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| Villareal v Celtic 30/09/2008 | |
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| blair7-1 | Sep 25 2008, 09:04 AM Post #1 |
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Time to be friends (after the game), but I`m sure we can show Europe how to behave on foreign shores. I have a decent feeling about this game as for the first time under WGS I go into this game feeling the other team will have to score at least two goals to beat us. Why oh why can we not try and play football every week? Credit where it is due and the team has played very well last two games. We need to take this onto bigger fixtures though and this will be an acid test. I think Crosas should start, and this may be the ideal game for him. We cannot afford to run for 90mins and need a man on the park to stop the ball and chose telling balls instead of humping it upfield. Boruc Hinkel Mick Caldwell Naylor Naka Brown Crosas McGeadie Maloney Samaras We have to make good use of the ball and mark tightly at set pieces. Spanish teams are deadly at dead ball situations and if we can restrict them to long shots, Artur will be up to it I`m sure. 2-1 to Celtic and breaking our duck away from home howtobehaveatfootballcsc |
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I`m not biased. I don`t care who beats Rangers It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends." Jock Stein | |
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| Keving | Sep 25 2008, 09:54 AM Post #2 |
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Villarreal have more a South American flavour to them than Spanish. They will think nothing off mixing it if needed. Judging by past away trips under GS, a hard working centre midfield 3 will probably start, which means Hartley, Brown and Robson. Maloney and Sammy are the others who are probably already penciled in. I reckon Aiden will get the nod over Naka in a midfield 5 wie Shaun on the otherside. I would like to go toe to toe wie Villarreal but GS's functional coaching method means he will revert to the template of all Brutish coaches. |
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| melbournebhoy | Sep 28 2008, 09:28 AM Post #3 |
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Hinkel and Robson injured I fear. |
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| desachi | Sep 28 2008, 09:52 AM Post #4 |
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I can see it being a 4-4-2 again, though the case for 4-5-1 must be strong as well. If he goes 4-4-2 then I think it will be the same team that started against Aberdeen with Caldwell in for Loovens, and if it is a 4-5-1 then I think it will be... Boruc Wilson Caldwell McManus Naylor McGeady Hartley Naka Brown Maloney Samaras My own preference would be that Crosas plays as I think this game is going to be all about ball retention and he is better than Hartley in that regard, but with WGS, who knows? Villareal are excellent at the Madrigal, and a top top side, so we will have to be at the very top of our game to get anything from it. |
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In the nation of the blind the one eyed man is king. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing HWEUCSC & Chicago CSC Buena Vista Celtic Club, Keeping the Green Flag Flying High | |
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| Wiggy | Sep 29 2008, 08:18 AM Post #5 |
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I thought it would be appropriate to post the story about Vilareal CSC before the match tomorrow : :thumbs.up:
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/2006/02/c...ners-will.shtml |
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| Doc67 | Sep 29 2008, 09:13 AM Post #6 |
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If the Huns can beat Lyon 3-0 in their own place then we can go to Villareal and win! Why not? No-one gave them any hope there and NO_ONE gives us any chance in The Madrigal! It will be very hard,obviously, but if each to a man can concentrate fully and stick to the task in hand for the 90mins then we can do it.Of course we can!! Mona Celtic :thumbs.up: :luck: :celtic: etc
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| pye266 | Sep 29 2008, 02:42 PM Post #7 |
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1 day to go and already i'm
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| tigergerry | Sep 30 2008, 01:34 AM Post #8 |
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setanta sports news states that robson is fit for the game tonight |
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| buckfasthero | Sep 30 2008, 02:32 AM Post #9 |
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We need to go for this one. I don't mind if we get beat 2-0 if we are positive throughout the entire match and try to take the game to them. Strachan likes to (sometimes patronisingly) applaud teams like Motherwell and Falkirk when they come to Celtic Park and refuse to sit back so it's time he followed his own advice. I'll go for: Boruc Naylor Loovens Caldwell Wilson McGeady Crosas Robson Nakamura Maloney Samaras. |
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| tigergerry | Sep 30 2008, 03:31 AM Post #10 |
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naylor on the right and wilson on the left of the back four is that maybe a mistake on your behalf b.k. or is it a new idea to flummox villareal
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| buckfasthero | Sep 30 2008, 03:48 AM Post #11 |
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All part of the masterplan, Gerry OK, swap Naylor for Wilson and McGeady for Nakamura. Actually, scrub that. Leave Nakamura and McGeady where they are, let them play on the correct wings for a change. And have Maloney playing off McGeady. Eh, so that would be: Boruc Wilson Caldwell Loovens Naylor McGeady Robson Crosas Nakamura Maloney Samaras. |
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| tigergerry | Sep 30 2008, 04:14 AM Post #12 |
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do ya think yid fool me me with that one :tongue.out: so yir drapping big mick and going twa up front |
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| buckfasthero | Sep 30 2008, 05:23 AM Post #13 |
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I think two up front is an absolute must for tonights game, and it's not like Maloney can't drop back into midfield to give options to Robson or Crosas who I would want to play a more holding role. The defence is a big problem and it's one that I think I might have got wrong giving it a second look. I was away all weekend so haven't watched the game on Saturday but from what I read the entire defence was woeful. Maybe dropping the captain isn't the right move for this game, though. I'm presuming you watched the game Tiger, what did you make of the McManus-Loovens pairing? |
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| blair7-1 | Sep 30 2008, 07:18 AM Post #14 |
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I`m fed up with Celtic going away from home in the CL and getting drubbed 2 or 3 nil and it`s high time out of respect for the travelling fans that we look upon ourselves as there on merit. Lyon, Villareal themselves, and Porto to name a few have all managed to master playing away from home and they are nothing great imo. It comes down to wether the Manager is brave enough to say feck it and go for it away v Villareal and the Danes especially. If he had the balls, I reckon we can take the Yellow Submarines and could try a 4-3-3. Sitting back will bring Hellfire and we will galantly get pumped. |
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I`m not biased. I don`t care who beats Rangers It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends." Jock Stein | |
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| Doc67 | Sep 30 2008, 09:34 AM Post #15 |
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When the hun played them over there a few years ago, they attacked Villareal and were if i'm honest, very unlucky not to win We should do the same and i reckon if we do (as Blair says) we will get a result! Tonite is the night for the away day monkey to be lifted 2-0 tic |
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