The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[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.

[omagh_gael]

I see Rosenberg beat Ajax 1-0 in Holland last night. Makes Celtic's progress look all the more impressive.

[Applesisapples]

Stevie G said on BT Sport that Brendan shared the tactics with him before hand and that was how it worked out.

[ned]

The point is football is like that. A lot of goals can be attributed to a deflection, an opponent's mistake, a poor referee decision. Only one goal, Griffiths', was due to luck.

[Hectic]

I do think Astana are a better team that what the score line suggests and I reckon you will see them pull some decent results in the Europa League (please god).

[illdecide]

Armstrong signs a new deal...Brendy showed him who is boss...Sign or take your face for one.

Roberts on his way too next week on another 12 month loan deal and with Nitcham looking good that's a few good signings, please give us a good draw in CL and hopefully we can at least get 3rd with a possibility of 2nd (who knows). Was reading today but can't remember where that Celtic have a decent chance of going into bowl 3 for the CL draw (depends on another teams result who are trailing 2-1, think it's HNK Rejeka who play Olympicos)

[ned]

Armstrong signs a new deal...Brendy showed him who is boss...Sign or take your face for one.

Roberts on his way too next week on another 12 month loan deal and with Nitcham looking good that's a few good signings, please give us a good draw in CL and hopefully we can at least get 3rd with a possibility of 2nd (who knows). Was reading today but can't remember where that Celtic have a decent chance of going into bowl 3 for the CL draw (depends on another teams result who are trailing 2-1, think it's HNK Rejeka who play Olympicos)

It's any one of four teams. Sevilla, Napoli, Liverpool as well as Olimpiakos. Liverpool could struggle yet. Pot 3 doesn't guarantee easy forth team unfortunately.

[Milltown Row2]

At what point can Celtic's grading (for the want of a better word) be increased?