Although Philips started against Dundee and played for the first 45, it makes me wonder is that's enough for Rodgers to start him in this game?
Lagerbeilke has game time minutes under his belt and before he arrived so just for that reason with my amateur managers hat on I'm thinking Lagerbeilke gets the nod.
My selections have been quite a bit off going back to Ange though I wasn't alone there he kept us all guessing.
I really hope that Reo starts this game as loathe as I am to slate any Celtic players Turnbull just doesn't bring what Reo does to the game.
In Scotland Turnbull is an asset to the squad but that's in Scotland.
The fact he's fit and still isn't called up for Scotland as a squad member says something as well, though granted Scotland have a high quality midfield right now so have Celtic.
Perhaps I'm overly critical of Turnbull but he frustrates me and seeing him in the flesh v Dundee only galvanised my opinion. Give him a chance to shoot he'll put it away, great finisher from distance but so is Reo. It's his workrate that concerns me and the performances he put in that game just wasn't of the same standard as Reo when he came on. Sure he buried the penalty expertly but we expect that anyway, no passengers for this game it's going to be all hands on deck and Reo just has that special something that sets him apart.
I'd love nothing more than Turnbull to hush me up.
Watching wee Kyogo on Saturday ( tanget alert) from a good seat above the green brigade and I have to say I was blown away by his little flicks and touches , techniques superb his control of the ball, there's so much more to his game than scoring goals if he's on or off the ball, also the size of the wee mhan is unreal compared with the big burly defenders he's facing.
Can't see Celtic go 2 up front
With the players we have available, I'd be going 3-5-2 just now in Europe. Phillips is slow, Scales is better suited to a back 3. We can flood the midfield with extra players, but also have Johnston & Taylor (playing in his preferred inverted full back role) drop back to a back 5 when we are under severe pressure. It will be different once CCV returns and then I'd go either 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. I know Brendan won't do this as he has his philosophy. My preferred starting line up:
Hart
Lagerbielke Phillips Scales
Johnston O'Riley Mcgregor Hatate Taylor
Kyogo Maeda
Yang, Oh & Palma would be my planned subs, with any other changes (Bernardo?) as needed.
Although Philips started against Dundee and played for the first 45, it makes me wonder is that's enough for Rodgers to start him in a game of this significance?
Lagerbeilke has game time minutes under his belt and before he arrived so just for that reason with my amateur managers hat on I'm thinking Lagerbeilke gets the nod.
My selections have been quite a bit off going back to Ange though I wasn't alone there he kept us all guessing.
I really hope that Reo starts this game as loathe as I am to slate any Celtic players Turnbull just doesn't bring what Reo does to the game.
Passes that take 3-4 opposition out of the game , off the ball dummy runs etc.
Perhaps he's struggling to adapt to the different managers & systems but he just doesn't appear to be the same hungry player he was imo.
In Scotland Turnbull is an asset to the squad but that's in Scotland.
The fact he's fit and still isn't called up for Scotland as a squad member says something as well, though granted Scotland have a high quality midfield right now so have Celtic, maybe I'm reading too much into that.
Perhaps I'm overly critical of Turnbull but he frustrates me and seeing him in the flesh v Dundee only galvanised my opinion. I realise we are not playing " we never stop" Ange style anymore but he needs to be more mobile and cover more ground.
Give him a chance to shoot he'll put it away, great finisher from distance but so is Reo. It's his workrate that concerns me and the performances he put in that game just wasn't of the same standard as Reo when he came on. Sure he buried the penalty expertly but we expect that anyway, no passengers for this game it's going to be all hands on deck and Reo just has that special something that sets him apart.
Watching wee Kyogo on Saturday ( tanget alert) from a good seat right above the green brigade and I have to say I was blown away by his little flicks and touches , techniques' superb his control of the ball, there's so much more to his game than scoring goals on or off the ball, also the size of the wee mhan is unreal compared with the big burly defenders he's facing its very noticeable in the flesh.
Can't see Celtic go 2 up front away in Europe, i think be, 4-3-2-1
back 4; Taylor Johnston Scales Lagerbeilke
MF; McGregor, Oriley, Hatate,
Maeda and Yang
Kyogo
Well this is the side I think but there's a reason my Celtic managerial career is limited to FIFA 18 ( need to start dropping wee hints my games an old one , crimbo coming up n that
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Subs used, Ralston, Phillips, Bernardo, Palma and Oh though because of his experience I wouldn't rule out seeing Forrest if he's showing in training what we all know he's got then he is a big game player who's scored big goals in Europe for us before.
Rodgers will likely have a surprise in store for the team.
Haven't seen enough from our new bhoys for me to say Holm or Bernardo, Palma should start ahead of the others hopefully they're all tearing it up at Lennoxtown and Rodgers will unleash them on an unsuspecting over confident Feyenoord and Dutch media ( we aren't sevco btw if any one from the neverlands is looking in, we're the champions).
What I see though is that we're not far away from returning to full strength, that's encouraging from even right up to ibrokes game.
3/1 the draw and 4/1 the win for Celtic tells me the bookies don't really know about this Celtic side either, 8/15 Feyenoord to win is no surprise given their form but it should be remembered they're not ' top of the table' and their recent high scoring wins were against their equivalent of our Ross County's and Dundee's.
The Dutch arrogance can hopefully be their undoing, they underestimated sevco last year but not this year.
Sevco could've beaten them in Glasgow.
Actually have a lot more thoughts on all this but I've got to go to the shop yeez are aff the hook just half a tome the noo
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