Champs League Match Thread:Man Utd V Celtic [All Pre/During/After Match Discussion]

Villain

Do you watch soccer often?

Yes scared as a child I believe

Chong

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Does Tevez have bad scarring on his neck?

Vida got angry one training session and bit him!

bobbysands81

Villain wrote: »

Do you watch soccer often?

Yes scared as a child I believe

No real interest in English soccer so I wouldn't know these things.

A Dub in Glasgo

Villain wrote: »

Do you watch soccer often?

Maybe he doesn't watch English teams often

Villain

bobbysands81 wrote: »

No real interest in English soccer so I wouldn't know these things.

Sorry all this Budget crap has me in bad humour.

bobbysands81

Villain wrote: »

Sorry all this Budget crap has me in bad humour.

No worries.;)

Chong

JOSH really has the control of a toilet brush.

Chong

ROOOOOOON COME ON COME ON

Mitch Connor

he is in stunning form at the moment.

A Dub in Glasgo

Loovens should really have got tighter

bobbysands81

Hopefully the start of a long and great career for Sheridan.

Chong

I wanna state I hate Nani, is a selfish waster.

Headshot

Bill wrote: »

Fecking Nani, such a frustrating git to watch.

Nani is having a very good game imo

best iv seen him play for awhile

bobbysands81

Is Old Trafford always this quiet or is it like this cos United are cruising?

A Dub in Glasgo

The MU fans make a noise there in response to Celtic fans singing

dr.bollocko

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote: »

Nani is having a very good game imo

best iv seen him play for awhile

He catches headless chicken syndrome way too much in a game. But there is potential there. Christ I wouldnt let him near a corner though!

Chong

Rooney for me MOTM.

PauloMN

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Is Old Trafford always this quiet or is it like this cos United are cruising?

In fairness, ever hear CP when we're playing, say, Livi? That's the gulf in class here. Hardly exciting stuff.

dr.bollocko

Bill wrote: »

Rooney for me MOTM.

Honourable mention for Anderson. Chasing balls and players down from start to finish.

Chong

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Honourable mention for Anderson. Chasing balls and players down from start to finish.

Yup good job by Anderson, not to mention Berba

Ronnie is still off though.

eirebhoy

The first CL match I can remember Boruc make a big mistake and he makes 2. Not a great season from him so far.

McManus was excellent I thought. Nothing he could do about the goals.

McGeady had a good game too overall. Very mature performance.

Anyway, I think 3-0 was the most popular prediction amongst Celtic fans so I don't think many will be overly disappointed.

PHB

United played very well, should have scored more. Still feel like United have another level to their game currently, theres a lack of clinicalness currently I think.

PauloMN

eirebhoy wrote: »

Anyway, I think 3-0 was the most popular prediction amongst Celtic fans so I don't think many will be overly disappointed.

I'm delighted!

Just wanted a red card to complete the evening!

We were never going to win that game, but without Samaras and JVoH, we didn't have a prayer. McDonald was completely ineffective up there, and Naylor seemed to forget we'd no big strikers playing when he stuck the crosses in.

Caldwell's passing let us down a few times where he had worked hard to get into a good position, and where a decent pass might have had us creating more. Had a great shot on goal early on though, and in fairness to him he's injured.

McGeady was our best player I thought. I know there's no point in finger pointing over this game - we all knew what the result would be, but I do think in general that Naylor and Wilson are completely out of their depths in the CL, and are vulnerable even in the SPL.

We'll have to fight tooth and nail for a diddy cup spot now.

Mr. Presentable

PauloMN wrote: »

In fairness, ever hear CP when we're playing, say, Livi? That's the gulf in class here. Hardly exciting stuff.

Spot on. The "World's biggest club" beats a team from Scotland, having been handed a one goal start to boot. Ho hum.

Dave!

Rooney was amazing again today
Ando was great too
Ronaldo was 'okay'...
J Evans looking like the real deal thankfully!

Headshot

Dave! wrote: »

Rooney was amazing again today
Ando was great too
Ronaldo was 'okay'...
J Evans looking like the real deal thankfully!

taught Ronaldo was very poor

i do like Evan imo going to be great player but he didnt really have much trouble to deal with tonight

celtic are a very poor team

lisbon_lions

We were robbed, absolutely robbed. 2 offside goals and a fortunate strike by Rooney.

