Utrecht v Celtic 2nd Leg 19.30

Badabing

Massive night for Celtic and Scottish Football, progress to the group stage is a must. FYI the second half is live on Setanta Ireland first half on Setanta 1.

2-1 Celtic.

Bukman13

Badabing wrote: »

Massive night for Celtic and Scottish Football, progress to the group stage is a must. FYI the second half is live on Setanta Ireland first half on Setanta 1.

2-1 Celtic.

Huge night for Scottish football, they are already likely to lose their automatic spot in the group stages from next season and if Celtic get knocked out they will probably lose 15th spot which means only one team in the Champions League.

Motherwell against Odense is a huge game as Denmark look comfortable in 12th spot (automatic group stages). Also if Dundee United can get past AEK Athens it would be a massive boost to the co-efficient.

Badabing

Totally agree Motherwell getting tru would be great for the League and as for Dundee Utd the fact there will be no Aek fans in the stadium could balance up things in their favour.

PauloMN

Would like to see all the Scottish clubs progressing. Want Rangers to win CL also. Actually, scrap that 2nd bit.

For tonight, Ledley is a must at left-back again.

I think Utrecht will be much stonger tonight than last week, we'll have to be careful not to concede the usual early goal. An away goal for us and I'll settle down for the night, but at 2-0 in our favour, anything still can happen.

My prediction is 3-1 Utrecht and a big "phew". I think we can get a goal if Kayal, Juarez and Sammy play like they did last week. Defence still a bit up in the air although I did like the look of Dan last week.

Skin of Teeth CSC

Bukman13

Badabing wrote: »

Totally agree Motherwell getting tru would be great for the League and as for Dundee Utd the fact there will be no Aek fans in the stadium could balance up things in their favour.

Anderlecht getting knocked out of the Champions league was a big plus. Scotland need to preform better than, Denmark Romania, Belgium and Switzerland this year. If either Motherwell or Dundee Utd get through it will lower the burden on both Rangers and Celtic to get co-efficient pts.

Celtic should really only need one away goal, I reckon they'll scrap through.

Coillte_Bhoy

Beltin down rain over there. Pitch inspection. It may not go ahead

EuskalHerria

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Beltin down rain over there. Pitch inspection. It may not go ahead

Heard that was the case. Would be a shame for the game to not go ahead. Can see this being a draw, despite me betting on different.

Also does anyone know if setanta Ireland are definitely showing the second half? I know it says in the OP it is, but the match is live on Setanta 1 so thought it could be a mistake with Setanta Ireland showing the entire Liverpool game.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

As I said in the Celtic thread I hope they finish the job tonight and get into the group stages

Eirebear

WHile i wont exactly be cheering for Celtic, i do want to see all three teams do well tonight.

Best of luck lads.

Daemos

EuskalHerria wrote: »

Also does anyone know if setanta Ireland are definitely showing the second half? I know it says in the OP it is, but the match is live on Setanta 1 so thought it could be a mistake with Setanta Ireland showing the entire Liverpool game.

Just checked the guide, Setanta Ireland are definately showing the second half. Liverpool game's KO is an hour earlier so will be over in time to show it (barring extra time of course)

TopBombing

Massive game for us tonight.

Need to keep it tight at the back and try to get an away goal.

As stated earlier, Ledley has to start at left full instead of Mulgrew. We've done very well in our last few outings but our travels in Europe speak for themselves. In saying that any of our away results from last season would be enough to see us through tonight.

C'mon the Hoops.

SomethingElse

Celtic seem to be getting better by the game so a cancellation might not be the worst outcome. That said I've been looking forward to this all week!

Sorry for the off-topic but I see Rangers got Valencia, Man Utd and Bursaspor - Can't believe I'll be rooting for them this time but we need to keep our European places I'd fancy them against Valencia and Bursaspor. I hope Dundee Utd can pull something off in their 'home' ground over in Athens

Bukman13

AEK 1-0 - Papa Boupa Diop

SomethingElse

Stream for the match

http://iraqgoals.net/11991-fc-utrecht-vs-celtic-.html

Bukman13

Bad start for Celtic!!! 1-0 Utrecht

flas

anyone got a working stream?cheers

SomethingElse

F****** ref :mad:

SomethingElse

flas wrote: »

anyone got a working stream?cheers

http://iraqgoals.net/11991-fc-utrecht-vs-celtic-.html

PauloMN

SomethingElse wrote: »

F****** ref :mad:

Not the ref, f**kin' Zaluska. Out of his depth at this level.

Exactly what we didn't want to happen. The Celtic shambles in away Euro games continues.

Only switched on after 10 mins, what was the first peno for?

Badabing

Bad Dream has to be :mad:

SomethingElse

PauloMN wrote: »

Not the ref, f**kin' Zaluska. Out of his depth at this level.

Exactly what we didn't want to happen. The Celtic shambles in away Euro games continues.

Only switched on after 10 mins, what was the first peno for?

Trip by Hooiveld

PauloMN

Need to get into half time without another conceded and let Lenny at them. This is utter ****in' dross.

PauloMN

Should have been a red there. Ref has no bottle.

Dolph Starbeam

Ye they should be down to 10 men, Zaluska got something on that ball when he slid out. Terrible start, Fortune is at nothing out wide and there not getting Forrest on the ball at all, some mistakes from Kayal too.

