St Pauli V Celtic - Post Match Analysis

I know it was only a friendly, but worth discussing all the same

Only saw the 1st half so hard for me to comment, haven't seen the goals either.

 

Boring *.

Great McCourt goal as per usuall.

St. Pauli are going straight back down if thats there team next year.

 

Only saw the last 20 minutes so can much about the game ,what i did see wasnt a friendly though and a 2-0 away from home you would take everyday ,looked to me it was a strong Celtic team out there.

 

PMFA great goal

 

Boring match but McCourt's goal was a belter,thought we dominated second half.I expected St Pauli to be better than they were.

 

anyone got the goals up ?

 

Same. Looked as good as Falkirk or someone like that. Should have won 3-0 if that goal by McGowan rightfully stood.

 

Zaluska - 7 - Done well with the high balls in the box.
Hinkel - 8 - Played superb, looks sharp.
Thompson - 7 - Solid at headers.
Wilson - 7 - Not bad.
Caddis - 7 - Not bad.
McCourt - 8 - Great first 20 mins, great goal.
Brown - 8 MOTM imo.
Crosas -6 - Very poor.
Fortune - 8 - Great 2nd half, nice assist.
McGowan - 7 - Not bad.
Rasmussen - 7 - Not bad, nice finish.


Lennon - 8 - gave the young boys a run out, played great 2nd half.

 

celtic finish 2009/10 with victory against st pauli

Laura Brannan
Celtic headed into the summer break on the back of a comfortable 2-0 victory against St Pauli in Hamburg.

Second half goals from Paddy McCourt and Morten Rasmussen were enough to dismiss the newly promoted Bundesliga side in a match which saw Callum Bagshaw make his first team debut.

Neil Lennon handed starting places to McCourt, Rasmussen, Marc Crosas, Paul McGowan and Paul Caddis as he made several changes from the side which closed the season against Hearts last week.

Celtic’s affinity with St Pauli ranges back to the 1990s and the match was played in good spirit with an electric atmosphere inside the Millerntor Stadium.

The home side made an early substitution, taking off their keeper who is leaving in the summer, giving him the chance to say farewell to the St Pauli support. But the change made little difference as the opening spell fizzled out with little goal-mouth action.

The match sparked into life just before the half hour mark with St Pauli coming inches away from taking the lead. Florian Bruns got his head on the end of a free kick but directed it low, just past Zaluska’s right post.

And the shots began to fly in after that, with Richard Sukuta-Pasu then having an effort punched away when he unleashed a powerful right-footed effort from outside the box.

Only minutes later, substitute keeper Benedikt Pliquett was brought into the action, forcing away a low Crosas shot as Celtic pushed deeper into the St Pauli half.

When Scott Brown was taken down at the edge of the box Rasmussen picked up the loose ball and should have handed Celtic the lead with a top-corner effort, but his 38th minute strike failed to trouble the goalie and he watched as it flew over the bar.

The end to end chances continued when Crosas came close again, this time low at the keeper’s right post. And just seconds later, Sukuta-Pasu was sent one on one with Zaluska, leaving the outstretched Celtic keeper to clear the ball with his foot.

Surprisingly the sides went into the break goal-less after a frantic close to the first half but came back out with a similar fighting spirit.

Josh Thompson’s header cracked off the bar after Crosas had swung in Celtic’s third corner in just five minutes but the visitors didn’t have long to wait for the opener.

They capped off a good spell of pressure on the hour mark when McCourt made a blistering run down the left flank, beating four players and converting a low effort into the far corner of the net.

And the Derry midfielder had a good chance to double his tally, and Celtic’s lead, seven minutes later when he drilled another low range effort through the St Pauli defence, but this time Pliquett managed to touch it behind.

Zaluska had to be replaced after 70 minutes following a high kick from Takyi which saw his studs unnecessarily dig into his chest. His replacement, Dominic Cervi, who was making his second first team appearance in the club’s second consecutive friendly, was brought into the action just six minutes later.

Takyi was the key man again as he came close to netting the equaliser, but his powerful shot skimmed just past Cervi’s far post.

Celtic rounded off the game with a second goal on 82 minutes, when Rasmussen made a delightful turn away from his marker and unleashed a left-footed shot into the far corner of Pliquett’s goal.

The two second half solo efforts from McCourt and Rasmussen were enough to seal the win as Celtic head into the summer break high on confidence on the back of another victory.

 

Nice affair. Was surpised at how comfortable we appeared. Though most threats to us came from little concentration blips from our own players that may have looked dangerous for a split second, but were most certainly not capitalised upon.

 

*, there season only finished last week.

 

Great run by Mcourt and good turn by Ras for the second!

Brown was motm for me but had some balls to square up to that big guy

 

they made about 14 subs very hard to do anything in a game when that happins,if you notice lennon done it after we got 2nd goal think he was dien for the win

 

boring typical friendly.....well, i wouldnt say friendly after some of those tackles that went in, that guy could have killed Zaluska,!!!!

great goal from McCourt, Good finish from Rasmussen.

nothing else to say....except, class crowd

 

Off topic ,but a quickie .as you do .:icon_mrgreen: Did St Pauli get promoted ?. back on topic i seen Zulaska sitting on the bench with an icepack on his chest of all places ,why.

 

Was a bad miss but looked like the ref gave a free-kick before the ball even reached Rasmussen.. Commentators seemed to think Brown was penalised in the build up (when it was clear Brown was fouled) but I think it was for Rass being off-side from Brown's pass..

bloke studded him in the chest as he went to gather a free-kick swung into our box.. Got booked for it but should have been off..

 

Yes they did Rab

 

finished 2nd and went up
came for a cross and there guys foot was mighty high and caught him a belter on the chest zaluska got up and was willing to return the favour

 

yes they got promoted and he had an icepack on his chest due to a shocking challenge by a saint pauli player!

 

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