[Official TC Thread] FC Astana v. Celtic, CL 3rd Qual Rnd 1st Leg, Wed 27th July, 15.00pm ko, Premier Spor

Decent performance, defensively looked very shaky at times but they have real pace in the wide areas which caused us problems.

You can see Rodgers is far more tactically astute than Deila. Changed it early second half and once Biton came on we began to dominate the ball and made chances.

Thought Roberts played well, but as usual had 3 men on him, we really need to be smarter about taking advantage of that.

Thought it was a fair result overall and that away goal is crucial.

 

delighted with a point considering we dont travel well at all

 

Like Guinness

 

Delighted with that result given the patchwork defence that we had to put out.

Toure, Ajer, Boyata, Simunovic and Sviatchenko have all still got their parts to play this season and all of them were missing today.

 

Check the CL qualifying thread.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_UEFA_Champions_League

 

:icon_mrgreen:

 

Celtic penalty claim
https://streamable.com/lc50

Gordon save
https://streamable.com/ank0

1-1 Griffiths
https://streamable.com/o91x
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Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers now speaking to the media: "It was an outstanding result for us.


BR: "The resilience and strength mentally we’ve built up came into effect.


BR: "We were disappointed with the goal but showed wonderful mentality to keep fighting.


BR: "Restricted their chances and scored a fantastic goal.


BR: "Only half-time but very big result for us.


BR: "Huge amount of credit to the players. Opinion was we’d do well to come back with anything other than a loss.


BR: "Got more control of the game and a wonderful goal. We know the significance of that.


BR: "Not getting too carried away and we have another game against a good side.


BR on Eoghan O'Connell: "Thought he was outstanding as a young player coming into that environment. Proud of him and the young players.


BR: "Two 19 year olds in Roberts and Tierney, they kept fighting. Eoghan’s 20, others young, and showing ability to fight.

 

legia

ludogrets

bate

kobenhavn

zagreb

 

Are all Kazakh teams long throw specialists aye?

 

They never did replay that penalty claim the sneaky Kazaks.Certainly looked a stonewaller.coming up on Sky news in a bit.

 

Didn't know they had qualified yet

 

https://streamable.com/lc50

 

Any of these, no??

 

Well depends these are the top seeded teams that are likely to qualify, http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedcl2016.html

 

Cheers
Hard to say really,looks like he was taken down though.

 

no we can only face 1 of 5 teams, because we are in the champions route...... http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedcl2016.html

if bate, legia, ludogrets,zagreb, kobenhavn all get through and we get through it will deffo be 1 of the 5 we face to get into it

 

From my desk at work it looked a stone waller, but a was watcvhing it on my phone, deffo looked like he took the man but

 

Ah nice one, cheers man

Seen a few of you's say this now, thanks folks.

 

Likely one of the following:
Viktoria Plzeň 0-0 Qarabag (Can't get Plzen, only Qarabag if they win)
Ludogorets Razgrad 2-2 Crvena Zvezda
Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 Dinamo Tbilisi
BATE Borisov 1-0 Dundalk
Trenčín - Legia Warszawa (Legia will ne seeded if two seeded teams get beat i.e, APOEL, Salzburg and Plzen)
Rosenborg - APOEL (Can't get APOEL, only Rosenborg if they beat APOEL)
Astra Giurgiu - FC København