Still all we need is 1 and they have to get 2 more, fingers crossed for the 2nd half

dublincelt

The worst first half performance I have seen from a Celtic side for a long long time. Abject and depressing, only equalled by one of the worst referees I have EVER seen. Yellow card for a headbutt? A penalty when a goalkeeper saves with his legs and his momentum follows through on a player??

We are heading out of Europe and summer is barely over. Lennon is out of his depth.

Please Celtic, make me eat my words by fulltime!

Dolph Starbeam

dublincelt wrote: »

The worst first half performance I have seen from a Celtic side for a long long time. Abject and depressing, only equalled by one of the worst referees I have EVER seen. Yellow card for a headbutt? A penalty when a goalkeeper saves with his legs and his momentum follows through on a player??

We are heading out of Europe and summer is barely over. Lennon is out of his depth.

Please Celtic, make me eat my words by fulltime!

Calls for Lennon's head is a bit pre-mature imo, he's not out there playing, there the ones the finger should be pointed at.

Terrible refereeing for the headbutt, how could he only give a yellow for that?!

PauloMN

MOG7 wrote: »

Ye they should be down to 10 men, Zaluska got something on that ball when he slid out. Terrible start, Fortune is at nothing out wide and there not getting Forrest on the ball at all, some mistakes from Kayal too.

Still all we need is 1 and they have to get 2 more, fingers crossed for the 2nd half

I'd take an accidental volley off Sammy's arse at the moment, we might be relying on a miracle now!

Shocking defending. Cha is all over the place tonight, very poor. Midfield can't string 2 passes together - literally. They look like they didn't expect Utrecht to play like this, can't understand it. Scott Brown back to his usual self, throwing stares at everyone and gets himself booked.

Utrecht will score another I'm sure. We know what we need to do now, and that's score. Extra time will kill this for us so we have to go for it.

dublincelt

MOG7 wrote: »

Calls for Lennon's head is a bit pre-mature imo, he's not out there playing, there the ones the finger should be pointed at.

Terrible refereeing for the headbutt, how could he only give a yellow for that?!

Not calling for his head at all. Just think it has been a big risk to give him the job. Still give him time, but he looks out of his depth sadly.

As I have said, I hope I am proved wrong tonight...

Mr.Nice Guy

3-0 to Utrecht. Celtic are an absolute shambles.

They need to get rid of Lennon pronto. Out of his depth.

Bukman13

Dundee Utd pull a goal back. 1-1 (Agg 2-1)

they have 10mins to score!!!

PauloMN

Well it was coming. Thought it would take more than 60 seconds though.

I'm actually laughing now!

SomethingElse

This sprang to mind!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26082010/58/champions-league-zero-tolerance-poor-refs.html

Wonder if this guy will ref again?

PauloMN

Not one attempt on goal yet for Celtic at 50 mins in. Against Utrecht ffs!

CL games against Barca, AC Milan, Benfica, Utd etc. seem a distant memory.

Get Brown off. Oh, he goes just as I type it.

Dempsey

Cant see a stream and i'll miss the 2nd half, the verdict from ye about the 1st half is depressing. Soft mentality is showing again i'd say, a good win is still being followed by complacency. Lennon needs to hop off them because we've seen how they can play and there is no excuses for turning up and trying to go through the motions at European Level.

1-1 between DUTD and AEK, I hope they can get another. Motherwell look dead and buried

Mr.Nice Guy

Barry Maguire on for Utrecht. The Dutch guy with the Irish father.

dublincelt

PauloMN wrote: »

Not one attempt on goal yet for Celtic at 50 mins in. Against Utrecht ffs!

CL games against Barca, AC Milan, Benfica, Utd etc. seem a distant memory.

Get Brown off. Oh, he goes just as I type it.

Just wish I could turn it off. But I cant. Jesus, this is terrible

Oat23

We all dream of a team of Van Wolfswinkels..

EuskalHerria

This is shocking stuff, to be expected though if you don't show any backbone and allow a team attack you as easily as this. Hope we can pull something out of the bag.

Dempsey

Oatesy23 wrote: »

We all dream of a team of Van Wolfswinkels..

How about you **** off out of this thread?

PauloMN

dublincelt wrote: »

Just wish I could turn it off. But I cant. Jesus, this is terrible

I know, it's like a car crash... just can't help looking.

I wonder was a bit optimistic with the 3-1 prediction....

Picking up silly yellows now as well. :mad:

SomethingElse

Another stream

http://www.firstrow.net/watch/24891/1/watch-fc-utrecht--vs-celtic.html

Oat23

Dempsey wrote: »

How about you **** off out of this thread?

What the hell did I do?

Just because your team aren't playing well don't have a go at me.
I have just as much right to post in this thread as you do son.

edit:

4-0 Barry Maguire

Bob the Seducer

4-0 Maguire

SomethingElse

ffs :mad:

Mr.Nice Guy

Barry Maguire scores. UNBELIEVABLE. 4-0 Utrecht.

Nightmare for Celtic this.

flahavaj

Looks a nice footballer young Maguire.

Celtic really are awful.

LuckyLloyd

Wow, this is really bad. :eek:

Hoki

Why are celtic always so horrendously w@nk away from home in Europe

PauloMN

4-0. Utrecht deserve to go through, had the measure of us big time.

Can't watch any more, think I recorded Eastenders. See yiz!

Eirebear

Another nail in the coffin of Scottish football.

Bob the Seducer

Ki, Ki, give us a goal...