[Matchday] [Scottish Cup] Celtic v Hun Scum [Sky Sports - 15/04/18 - 14:30 GMT)

Bain
Lustig Simunovic Ajer Tierney
Armstrong Brown
Rogic
Sinclair Dembele Forrest

A bit harsh on ntcham but i think armstrongs drive in this game will make a difference, roberts and musonda to come on after 50 minutes.

 

If Murty has any brains he will approach this game the same way he approached the two games at Parkhead - cautiously. If he bottles up the centre of the pitch and sets out to frustrate us, it will almost certainly work because of how pish we are at the moment. It still might not be enough for them to win the game but what it could do is keep them in the game until late on and at that point nerves will start to jangle on our side.

If he takes the approach of 'it's a cup tie, let's go for it' then I think we'll take them with a bit to spare.

 

Is this the cup game?

 

Naw. We haven't played many cup semi-finals recently.

 

Aye.

 

Naw

 

Canny wait till smash the huns day

 

This is their season in one game win and they are hero's with the momentum to possibly win their 1st major trophy lose it and their season is finished apart from the game at paradise against us. Make no mistake they will be up for this and Madden will be there to assist them so it will need to be a top performance from our guys and we can't give them the chances we did at Ibrox

 

Just need to keep calm and match their tempo for the first 20 mins. They will be looking for a quick goal to keep the energy levels up. Over the 90mins we will have too much for them.

 

Hopefully our players will shake theirselves out of the slumber we have been in the last couple of months .
We will need to be on the front foot to blow the vermon away and hopefully the last game at the asbestos dome should remind the players that the vermon have been very slowly improving while we have regressed of late . Hopefully 3-0 for the hoops .

 

However * we've been, this game I'm no fussed about for the simple reason I know the player's will be up for it......it doesn't need saying..

The 2 game's they've taken anything from us have been at Celtic Park after us playing a * load of game's, Europeans included and being well ahead in the league and more than likely, taken them lightly..

Both those game's under Murty at Celtic Park they've came to us thinking they were getting battered after poor domestic results..

They can't just sit in at Hampden. 1, I don't think they have the personnel to do it as they are severely weak at the back and central midfield as well as particularly slow at centre half. 2, their support will get on them if they just sit in and try and counter..

As I say. We've practically a full squad to choose from bar 1 or 2 and every big domestic game where something has been on the line....we've came through very well..

I have a feeling we'll be on top of them early and will get that breakthrough. Once we do score first half....they'll crumble..

If we go behind against them, I expect or know we're likely to turn it around. If we score first then absolutely no one including them would be confident of overturning a losing deficit..

A full week to focus and get this on. Thank * we've got a big semi against these coming. After our recent displays I feel we need something to really get our teeth in to..

Also if we've been coasting through and reserving ourselves for hammering this mob on way to a treble then I'll take back all fairly bit of my critiscm of late..

 

I would play Roberts,no matter how many players are on him he can find a way past

 

Bain

Lustig Ajer Boyata Tierney

Ntcham Brown McGregor

Roberts Dembele Sinclair

Expect Armstrong to start though

 

Roberts won't start..

Good option off the bench once they tire or have to go for it though..

Although he was threatening today, he's still well off the pace for his best as he's been out ages so I don't think he's right to start from the off..

 

Bain

Helustig Ajer Hendry

Forrest Brown McGregor Tierney

Rogic

Dembele Griffiths​

 

28th is the 2nd match of the after split matches.

 

I'm winding you up mate.

 

Aye it is!!

 

Worse teams than sevco have sat in against us and got the results that they wanted. Even today with 80% possession we found it hard to break down a very very poor Hamilton side