Ancelotti "Celts will Qualify "

Nice to hear the European Champions manager saying he thinks we will qualify in the papers today . Surely that must give the players a bit of confidence hearing somebody of Carletto's calibre saying that

 

Italian managers like Scotland. This and before Trappatoni was praising Scotland. Good on him. Should fire up the players.

 

Yeah i think they respect the way our teams can defend because we usually defend well they always say . And of course the Italians invented Catenacio

 

yes he should be right celtic are the better team but the players need to keep their confedence and Gordon needs to play the best players no hartley, pressleys, gravesens, jarosiks or expecally Zurawski.

 

Yes i dont think Pressley will play in Moscow . Neither will Kennedy with his dodgy knee . Bobo might get a recall for this game i think .

 

It was Helenio Herrera who invented Catenacio and he was Argentinian

 

Yes but he put those plans into an Italian side in Inter Milan

 

hope he,s right but if we do our bit we should be ok.

 

Jarosik won't play in the games against Spartak as he wants to leave.

Team for Spartak game in Moscow

M.Brown
Mendy,McManus,O'Dea,Naylor
Naka,S.Brown,Donati,Sno,Maloney
Skippy or JVOH

Spartak 2 Celtic FC 2
MaloneySkippy

Celtic 2 Spartak 0
Maloney,Skoosh

Celtic quailfy 4-2 on Agg

 

I can see us losing 2-1 over there which in European competiton is a good score . CP will be bouncing for the 2nd leg because EVERYBODY knows the importance of the match . I think that will inspire us to a terrific night and a memorable night and it will be 2-0 at CP

 

On paper we're the better team. No doubt we all think the job will be done at Euro fortress CP. Long as Celtic take an away goal back to CP.

 

I wouldnt say were the better team on paper

They have a polish keeper who has saved 13 penalties
Mozart , Maxim Kalinichenko , Pavluchenko , Radoslav Kovac ( a Czech International who inter were trying to sign ) and Martin Jiranek who we tried to sign but he will miss both legs

On paper both teams are evenly matched IMO

 

we've got the holy goaly
the most expencive transfer between scottish clubs, scott brown, jvoh who has scored loads of cl goals, nakamura

they'll be just as scared of us as we are of them imo

 

If we manage at WORST to lose by just 1 goal away then i thinkw e will win overall as at home we should win by 1 0r 2 more

 

i don't think we'll get through this tie if i'm being honest.

 

Yes thats my point , both teams are very evenly matched

 

We need to win in Moscow and end this away day hoodoo that we have in Europe. It's a hard tie and IF we get through then the team and us fans should be confident that we can do some damage in the group stage!

 

Y is mendy in our team? We aint signed him, only been minorly linked with him

 

We have been linked with him, its been in the papers

 

think we would have brought in somone by now if they were in the plans for next week ..Back on topic though its nice to get the reognition from a great coach in Ancelotti