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[FONT="]Celtic v Hearts Preview[/FONT]
[FONT="]Celtic will be looking to make amends from Thursday’s disastrous performance in the Europa League with victory over Hearts on Sunday as the bhoys face their next challenge in their hunt to claim back the SPL title.[/FONT]
[FONT="]After the searing heat and humidity of Israel the bhoys will only have one day to prepare for the visit of Hearts, however, Celtic gaffer Tony Mowbray isn’t complaining:[/FONT]
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“If you’ve got international footballers and you play in European competition you have to get on with it. You can’t have it both ways. We’ve got a squad of players and we’ll try and utilise them and get a positive performance at the weekend.”[/FONT]...
No Excuses For Poor Celtic
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2 - 1 Celtic
Bloomfield Stadium
Thursday 17th September 2009
An awful second half performance from Celtic not only cost them a valuable away win against a quite mediocre side but cost the Scottish side the chance to get the club's first ever Europa League campaign off to the best possible start. Celtic looked to be on course for the perfect start after Georgios Samaras volleyed them into a deserved half time lead but Hapoel rallied with late goals from Vucicevic and Lala to secure all the points.
Both sides started the game playing some tentative football as neither wanted to be the ones to concede so early in the game but after 11 minutes the home side very nearly did just that as Vincent Enyeama did well to touch Samaras' well directed header onto the bar from a Shaun Maloney corner. Minutes later it was the home side's turn to give Celtic a scare as Vucicevic managed to get in around the back of Danny Fox but...
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2 - 1 Celtic
Bloomfield Stadium
Thursday 17th September 2009
An awful second half performance from Celtic not only cost them a valuable away win against a quite mediocre side but cost the Scottish side the chance to get the club's first ever Europa League campaign off to the best possible start. Celtic looked to be on course for the perfect start after Georgios Samaras volleyed them into a deserved half time lead but Hapoel rallied with late goals from Vucicevic and Lala to secure all the points.
Both sides started the game playing some tentative football as neither wanted to be the ones to concede so early in the game but after 11 minutes the home side very nearly did just that as Vincent Enyeama did well to touch Samaras' well directed header onto the bar from a Shaun Maloney corner. Minutes later it was the home side's turn to give Celtic a scare as Vucicevic managed to get in around the back of Danny Fox but...
CELTS LOOK FOR EASTERN PROMISE
Celtic begin their Europa League campaign on Thursday evening with the visit to Israel to take on Hapoel Tel-Aviv, In what will be only the second competitive fixture between the two sides. Hapoel provided the opposition in the competitions predecessor, The UEFA Cup back in 1999. A 3-0 aggregate victory for Hoops on that occasion providing a rare moment of European success.
It would be fair to say that things have moved on considerably for both sides during the intervening years. Whilst the Hoops glorious run to Seville in 2003 being the ultimate highlight, Hapoel themselves have shown that the so-called underdog can have it's day, the year previously they used that tag to great effect by beating Chelsea, Lokomotiv Moscow and Parma before coming unstuck against the might of AC Milan.
In...
[FONT="]Not such a good day in Paradise[/FONT]
[FONT="]Celtic and Dundee United played out a one each draw at Celtic Park in controversial circumstances yesterday. A good game from the neutral's perspective but Celtic will be disappointed that they were unable to capitalise on Rangers dropped points earlier in the day. Celtic were without the suspended McGeady and injured Fortuné resulting in a change of formation from the usual 4-4-2 to the surprising 4-5-1/4-3-3 with Maloney and McGinn being asked to support McDonald up front.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dundee United started brightly and surprised the Parkhead faithful by taking the lead in the 6th minute through David Goodwillie. Morgaro Gomis was able to evade the challenge of Gary Caldwell to find Goodwillie at the front post who managed to find some...
Mowbray’s Cadamarteri Threat.
After a frustrating week of Internationals, with Celtic manager Tony Mowbray running an anxious eye over the 13 Celtic players on World Cup duty, the Bhoys return to domestic action this weekend.
Saturday’s encounter at Celtic Park against a revitalised Dundee United outfit will undoubtedly prove a stern test. Arabs manager Craig Levein has built a first team strong in belief, despite injuries to strikers Francisco Sandaza and Jon Daly, and with defensive stalwart Lee Wilkie in absentia for much of the season thus far.
Nevertheless, the inspired...
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