That level of defending won't be the norm. We'll win the league, not struggle to finish top four. I agree it shouldn't be ignored when the team make errors. Tbh honest though I expected a tough game and that's what we got. I'll see how the Spurs game goes before throwing the white towel in.
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Zaba ???? No mate Tierney was Celtcs best outlet all game......too slow these days im afraid.
Zaba broke gazillion of our attacks in 2nd half.
Neville Kneville
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Hang on lets have it right. Their first goal was off side their second was a massive deflection off Sterling and the third was a miss kick. It was one of those nights but we still managed to get something from the game.
By scoring 3 goals & showing character, as I said.
Defending was championship standard. Players involved have previous.
Manchester_lalala
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That's garbage reasoning. As has been pointed out by several others.
What's garbage reasoning?
You think it will be like last season with winning our first number of games and then not playing well?
No, because now we have a coach who will coach. Some on here are going to need to get their diazepam prescriptions in sharpish because we're still going to lose the odd game. Main thing will be are we making improvements on the whole. Would put my house on that being the case. Short term results against Liverpool or Arsenal don't change that at all.
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Fullbacks our weak link, especially on that right.
What do you mean by that? We were confident because we'd won 10 on the bounce? Who'd a thought it.Sadly i think the players believed their own hype tonight.
Zab was terrible and no longer up to the standard required.did anyone else wonder where zab was when that og went in ?
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The mistake tonight was the team selection. Stones should definitely have started. We were far from our best but when you defend like we did you won't win games at any level. We needed 2 full backs last season and we still do.
Thought Fernandinho played like bambi on ice first half, diving in all over the show. But the positive has to be the Raheem Sterling performance. Thought he was absolutely outstanding and took his goal really well. Plus his passing and final ball great too.
Thought Fernandinho played like bambi on ice first half, diving in all over the show. But the positive has to be the Raheem Sterling performance. Thought he was absolutely outstanding and took his goal really well. Plus his passing and final ball great too.
Perhaps this result will shut up all the arrogant city fans who were saying things like "They're a championship side at best"
Probably not though
How true. We have some proper mugs on here.
discopop
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11 games in, 10 wins and 1 draw and this place goes into fucking meltdown, as a team we showed more ticker than we ever did last season despite a few playing under par, Celtic were playing the rags pinball football of old, plenty of effort but really nothing skill wise. Distinctly average from Kol, Ferny and Silky, can't see what Sergio did wrong just couldn't get a chance, Sterling was magnificent. Would have taken the point beforehand as I knew this an ambush in the making. No injuries it seems so we move on.
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Perhaps this result will shut up all the arrogant city fans who were saying things like "They're a championship side at best"
Probably not though
Why should we think any different ? They've conceded 10 goals in 2 games.
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Perhaps this result will shut up all the arrogant city fans who were saying things like "They're a championship side at best"
Probably not though
They are. We were playing a crowd that got in our heads. The Celtic team was shit.
Saying the first was offside is brushing some terrible defending under the carpet though, it wasn't scored because we'd played them offside, it was a shit show that just happened to involve a marginal offside that could have bailed us out. Same for the second, it was an unlucky deflection, but some utterly terrible defensive play to get to that point and the third, although a miss kick, was a sitter laid on by a complete fuck up by Kolarov. They were lucky to score those goals, but all three were shocking defending, to say they were just lucky is being far too kind on our defence and ignores lessons that need to be learned.Hang on lets have it right. Their first goal was off side their second was a massive deflection off Sterling and the third was a miss kick. It was one of those nights but we still managed to get something from the game.
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was already evident in 2014/15 that Zabaleta was not up to it anymore. Peaked in Pellegrini's first seasonZab was terrible and no longer up to the standard required.
flb
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Watch them away from home.
I've seen championship sides beat Premier league teams away. Never mind draw at home.
Bang on mate , they played well in front of 60,000 pissed up loud idiots - it's no biggy.
They will be back to playing Hibs away on Saturday - after playing one of there two biggest home games for the next eighteen months.
some fucking tap dancing fannys on here.
He'd correctly tucked in. Sterling as much as I love him was at fault- he was slow to recover, jogging back before noticing the danger. Defending as a team tonight was woeful-Fernandinho completely isolated in midfield. Stones needed at the back for an aerial presence- far too may balls left bouncing around. Gundagen still short of full fitness, nolito infuriating cutting in every time. That said we kept in the game, played some good stuff in patches and got stronger as the game went on.did anyone else wonder where zab was when that og went in ?
Marginally/debatableHang on lets have it right. Their first goal was off side their second was a massive deflection off Sterling and the third was a miss kick. It was one of those nights but we still managed to get something from the game.
happens
ok/happens
we didn't have that many chances either ... we were poor tonight end of ,whether that was down to celtic or us but we were poor
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Perhaps this result will shut up all the arrogant city fans who were saying things like "They're a championship side at best"
Probably not though
most of their players are champion ship level players though and the they've been shit recently. how in anyway is it arrogant saying that. can we not be confident now we win things ?