[Matchday] Celtic v Aberdeen Wednesday 17th February 6PM Celtic TV

Only thing is we had the excuse at home v Livingston and Hibs when we had to field a second team but against St Mirren an tonight v Aberdeen that minus Forrest and julien was not far off our best starting 11 and we deservedly lost at home to st Mirren and were under the cosh to a poor Aberdeen side who haven’t scored in last 6 games for last 25 minutes

 

That 2nd half was hard to watch and, once again, we were blowing out our arses about the 70 minute mark. Clinging on at the end to an Aberdeen side who are gash just shows where we are at the moment. Ajeti, Taylor, Klimala and Christie were shocking and Eddy could have played all night and not scored. We really need a complete rebuilding job and should have had a manager in now to begin that process

 

It was shocking mate, and * was that all about, a 5ft 6 left back marking a 6 ft 4 inch defender on corner s and set pieces, was almost comical seeing the 2 of them standing next to each other, could tell by our Taylor s face that he didn’t fancy it

 

Sure it wasn't 10 points with 8 to go? Seven points behind going into the nakamura screamer game after we beat motherwell the game before.

 

A mind the 2-1 Motherwell at fir park game when Samara scored the winner was after we’d beat the Huns twice, just before the Utd game , I’m sure we lost 1-0 to Motherwell at Celtic park a few weeks before when they only had 10 men, a thought that put us 11 behind them or maybe was 8 and they had a game in hand

haha as you say mate never going to happen this year, even if they dropped 15 points this season, we won’t win all our remaining games anyway

 

Scraped by in the end against an Aberdeen team that can't buy a goal. They were so open first half it was unreal and we still created very little. Second half was garbage. We never really got going at all. Ajeti would have been as well watching the game with me in the house, and Klimala will never be good enough as long as his * points down the way. Edouard has become the most frustrating player in the team by constantly taking too many touches and running into trouble before being crowded out and losing possession. Apart from all that, the big plus is Welsh. Him and Ajer look very good together, and Kenny if we can get him back next season would be an asset. Another win but the football is torture in all honesty.

 

I only watched the first half. I thought we were really good to watch as well. Aye. Fitba. Its a game ah two hawfs!

 

35 mins of noteworthy football out of 90min. In that time, we controlled the ball and had Aberdeen chasing. Greg Taylor had Kennedy on the back foot. Making runs, going to the byline and combining well.

A 2nd half where we allowed ourselves to be knocked off control of the game by the most basic way of playing the game. Dragged into a game of leather it long and dragged into a game of pishy fouls, not sure what happened to Alan Muir at halftime.

Sloppy passing. Relatively few combinations between players. Midfield bypassed and played into the hands of Aberdeen. And in the end, while we defend the set pieces and the balls into the box better than we have done. We should never have gotten ourselves into that position in the first place. When you see a double substitution where Turnbull and Eddie are taken off. What a green light that was for Aberdeen to push even more bodies forward.

Aberdeen are still playing the most basic of football styles. You know what your going to get from them. You know it a team full of big lumps.

5 wins on the trot, but yet again, a very uninspiring and inconsistent performance. Results are improving but the quality is badly missing.

 

It was like the players were at it for half an hour and then decided enough done for one night, lets just * around for remainder of game, hold what we have.
And our fitness just seems to be way off.

 

That's another area of Lennon's incompetence as a manager that doesn't get enough focus. Our fitness levels are totally unacceptable - even Deila commented on how shocked he was by the players diet when he came in.

Whatever you think of Rodgers, he and his backroom staff are totally professional. Our squad was super fit when they were here - we were going strong after 70 mins when other teams were knackered. Now its the other way around.

Its another example of his unprofessionalism - little interest in tactics and not being bothered what the players eat or if they have a couple of pints.

 

It was very telling that Ntcham wasn’t deemed fit enough to play by Marseille when he first arrived.

 

My comments on this game would be the same as the last one.

Classic Lennyball. This is about the best I would expect from one of his teams. It’s unbelievably similar to his first time around. If you’re challenging for the league or top then everyone just looks at the result and that’s fine, but really it’s poor, unprofessional and outdated football.

People forget how miserable it was under Lennon first time round. Match to match we were * to watch with a big European result every now and again balanced out by getting knocked out a cup by Morton, Ross County, St. Mirren etc.

We’re firmly back in 2010, the level our board wants us to accept.

 

Yet, Lennon is very reluctant to play Griffiths, who is quite unfit. Although, it might be another issue that's causing this.

 

Missed last nights game but reading the comments in here, it seems I Didni miss much!!
More of the same old * then?


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Totally Slater. How anyone can't see that Taylor hasn't the height to man mark someone at corners/crosses etc is just poor management. The same applied to Frimpong when he was here. Opposition teams used to fire long diagonal balls towards the RB area knowing that they were up against another wee guy.

 

Don't then

 

Cheers Boss. Thanks for your approval...