Europa League:- Celtic FC vs FC Sion

how did my bhoy play \0/ tonight never seen or heard the game. chin up

 

the last time i felt the way i am now, following a 1st leg home game in europe was dynamo moscow, and then look what happened in the 2nd leg. i think celtic were very poor tonight, but i believe they will get the finger out and get a win next week, maybe with one or two new faces as well.

 

so are we still a million miles off being a side? thoughts?

 

Im actually sick of people blaming Sammy. Its a disgrace.

He was one of the better players tonight in my opinion.

 

Mate to be honest if he wasnt highly frustrating and not good enough for us nobody would use him as a scapegoat. Scapegoats always bring it upon themself.

 

I personally thought Stokes and Commons were * atrocious. Even my favourite player Wilson was bad.

I just think people dislike Sammy. Unless he has a 10 out of 10 performance people are on his back.

 

The whole team were a joke last night. No shape and we only have ourselves to blame. Personally a thought samaras was wasteful. Some of our better performers were wasteful aswell. Sion got what they came for.

 

After everything that happened last season with our manager surely it's * obvious that's not true.

Agreed, if we don't win he's the first person certain people blame, even if he was our best player in the game. Like the first OF game last season, he was the only one trying anything and still got abuse.

 

Have to disagree with you for once bud.
Sammy was lazy and looked like he couldn't give a flying * about the jersey he was wearing or the people who were watching him play. Hope he never gets near the first team again but that obviously isn't going to happen

 

I mean players in terms of ability mate. Obviously thats different.

 

His body language admittedly doesn't help him at times. But I feel that its unfair for people to single him out from the rest of the crap that was on display last night. It happens constantly.

 

Samaras was hardly helped out by his strike partner Stokes, who we already know doesn't like to show up in big games. He's just not a big game player.

 

how can you say that i'd say our biggest games are old firms and he's never been given a chance

 

I can also guarantee Stokes will not feature in the away tie. This game reminds me of dinamo moscow, Samaras to score the winner. Again.

 

The thing is though, all of the other players that started tonight merited a place in the team from recent form, with the exception of Cha.

Samaras very rarely plays well, at a guess I'd say his performances are passable as 'decent' or 'ok' about 20-25% of the time and 'good' 5% of the time. Which leaves the other 70-75% of his performances in the category of 'complete and utter *'.

When the team plays well and gets a good result with Samaras in the team the general vibe is still 'we played well tonight but Samaras shouldn't have played' it leaves the impression that Samaras is being unfairly singled out as the bad performer when really the stick he gets from the fans is completely merited.

It baffles me that Lennon still feels the need to play him.

 

+1

He started 1 big game last season - the first old firm game. He played *. Why? Because he was on the wing.

 

He was hardly helped because for some bizarre reason Lennon shunted Stokes, our form striker, out wide.

 

His strike partner? Stokes was playing on the wing. Samaras was a lone striker.

 

So when Stokes has another one of those nightmarish games it's Lennys fault. But when Celtic have a mare it's all Samaras' fault? Get a grip.

 

Nobody's saying it was Sammy's fault today. It was Lenny's fault, he got his tactics wrong.