Thats my view anyway, and i'm sticking to it.....
:P

Im_No_Superman

Very comfortable performance tonight, thought Rooney and Berbatov were top class. Evans did well, very composed. My ratings would be:

VDS 7 - Not alot to do, but made a couple of smart saves and was solid over all
Neville 6 - Ok performance, crossing was poor though
Evans 7 - Very comfortable on the ball and made a couple of very timely interceptions
Vidic 7 - Solid as ever
O'Shea 6 - Defensively did ok, not alot going forward
Ronaldo 6 - Solid enough, still not quite back to the top of his game though
Anderson 7 - Worked hard, did the simple things well.
Fletcher 6 - Solid enough, bad miss in the first half though
Nani 6 - Did ok, put some good crosses in and wasnt as wastefull as he can be
Berbatov 8 - Would have got a 9 if he played the whole game, thought he was outstanding, his best game in a United shirt
Rooney 9 - Keeps up his excellant good form, his confidence is sky high right now

K4t

Good performance. If we win the group early we can rest players for the remaining games and really concentrate on the PL. It looks like it's going to be a 4 way race this year with United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Hull all starting well.

Please God don't let Rooney get injured. He will be the key this season.

OPENROAD

K4t wrote: »

Please God don't let Rooney get injured. He will be the key this season.

He is looking very good for you at the moment, seems to like October, last season October was his best period before he went off the boil a bit.

shane86

Dave! wrote: »

Ando was great too

*wipes eyes at this and the Nani was poor remarks*

Anderson was average. Not poor like so often he has been in CL, just decidedly average. Did the job but didnt do much else bar cleverly reading one bad Celtic pass around the quarter line.

Nani worked hard and is coming along more and more. Still of the opinion that in seven years Nani will be a top player and Anderson will be a UEFA cup regular if he is lucky. Against big sides he has absoloutely nothing about him. He is not a top 4 player, apparently not a great international and he is not CL knockout rounds quality. Journeyman is about the best credit you could give, if that.


McGeady was great, and despite only having 10 odd mins Sheridan impressed me, good run or two out of him, played a good pass to the box where if his teammates had a brain cell between them one of them would have positioned themselves, and held his own and played back when he had two or three defenders on him. Reckon he deserves a run out vs Poland (friendlies allow for 6 odd subbings or something dont they?). Why play Keane vs Poland? We know if we do he will probably get a hatrick but it will still be **** all indicator of how he performs in the next competitive game

Naylor was shocking. Boruc had a poor night and Nakamura is somewhat overrated Im afraid.

MisterAnarchy

Dunphy and Giles crowing about Rooney,world class,great player,great attitute,Tiger Woods,Ruby Walsh ,blah blah blah.
Why is it that after every Man Utd Champions league match they have to have a rant about either Rooney,Ronaldo or Scholes.
Why dont they analyse the bloody match.

cournioni

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Hopefully the start of a long and great career for Sheridan.

Great to see him make an appearance at Old Trafford. I know his mother and father and they'll be proud as hell to see him come on, as is the whole county of Cavan. Probably the only time I've ever wanted someone to score against United...

On the game itself, I thought it was very poor as a contest. United completely dominated and probably should have done slot better with the amount of possession they had. Happy with the 3-0 win though.

shane86

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Great to see him make an appearance at Old Trafford. I know his mother and father and they'll be proud as hell to see him come on, as is the whole county of Cavan. Probably the only time I've ever wanted someone to score against United...

Was certainly hoping he would net a consolation goal myself. Must be first cyaahvan man to play in the CL is he?

eirebhoy

shane86 wrote: »

and despite only having 10 odd mins Sheridan impressed me, good run or two out of him, played a good pass to the box where if his teammates had a brain cell between them one of them would have positioned themselves, and held his own and played back when he had two or three defenders on him.

He impressed me too. If he got a run of games for his teammates to get used to him he could be excellent. He just seems to read the game superbly. Naylor or Maloney were on the left. As soon as they went to put a cross in he made the run forward and left the defender for dead. The ball didn't pass the first man but if it got to him he was unmarked because of that good run (sounds like a basic thing for a striker to do but it was just the timing was spot on). He beat the offside trap well once too. He has decent pace for a big guy and it looks like he'll score a few.

estebancambias

McGeady if nothing else showed tonight he definetly has a good footballing brain.


He certainly didn't look any worse than the United wingers on show and was definetly smarter on the ball than Ronaldo. The problem with Aiden IMO is that he doesn't demand the ball enough and I feel he should be more selfish.

shane86

eirebhoy wrote: »

He impressed me too. If he got a run of games for his teammates to get used to him he could be excellent. He just seems to read the game superbly. Naylor or Maloney were on the left. As soon as they went to put a cross in he made the run forward and left the defender for dead. The ball didn't pass the first man but if it got to him he was unmarked because of that good run (sounds like a basic thing for a striker to do but it was just the timing was spot on). He beat the offside trap well once too. He has decent pace for a big guy and it looks like he'll score a few.

