[Official TC Thread] Inverness v Celtic Sunday 15:00 on Bt

I know that watching the game there and on the telly are two totally different things but actually being there yesterday I agree with anyone saying it's some of the best stuff we've produced all season! The little interplay between big Tam, McGregor and Sinclair was magic at times and on another day Moussa would've got one or two. KT was a class act as per and was really hoping he'd have hit the net. As for their two goals, as much as I am a critic of DDV, the first was some strike and at the ground it did look unstoppable (maybe different on TV) and couldn't really make out their second from the other end but had their keeper not had the game of his life we'd have routed them.

The people saying "shocking" "disgraceful" etc. need to get a grip

 

Only watched the last 15mins of yesterday's game but somehow I just knew Inverness were going to equalise. The game just had that feeling about it, I can't really explain why.

A draw up there isn't the end of the world anyway as they've always been a bit of a bogey team for us.

 

Was just a blip but no way should we have dropped points there!! Keeper had a few great saves but should still have put it to bed. Need to be more clinical up top...paddy cut in from the right at 2-1 and went in on goal when he should have squared. Also magregor continues to frustrate me...his final ball is sloppy a lot and couldn't he have released before ball got stuck under his feet when he chipped. These came back to haunt!

Defence is still a wee worry as well.....i think it's concentration levels..i just knew they would throw it into box with their height near the end. KT gave original and needless (imo) foul away. That led to corner and we know what happened with the 2nd phase of that. It was a long week so maybe cut them slack there.

Still a 'work-in-progress' and happy so far in the time they've had!!

ps- DDV is no better than Gordon from what i've seen and a change must be imminent if he doesn't improve. Said a few days ago i think Gordon's had a bit of a raw deal.

 

It should be a concern when we need to score 3 goals to beat Inverness though. We are conceding far too many.

 

The thing that worries me is we're not even conceding decent goals most of the time. Look through CL qualifying and the league nearly all the goals we concede are from sloppy play, crosses or just total * ups. We're scoring enough that it doesn't really matter just now but the players seem to think it's job done before it is when we're cruising and just stop concentrating.

 

Almost spat my coffee over my computer!

 

Because their keeper pulled off umpteen good saves, we hit the bar twoce and missed a coule sitters.

 

Totally mate Pretty much the reason many of us thought they'd score. Their keeper gave them a lift, a bit of belief, and we maybe thought, "it's not our day". Mentally they were strong and deserve great credit for that draw.

 

I don't think anyone is concerned about the number of chances we created, but we shouldn't need to score three goals to beat Inverness. We can't rely on our attackers to get us over the line in every game. In the league it's not an issue because over the course of the season we will be fine, but in one off cup games and in Europe when it's tight, the defence has to improve.

 

Arguably the defence has been weakened with the two signings of De Vries and Gamboa, and their inclusion in the team.

 

I've never wanted two players to succeed as much as De Vries and Gamboa.

I mean I want all players to succeed, surely we all want that because it means good things for our club but those two..? Man that would be so sweet.

 

Aye coz we were keeping plenty of clean sheets with Gordon and Janko in it

 

I think you're bang on here and it's in Europe where we'll get found out if we keep up with these lapses of concentration. I mentioned KT's foul near the end which brought on that spell of pressure leading to the corner. I'm not getting at the boy.....he was my MOM with Rogic.

The huns goal again was right after we scored and right before HT when we should have been more alert. I'm sure from memory that one of the goals in the home tie against the Israelis was giving away possession cheaply.

Like i said, we're doing ok, just need to keep these to a minimum. Life will be hard enough, especially in CL, without giving away cheap goals. If we can do that i think we can get a result against anyone at home.

Believe!!

 

Some people need to calm the * down with their criticism of those two.

 

I said that about Gordon! :icon_mrgreen:

Seriously though, i'm not for punting DDV out yet but i think he'll need to improve. There are question marks??

Gamboa will be fine domestically...actually thought he did ok yesterday. Europe...well time will tell.

 

Battered them. We were unlucky. As long as we're creating as many chances as we did on Sunday, then we'll win the league by March

We just can't keep a clean sheet man.