Wasn't expecting that half. Wow. Rangers will kicking themselves it's still level, Fraser Forster to thank for Celtic. I imagine there'll have to be chances for Celtic up front, there seems to be next to no strategy right now and it'll only be a matter of time before Rangers score otherwise.
Rangers have wasted their chances. It could come back to bite them. Edit: And there's the undeserved goal against the run of play.
Celtic score on the hour.... with their first shot on target. Rangers will be gutted if they lose this.
Celtic have looked better with ten men. Whereas Rangers have gotten worse. Can see this just petering out now.
Best team definitely lost that one, but i doubt anyone incolved with Celtic will care about that. I hope in reflection this spurs Rangers on in the league. It could go either way, but there's lots of positives to take from that, even in defeat.
Cant beat us at our best... Still can't beat us at our absaloute worst. 10 trophys in a row, top of the league, top of EL group... This is how it feels to be Celtic.
How we won that I will never know. Luckiest team in the world today. Couldn't have played any worse and I didnt enjoy one single minute of the game. Even the goal was just sheer relief. At no point even when going ahead did I see us winning. A shambolic performance, but the character was yet again outstanding and a super human performance from Forster got us over the line. As great a feeling as it was to hear the final whistle we need to take stock and realise that we will lose against them in the next game if we play like that again. Folk have to dispense with the talk of them being miles behind or being a poor side. They are clearly a decent side who should have beaten us today. There is a question mark over their mentality though. Delighted at an incredible tenth trophy on the trot, but I hope I don't see us play like that again this season.
Down to 10 men, half of our squad not fit added with a couple of poor performances should have seen us lose today. We didn't. We proved why we are the main team in Scotland. As a side note, a bordering on shocking performance from Collum today which a few of us called. He may have got a couple of calls wrong in our favour but his overall display was that of a man who knew he was under pressure from one team. Repeatedly giving them non existent fouls. Repeatedly not giving us similar and how Morelos was not sent off is beyond belief. Constant fouling and diving and he didn't even get a yellow. We showed out mental strength though and this is gonna hurt them big time. They will convince themselves they should have won etc but the reality is that they didn't take their chances and bottled it. Again.
Agreed pvm, Collum was his usual disgrace today. Morelos could have done whatever he liked out there and that ghoul would still have turned a blind eye. Outside of La Gran Muralla it was a pretty poor team performance from Celtic but then crucially so were our opponents in terms of their finishing and making most out of gifted opportunities. It's pretty clear that Morgan needs loaned out (or even transferred) in January and an able replacement for Eddy gets brought in. If Leigh isn't going to be ready for these kind of games too then he's no real use to us anymore perhaps he needs to consider his options. Can't see the game in a few weeks time being anything like that today. They completely blew their best chance at disrupting our momentum and we will be way more organised, have fitter key players and most importantly a talented front-man allowing us to play how we usually do and stop them from bombing forward and taking hold of midfield.
The biggest surprise for me today was how much their midfield controlled the game. Yes, we didn't have Edouard for the majority of the game which absolutely made a difference, but even allowing for that we should never be getting bossed that much. I expect a completely different game in a few weeks, but that certainly was a bit of any eye opener today. The good thing is that we were fortunate enough to get away with it and now know for sure that we cant be complacent next time.
Yep. Elyounoussi looked nowhere near fit in that first half tbf, his distribution was woeful and in his final 5 minutes he couldn't even chase down loose balls, really disappointing to see. McGregor and Christie both put in much more effort and did try to get stuck in, but their touch was brutal, they lost way too many spillages and had questionable distribution at times. Forrest had a pretty poor game, although he also had nobody really to link up with creatively as Morgan was largely unbearable. Wee Frimpong was easily our most composed player in possession.
That's being generous to him, he was terrible. But we'll let him off as he's been superb for the last 3 years. Felt bit for Morgan. Not only is he not up to our standards, he was out of position again and is never a striker. I know he got a goal against Rennes but he was never going to succeed against a team who were allowed to kick anything that moved.
I'm taking yesterday as payback for the 92 cup semi when they won 1-0 having played most of the game with ten men. Just like yesterday the weather was atrocious, we had almost total dominance, but lost to a goal on the break. There were many bad times in those years, but that one was always right up there for me as one of the toughest to take. So the 5-1 at ibrox has been avenged and yesterday atones the semi in 92. Next to tick off the list would be us winning the title at ibrox or a helicopter Sunday going our way.
Didn't notice it as much yesterday but he Arfield assault of Christie really is a shocker and as clear a red card as you get for any other team.
I don't listen to talkshite, only see on Twitter when they say something daft but this had us in stitches tbf
