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Post by WullieFort on Oct 25, 2017 16:38:52 GMT
CL apart, this will undoubtedly be Celtic's toughest match of the season.
The Dons let themselves down last season with too many points dropped to teams at the other end of the table. Currently
they are like Celtic, unbeaten and seem to have learned from the disappointments of last year. Their manager seems always to be looking for a striker, in spite of the fact that Adam Rooney has been one of the most prolific scorers in the country. for a few seasons. He is back in favour now and a very real danger to the Bhoys iffy defence. Chances are that Griffiths will get a rest which is bad news for Aberdeen as it means a return for Moussa Dembele who showed against Hibs at the weekend why so many teams had a look at him before his injury. I think Celtic will be happy to return to Glasgow with a draw.
Just digressing for a minute, a lot of our injuries recently have been damaged hamstrings and I'm a little bit bothered that these are taking so long to heel. Makes me wonder if Celtic's medical team are up to their job.
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Post by nogbad on Oct 25, 2017 16:55:16 GMT
Last night's Edinburgh derby was very enjoyable, so I'm hoping against hope for the statistical improbability of good SPFL matches on successive nights. I fancy Aberdeen to scrape a draw, but that's not enough for an actual title challenge, unfortunately. As I mentioned here last week, I thought Lustig was good against Bayern, and Boyata fairly competent, and they both continued in that vein against Hibs, so I think your defence is solid enough, perhaps surprisingly.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 25, 2017 17:04:57 GMT
1-0 to the Dons
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 25, 2017 17:42:15 GMT
Catl, ever the optimist !  |
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 25, 2017 19:47:56 GMT
Aberdeen 0 Celtic 2
Aberdeen have been woeful. Celtic are strolling through this game knocking the ball about with intent. Dembele's physicality is more than the Don's defence can handle and with Sinclair benched Tierney has the whole left side to himself and he is making the most of it, scoring the opener and setting up the second for Dembele. Only criticism is that Armstrong, McGregor and Rogic are all too much of a muchness. Maybe another striker would create some space in the middle,
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 25, 2017 20:51:43 GMT
Aberdeen 0 Celtic 3
As poor an Aberdeen performance as I have seen. Lucky to finish with 11 players. There were some wild tackles out there, aimed mostly at Dembele whom they couldn't handle. He reminded us all why there was all that talk of £40m last year. Fast, strong and with his fair share of skill, he is a handful. Celtic's defence indulged, second half in some tiki-taki stuff but they are not as good as they think they are and a better team would have punished them for giving the ball away as often as they did. But 3 points is 3 points and that's 61 games unbeaten. recently they've seen off the Zombies, Hibs and the Dons and it might be up to Motherwell to offer a serious challenge as they go for another treble.
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Post by nogbad on Oct 25, 2017 20:51:54 GMT
Meh. Celtic were good, but not great. They didn't have to be, as Aberdeen were utterly hapless. Aside from several of their players not being very good (notably O'Connor, wtf he is), their manager clearly had no ideas about how to change things. Which is pretty much what he's paid to do, I would have thought. Celtic's fans still booing Shay Logan after three years is pretty disgraceful.
On the upside for me, if not much consolation to Aberdeen fans, yet more comedy gold from Govan's finest. A sending-off, a missed penalty and an equaliser for Killie scored by an ex-Orc, and all in injury time! So that's all rather splendid.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Oct 25, 2017 23:18:23 GMT
Willie Miller was purring about Celtic on Radio Scotland. He said it's the best he's seen them.
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Post by WullieFort on Oct 26, 2017 8:09:39 GMT
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Post by nogbad on Oct 26, 2017 11:49:03 GMT
More than a tad OT, but I think you'll both enjoy perhaps the greatest P&B post ever - "Some say that the exploits of Messi and Ronaldo in their respective careers have set an unfair benchmark for other footballers. Rather than marvel at a 30 goals a season player, we now say 'Aye but Messi got 60'. We've become desensitised to fantastic achievements because the bar has been set so high by two extraordinary individuals. You always think they've peaked but just keep delivering consistently. In terms of the banter, Rangers are Messi and Ronaldo rolled into one. It's almost dulled the senses to laughing at any other type of footballing failure. 6 years now. 6 fucking years. Every single time you think that they've peaked. With the level of resources at their disposal, they can't sustain this level of ineptitude for much longer and they will turn the tables. And yet it continues. It's actually massively impressive to have such huge resources with which to get yourself out of these situations yet continue to be a fucking screaming basketcase and smashing head first into crisis after crisis for well over half a decade and showing no signs of slowing. So I suppose I doff my cap to Rangers for the relentless pursuit of new ways to entertain. In that regard at least, they really are the people. " Unusually erudite for a St Mirren fan.  |
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