I'll be delighted !

Come on the hoops !

[gerry]

Lets hope the hoops can hold on to this lead

[ONeill]

Catch the end of it - http://www.vip-tv.co.uk/

[gerry]

Should have knowing better than get my hopes up

[Dannymcfella]

Brown was non exsistent tonight, Maloney has no brains whatsoever, put his head down and runs into people, caldwell totally useless gave the ball away more times than he actually held onto it and is as slow as a funeral, not even going to comment on McManus, all round dismal performance against a terrible team

[The Real Laoislad]

Just as well there not in the Champions League

[Clown]

what was mowbray thinking taking off nguemo when 1-0 up away in europe and bringing on mcginn
it took mcginn 15 mins before he touched the ball
bringing killen on was also ridiculous when mcdonald was on the bench

if strachan had made these decisions and lost us a european game he'd hav got dogs abuse

[clarshack]

a new low?

same old story away in europe. just like aalborg last year. get a lead and always f*ck up late on.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Piss poor tonight, but have to say besides some of the bad displays from some of the players, the manager has to accept responsibility for wrong formation and wrong tactics in the second half.

[Main Street]

They looked a bit knackered in the 2nd half.

They looked like  a poor mans Ireland.

[lynchbhoy]

strachan may have drawn at best.
Mowbray did a strachan and played four poor to average players.

maloney, caldwell, mcmanus (not a centre half but is also not match fit) and mcginn were dreadful.

mowbray seems to have made a mistake in selling donati who was playing well before the arsenal games.
Having said all that, the players retreated back too far after they scored.
They stood off hapoel, just like they stood too far off arsenal. This is a problem with mentality.
When Celtic pressed hard in the first half they looked like scoring 4 or 5.
McGeady being hacked down on his breakaway near the end of the firt half was shameful. Still theguy got a yelow card and thatswhat the punishment deserved. McGeady shouldnt have retaliated.
Celtics best player by some distance. Starting to hit form.
Mowbray no worse than strachan. Lets see him hopefully improve from here.
Needs to get rid of the deadwood as mentioned above. Also if caldwell is whinging about his contract and he deserves higher wages, I'd be hoping he is sold.

[Main Street]

On the pitch, Caldwell has delusions he is Beckenbauer.

[Clown]

get caldwell out to f**k and take most of that squad with him

am i the only one to find the substitution of nguemo for mcginn bizarre when 1-0 up away from home in europe??