CarlisleReiver
Well-known member
I'm gutted with the result tonight bhoys and girls but I'm not surprised.
I have all faith in NL and the squad however the result is not a surprise, here is our knock out results against top teams:
Copenhagen 1 - 1 then Celtic 1 - 3 Copenhagen (2-4 agg)
CFR Cluj 1 - 1 Celtic then Celtic 3 - 4 CFR Cluj (4-5 agg)
Celtic 0 - 2 Valencia then Valencia 1 - 0 Celtic (0-3 agg)
Celtic 1 - 0 Zenit then Zenit 3 - 0 Celtic (1-3 agg)
Goal for 7 Goals against 15
Goals for at home: 5
Goal for away: 2
Goals against at home: 9
Goals against away: 6
These aren't even the best teams in Europe (if it was a group stage it would be 5 points)! I think I get carried away, beating everyone in Scotland but really to a man, we don't have what it takes to beat the best in Europe.
They certainly know how to play us, collectively we fail as a team as our individuals aren't good enough collectively. I hear a lot of fans throwing some of our players under the bus tonight, this doesn't help either. When you play a system that is so strong domestically how can you expect for it to work when you have to change it in Europe.
No one in Europe is scared of playing us anymore and haven't done so for a long long time. However, this doesn't mean that we give up and don't want to compete, I'm just not sure how we get there, with the players we have (lets not go we need to replace him, and him and this shows that it doesn't work either)?
To start, goals against at home is a worry, are we too open, too gunho?
I have all faith in NL and the squad however the result is not a surprise, here is our knock out results against top teams:
Copenhagen 1 - 1 then Celtic 1 - 3 Copenhagen (2-4 agg)
CFR Cluj 1 - 1 Celtic then Celtic 3 - 4 CFR Cluj (4-5 agg)
Celtic 0 - 2 Valencia then Valencia 1 - 0 Celtic (0-3 agg)
Celtic 1 - 0 Zenit then Zenit 3 - 0 Celtic (1-3 agg)
Goal for 7 Goals against 15
Goals for at home: 5
Goal for away: 2
Goals against at home: 9
Goals against away: 6
These aren't even the best teams in Europe (if it was a group stage it would be 5 points)! I think I get carried away, beating everyone in Scotland but really to a man, we don't have what it takes to beat the best in Europe.
They certainly know how to play us, collectively we fail as a team as our individuals aren't good enough collectively. I hear a lot of fans throwing some of our players under the bus tonight, this doesn't help either. When you play a system that is so strong domestically how can you expect for it to work when you have to change it in Europe.
No one in Europe is scared of playing us anymore and haven't done so for a long long time. However, this doesn't mean that we give up and don't want to compete, I'm just not sure how we get there, with the players we have (lets not go we need to replace him, and him and this shows that it doesn't work either)?
To start, goals against at home is a worry, are we too open, too gunho?
