Neil Lennon

Aye, until Simunovic * us, the formation was working.

Very fine margins in these games tbh. On another night we’d have had a lead at half time.

 

the manager made errors with the lineup and formation

think he over complicates things at times in the big games

 

Aye, in Europe you cant afford to miss chances like the one Elyanoussi missed in the first half. It doesnt matter if its Copenhagen or Real Madrid if you miss chances like that in Europe the opposition is very likely to make you pay.

 

Copenhagen are a far cry from RM, I'd say Aberdeen are better than that mob.

 

Yeah, Aberdeen are flying in the Europa league this season to be fair.

 

Right enough, Aberdeen have went their last 29 European games not conceding more than a single goal.

 

He should've started with Frimpong, and probably played Griffiths from the start.

 

Where did I downplay it?

I’m saying it becomes even more important now we’re out of Europe.

But I would rather win a double and progress in Europe than win another treble.

 

For me it’s not just any Cup win, it would be an unbelievable history making win.

Quadruple treble and no one has every won 4 Scottish Cups in a row.

Not saying we shouldn’t have progressed on Thu, but winning the Cup isn’t a confidence boosting consolation price, it’s probably never repeated history.

 

This comment has attracted some ridicule, because it is so extreme; but I think a fair number of us massively underestimated Copenhagen, just as we did with Cluj. Just look at the number of people predicting we'd hammer a team that rarely ships more than 1 goal in Europe.

As someone (I forget who) pointed out after the Cluj game: these expectations can't be based on watching Celtic in Europe.

 

I completely disagree with this. Sorry man but the League is all that matters to me. Even more so now the Huns are out the cup!

I'm now thinking of next season and would be giving Soro and Dembele the cup matches as in the semi final and hopefully final! Give the manager slack!

 

I'm the same, * off at the way we got put out the EL but only really give a * about the league this season. I won't relax until it's in the bag. Bring on the 10IAR season. It will be epic, I'm sure of it.

 

Have to agree with this both the league Cup and Scottish Cup have never meant so much. These are history making days, days I will tell my son about when he gets older. Winning 12 trophies on a trot? It's unheard of. Rangers didn't do it when they spent millions every year in the nineties. We've played fair, paid our taxes and still we win.

 

As I said many times, I live 15km away from Copenhagen, follow scandinavian football, watched many of their games. They are horrible, usually they are around our level but this one of the worst FC Copenhagen teams in many years A much worse team than Cluj. 2 wins out of 10 in Europe, against us and an obscure Lugano from Switzerland. Outmuscled and outfought by Malmö and Red Star who have smaller budgets than them, nevermind us. Many points behind a poor FC Midtjylland which the huns disposed of with ease. Dropped points against the two worst teams of the danish league before playing us. And in the top of that: as if they are not regularly bad enough, they played us in the middle of an injury crisis without what is arguably their two best players, Wind and Fischer.

It was an horrible result, and to be honest, in their right day Aberdeen could indeed have a good chance against them.

 

The line up and formation on Thursday were terrible. I feel he showed them far to much respect and was more scared of losing the game than going out to win . There was absolutely no reason to bring simunovic in and push ajer out to right back. If you want simunovic in the team then ajer or Julien has to make way than ruin the balance of the team. All our play came from middle to left, there was absolutely no width on the right side, frimpong would have had plenty of space and would have got us on the front foot and pushed them back instead of slow sideways balls along the back inviting them onto us. I thought it was clear early on it wouldn't work. Thursday was also the first time I've seen Lennon scared to changing anything, whether that be due to not keen on who was on the bench or just ran out of ideas but it shouldn't take til the 70th min or so to change when your losing, also not taking rogic off earlier cost us massively, he was completely out of steam after the hour. Begs the question of where is soro when ntcham and Christie are missing. Also begs the question when our wide players aren't creating where's the likes of shved, arzani etc. As disappointing as that was I feel Lennon will learn from this and not make the same mistake again, thankfully we have 2/3 trophies in the bag and the 3rd massive favourites and we have done this by playing some excellent football

 

Had a long chat tonight with loads of the lads....eventually we all agreed I was correct and he is the best Celtic manager since Martin O'Neil, surpassed only by Jock and inbetween Maley.

I wasnt a fan at first, but I am a lenny manic and totally believe in Lennism.

LEGEND

 

No it wasn't

 

A lot of words basically the players shat their pants.