The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Captain Obvious]

Borussia Dortmund finished bottom of Arsenal's Champions league group last year in fairness they have improved since. Bayern Munich with home advantage couldn't beat a Chelsea side that finshed 6th in the Premier league. Celtic should have nothing to fear from Schalke if they are drawn against them.

[Main Street]

Shalke have a very good team.
Last year Dortmund  did a belly flop in the CL when they were fancied by some to be the business, this year they are on song.

[trileacman]

Borussia Dortmund finished bottom of Arsenal's Champions league group last year in fairness they have improved since. Bayern Munich with home advantage couldn't beat a Chelsea side that finshed 6th in the Premier league. Celtic should have nothing to fear from Schalke if they are drawn against them.

Man City are the best team in the PL and for two successive seasons have flopped in the CL. You can use league standings anyway you want but the Germans are definitely at a superior standard to the PL.

[rodney trotter]

Drawn against Juve. Think that's the end of the European run for Celtic sadly..
Juve have been very impressive this season and Top of Seria A.

[ardal]

Anybody have the full draw?

[seafoid]

Anybody have the full draw?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/20/manchester-united-madrid-champions-league

[T Fearon]

Great draw and brings back fond memories of an epic tie in Glasgow won 4-3 by Celtic in Glasgow in 2001.Celtic definitely have a chance,Serie A is not that hot currently,and it's not so long ago that Shamrock Rovers caused Juventus problems in Europe.

[camanchero]

would have liked to get man utd as I think that they could be beaten - they have a dodgy enough defence!
Juve missing Chelini for the next 2-3 months so thats a plus for Celtic as I think he is a good defender.
its bonus time for the Celts, and i am delighted to say that I was completely wrong about how they would fare in the group stages. Though a lucky win and a couple of draws might be the best they could hope for.
A bit lucky imo and set up to play an olden style def counter attacking continential type of game- but it worked well.
I expect to be going to the first leg n Glasgow.

[tyroneStatto]

decent enough draw for celtic. didn't want utd even though they are beatable - due to the whole battle of britain pish.

[Main Street]

Juve were about the 3rd strongest team in the draw for Celtic

The Celtic team that played Milan in the 2007 CL last 16,
was
Boruc, Telfer, McManus, O'Dea, Naylor, Nakamura (Miller 106), Lennon, Sno (Beattie 97), McGeady, Jarosik (Gravesen 62), Vennegoor of Hesselink.
Pirlo was in that classy Milan team, that was the best in Europe at the time. Celtic definitely have a chance with the team they have now.

[camanchero]

more so if they can get Forrest back MS
Still its great to be back up where Celtic belong -among the Euro greats.
On a shoestring budget too !

[illdecide]

A nice win yesterday, they played well enough to get the 3pts but the diving from that bollix of Motherwell had me angry. Not once but twice and justice was done with a mighty save from Forester on the penalty, even the commentators were angry from  is diving...

[tyroneStatto]

A nice win yesterday, they played well enough to get the 3pts but the diving from that bollix of Motherwell had me angry. Not once but twice and justice was done with a mighty save from Forester on the penalty, even the commentators were angry from  is diving...

the ball wasn't even on the penalty spot either! the ref tried his best to shaft celtic.

[camanchero]

although being the top team seems to influence decisions their way for man united in epl, in Celtic countries, being top dog goes against you  - with the begrudgery gene seemingly influential !
Celtic are top dogs and every one (team) wants to try and bring them down  -but not in a bad (sectarian) way.
ok the ref was wrong and may have over stepped the mark - but thats reality. its not fair, but I suppose these people see a big money club pitted aganst teams who can barely keep afloat and possibly subconsciously give a bit more to the underdogs.

I suppose if it had have been rangers, I'd believe that there could be an element of bias (and or sectarianism) in it .
rangers get the same hassle for being a big team also. However they have a lot of rangers daft fans who are refs and wont be long in ensuring they get decisions in games to keep them promoted until back in spl.

Celtic's problem is that they play three defensive midfielders - sometimes two - and have no creativity from central midfield.
Celtic rely heavily on good wing play , but with no expert heading exponent centre forward it detracts from the wing play.
The counter attacking game with Samaras, Hooper, Commons and Forrest is great for europe - but in spl against 11 man defenses - they need either a creative central midfielder (or two) to unlock these defenses and turn their vast superior posession into goals or a centre forward who can score in the air like Sutton or BBJ  (if I were lennon, Id be looking to fill both these categories in January).
Celtic without Forrest are very unbalanced and lacking. Will win the spl, but lack the killer punch.

[illdecide]

Yeah, couldn't argue with that. I always said that too, when you look at Man U etc they always seem to get the big decisions no matter who they're playing but Celtic seem to get shafted. I couldn't believe the commentators yesterday they were going mad at the diving for the penalty and the incident shortly afterwards and demanded the player get booked, they were also astonished how easy Mulgrew was booked and there were two incidents similar in the 2nd half for Well and Celtic just got a free kick...usually the home team gets the 50/50  decisions but hey we all know the score with that.