Indeed. Debuting on the big stage in a big game and pulling it off, I only hope he isnt McShane mark II :pac: Seriously though, he played well, maybe it was Strachans nerves about trying to let a young lad save the game when it was theoretically still within grasp that prevented his intro until the very last, but given even 40 minutes I wouldnt have bet against him either scoring or else forcing a good save or two. Ran through two defenders near the box at one point, played a smooth back pass from near the corner into the box (where, as said, any forward with vision should have legged it straight to beforehand), held his own and passed back during an attack near the midfield, very promising stuff. Surprised he wasnt on the radar for the Notts Forest friendly at least, I look out for the new Irish names but tbh the first time Ive heard of him was yesterday when he was mentioned on this forum.


*Looks forward to CL 2009, Celtic vs new money Man City*

Ill be in my living room chanting "who needs ya baldy, we have Shero" if he nets

cournioni

shane86 wrote: »

Was certainly hoping he would net a consolation goal myself. Must be first cyaahvan man to play in the CL is he?

Where is this cyaahvan place you speak of?? Never heard of it! Yeah I would say he is the first alright. Can't think of any others.

shane86

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Where is this cyaahvan place you speak of?? .

Your sig seems to highlight the pronounciation

*: though Im fairly sure it is from a Tommy Tiernan piece, am I right? Have mates who are mad into him, personally I think TT is the Anderson of comedy. Overrated.

cournioni

shane86 wrote: »

Your sig seems to highlight the pronounciation

*: though Im fairly sure it is from a Tommy Tiernan piece, am I right? Have mates who are mad into him, personally I think TT is the Anderson of comedy. Overrated.

Oi! No y's or h's on it's pronunciation in my sig bucko!! Yeah it's a TT gag alright, very funny, funny because it's so true! Some absolute loons around here! I'm afraid tiernan wouldn't be as class with a brass, nor **** on Fabregas like Anderson does though!! :-P

PHB

estebancambias wrote: »

McGeady if nothing else showed tonight he definetly has a good footballing brain.

He certainly didn't look any worse than the United wingers on show and was definetly smarter on the ball than Ronaldo. The problem with Aiden IMO is that he doesn't demand the ball enough and I feel he should be more selfish.

Sorry, I saw another McGeady tonight. He dribbled well. Had one decent shot. That's about it. Was good in a poor Celtic team, so I'm pretty forgiving about his performance, but like, lets not laud it as something it wasn't/

That said, its clear he is another level to Celtic players. His movement is just better than theirs. He desperately needs to move on before he stagnates imo, needs a premiership club. He clearly has bags of potential, needs to realise it.

Daysha

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Dunphy and Giles crowing about Rooney,world class,great player,great attitute,Tiger Woods,Ruby Walsh ,blah blah blah.
Why is it that after every Man Utd Champions league match they have to have a rant about either Rooney,Ronaldo or Scholes.
Why dont they analyse the bloody match.

I can't remember the last time RTE actually properly analysed a match. They just waffle on with over-generalised rants about people or clubs, rather than actually breaking down the teams performance and analysing it, something they should be doing from the start.

estebancambias

Rooney like Torres represents everything the heavies on RTE love .

They always go on about him, even when Rooney was playing ****, Dunphy would cry and say Ferguson is destroying him.

If anyone remembers it tooks Dunphy a while to coming around to liking Messi.

anonymous_joe

Yeah, was listening to them in disbelief.

They really love 'character' and all that. The reason the English clubs have been plundering every corner of the world is because the English values have their place, but aren't the be all and end of all of everything.

I'm loving Berbatov's lazy football actually. He could really grow into an even better player with the guys around him.

shane86

Had to laugh at the discussion of Ronaldos lack of celebrating at West Brom.

If he ran to the crowd like he had just scored the CL winner he would be accused of showboating against poor little West Brom ffs.

Nalz

anonymous_joe wrote: »

They really love 'character' and all that. .

They're old school

kida

UTVs post match analysis proved that Berbatov was actually onside for the first goal, he was level with the last defenders trailing leg.

Boggles

We never did get Dunphys video collection of Berbatov in the analysis.

Anderson and Nani had very good games last night, prob the best I have seen them.

Players like Fletcher and O'Shea are really showing how priceless they are.

For me thou, impression of the night was left by Evans he really does look like the real deal.

United still havn't hit top gear but they are getting there, that is 5 wins in the last 5 games, scoring 14 conceeding 0.

kida

3 of our first choice back 4 and our first 3 CM were alll missing

Nalz

kida wrote: »

3 of our first choice back 4

I wonder is Brown considered first choice by Fergie anymore? Hope so