The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[dillinger]

Hope that dropped point away to Barca won't put them out.
Deserve to go through after that win.

[Orchardman]

Got that right, liverpool are a bit of a joke of a club the last 20 years, and have done nothing in champions league in the last 5 years. Celtic are heading for their 3rd last 16 place in the last 5-6 years, only barca and milan knocked them out.

Ive nothing against man u or liverpool or any of them really, just dont like the EPL, and realise that it's way overblown. But i cudn't believe the amount of lads that wanted to dampen the celtic win last. They should just clear off and enjoy the silly EPL

Someone said arsenal, chelsea, liverpool and man u have all beaten Barca in recent years. Well when did this happen, as it must be after 2008 when the guardiola era started, which is what counts, when Barca won two champions leagues. Chelsea are the only i can remember, and they were seriously jammy.

Celtic were of course very lucky night, but they havn't spent the millions that chelsea and co have, so it's no harm to put everyone behind the ball

Agree with alot you say, but money talks and the EPL has buckets of it. Even last night there was talk of Celtic Players being watched by EPL clubs and how they should feel priveledged.

Sheer will from the Fans and players got Celtic over the line last night. European games are bigger for Celtic than they are EPL Clubs. In Europe Celtic are playing their equals or better, in their own league they are playing (truthfully minus Rangers) inferior opposition. EPL Clubs are looking down their noses at the opposition in Europe unless they are Italian, Spanish or Bayern. Hopefully Celtic can reap the rewards and qualify for the knock out stages and get a bit more dosh and exposure.

Well that's it. I cant' defend the SPL because it is a poorer league without doubt.

But what Dunphy ( love the man, no matter what people say about him!) said last ngt was true. Celtic are used to constantly having maybe 70% possession in their own league and scoring for fun, even though their only joint top this year. So for them to put in 2 performances like that is astonishing, with a defensive plan carried out to perfection.

It also backs up my belief about the saying ' the better team always wins'. It is nonsense, i was disgusted when chelsea beat barca in the semi last year after being swamped over 2 legs. Celtic did the same, but we did it with much less resources. I make this point as i wouldn't wanna be a hypocrite, they was quite a bit of anger on this board last year after the chelsea win!

Fair play to  lenny, was delighted when you got the job and now really proved his worth.

[Orchardman]

Hope that dropped point away to Barca won't put them out.
Deserve to go through after that win.

I reckon a point away to benfica in the next game wud ensure 2nd place, that right?

By the way, i was thinking celtic's record against barca in recent years must be as good as most teams. 2004 was the start of the recent rivalry i suppose, not sure if they ever played before that. I was there that night that thompson scored the winner in the uefa cup. There was a run of games of 21 games away in europe where celtic's only point was actually away in the new camp!

Anyone care to fill in the gaps?

2004- 1-0 celtic at home, 0-0 away (Uefa cup)
2004/5  1-3 at parkhead when larsson returned, was it 1-1 in barca?

2008- Barcelona won 4-2 on aggregate

2012 -Barca 2-1, Celtic 2-1

Good record!

[charlieTully]

3-2 at parkhead in 2008 i think. theirry henry got the winner. the c..t

[Gazzler]

Liverpool 5 European finals and World club final winning 4 of them plus a few more European semi finals since 2001....Not bad for a team who are a bit of a joke!!

[charlieTully]

Liverpool 5 European finals and World club final winning 4 of them plus a few more European semi finals since 2001....Not bad for a team who are a bit of a joke!!

no doubting their European pedigree. bit of a disaster domestically since the premier league started.

[Gazzler]

Liverpool 5 European finals and World club final winning 4 of them plus a few more European semi finals since 2001....Not bad for a team who are a bit of a joke!!

no doubting their European pedigree. bit of a disaster domestically since the premier league started.

True but I'm just pointing out they are hardly a bit of a joke like one poster said with a record like the one above and all of that success I mentioned is all from the last 10 years.
The Premier League has eluded them but they have also done pretty well in the domestic cups.

[Main Street]

Catalan tv  give their tribute to  YNWA and the Green Brigade display

http://www.esport3.cat/video/4327390

[ONeill]

Confirmed tonight that Celtic had 5% possession.

[laoislad]

Confirmed tonight that Celtic had 5% possession.

And 3% of that was in the warm up before the game.

[charlieTully]

Confirmed tonight that Celtic had 5% possession.

And 3% of that was in the warm up before the game.
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Two goals with such little possession, not bad eh?

[T Fearon]

Big question is how many more European Cup wins would Celtic have and how many less would Liverpool have if

A) Feyenoord hadn't been treated so lightly in the 1970 Final

B) The services of Hay,Macari,Connolly,Dalglish had been retained throughout the 70s.

FFs Liverpool won European Cups with the likes of Emlyn Hughes and Tommy Smyth playing

[ballinaman]

Manchester United currently have more points in the Champions League than Liverpool have in the Premier league. Move along, nothing to see here.

[laoislad]

Big question is how many more European Cup wins would Celtic have and how many less would Liverpool have if

A) Feyenoord hadn't been treated so lightly in the 1970 Final

B) The services of Hay,Macari,Connolly,Dalglish had been retained throughout the 70s.

FFs Liverpool won European Cups with the likes of Emlyn Hughes and Tommy Smyth playing

You forgot C)How many more would Liverpool have if they had of been in Europe in the mid to late 80's.

[EC Unique]

Manchester United currently have more points in the Champions League than Liverpool have in the Premier league. Move along, nothing to see here.

interesting point.