Celtic FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

Some of those VAR decisions were an absolute disgrace, how the f was that not a handball at the end for us.

Well done Celtic,3 points despite the dirty tricks and constant cheating from the officials through var,we are going to get shafted in our future games.this blatant cheating by the officials has to be called out once and for all.

Great game to watch but I think most of us knew VAR would be a disaster in Scotland and today looks to back that up.

Why did the ref blow his whistle when the cross was coming in for Ralston's goal, hand ball at the end of the first half was undoubtedly a penalty. No lines shown to confirm if Abada was actually offside when his goal was disallowed.

Always a tough game playing Hearts at Tynecastle so to come away with a win is always a good result. Rested a good few players so hopefully raring to go on Tuesday

Very attacking team selection from Ange. Delighted to see both Giakoumakis and Kyogo starting. Need to win the game and hopefully Real beat Leipzig so there’s still a chance of EL qualification on match day 6.

Can't fault the effort but ultimately fell short again.

Some very sloppy passing and decisions in front of goal. Need a bit more quality in the attacking positions especially no. 10. Had hoped we'd get big games from Abada & Haksabanovic but both were poor.

Hard luck Bhoys. I feared they would come up short again tonight. I don’t think they created enough chances tonight to win the game, it was definitely the right result on the night. They could have lost on another night, so maybe this is a sign of progress. You can’t fault the players efforts, they gave it 110%. It’s been a sad campaign for the Scottish teams, the coefficient has taken an absolute hammering. I know people don’t like talking about the coefficient, but the reality is Scottish teams need to be in Europe after Christmas. Runs like Rangers last season secured the automatic CL place for Scotland and earned respect for the Scottish game, but Scotland now risk losing this place almost as soon as they secured it. It’s a shame, it’s a bit of a catch 22 situation really. You can only hope that the experience this year will make them stronger in the future.

I understand how the coefficient works, and it runs a season behind effectively. I do take your point. Rangers run last season keeps the automatic place for next season, but after this we all know what will happen. Bad results will mean they drop from 8th place. Rangers has contributed significantly more coefficient points to Scotlands total over last four seasons, these figures are publicly available. You get into CL league, Celtic and Rangers both struggle, lose their place in rankings, and then struggle to get back in. Hopefully then one or other has a few good runs in Europa, they get the automatic place back, and they struggle again in CL. It does seem a little rinse and repeat here. I honestly don’t know what the answer is. Nights at Celtic Park and Ibrox are magical in the CL. I’d love to see them both being competitive again.

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A very good performance from Celtic today,what a horrible plastic pitch that is to try and play on, strange how we were given the penalty today and last week we were robbed of one for the same thing.

Strange that. Of those 3 would rate both Kyogo and Hatate as better players than Maeda.

What a shocking decision for peno that’s embarrassing from Scottish football officials, they are woeful up there Var I thought would help but that’s disgraceful