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Surely the smart money has to be on Celtic not to loose?

19/5 home win with VC Bet s
13/5 Draw - Betfair

with Celtic's home record in CL I think this is almost as good as free money. 

Ideally we'd go out and pump Barcelona but I dont see that happening, I think the ebst we will get is a 1 - o win or a 0 - 0 draw.

Thoughts?

As for other games I think it will be draw central.  I fancy that Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal will all draw at best.  I'm not too sure about Schalke I thought they would win but one of the boys at work who watches a lot of German football and says they haven't looked too good. 

FFS, neverlearns  ::)

Chelsea to win is my only bet for tonight. 

If you think Barcelona aren't capable of beating Celtic you're crazy.

I'm on a LPool / Chels draw dble and i'm feeling good so far  ......

Nice to see that nice boy Matterazzi get unjustly sent off .. couldn't happen to a nicer bloke

Did I say barca weren't capable of beating Celtic? 

Excellent result for Liverpool.

I would say they are through I cant see Inter scoring 3 against Liverpool. 

Well done scoucers!

lol kinda, you said that the smart money would be on the draw :)

Thanks bandit.. Great night at Anfield again..  ;cupcake;

Great performance by all the players for Liverpool.  Imagine if they'd played like that on Saturday!

Mascherano just gets better and better.  £17M and rising...

Nope.  I said the smart money was on Celtic not to loose the game.  Barcelona are probably the most talented team in the world but based on the record Celtic have at home I think we are massively overpriced in some spots.  The plus side for us is Barcelona haven't being playing that great there away form in particular has been patchy and with a full house at Celtic Park the morra night (hopefully in full voice) I HOPE we can get a positive result. 

I'm not posting my bet for the match in fear of bokking myself ;)

They don't need to. 2-0 would take the game to penalties. Who knows what the score would be 11 V 11

I actually thought they only looked threatening when Crouch came on. Up until that point i couldn't see you scoring. Great result though and hope all the English teams get through.
What do you think Cambiasso would cost and out of interest who do you prefer?

We have a pretty decent record in penalty shootouts.  But I can't see it going to pens.  I'm sure we'll score at their place, and I can't see them scoring 4.

Them going down to 10 men didn't necessarily help us.  We struggle to break teams down that play defensively, and once the old bluenose was given his red, they planted everyone behind the ball and I did think that it'd be tough to score.  Crouch certainly made a difference, and so did Pennant.  The delivery of the ball into the box in the last 20 minutes was far better than it's been for a while. 

It was good to see that the team was patient as well, and didn't get frustrated and panic.


Liverpool v Chelsea in the semis again?


He's an excellent player, but didn't do a lot at all last night. 

I agree that you'll score and go through comfortably but alot of people are making out the tie is over as Inter won't put 3 past you. I was just point out that in 3 weeks time if they go 1 nil up with 20mins to go they only need 1 more to stay alive.

They have to have a shot on goal to score.

The funny thing is that we're better against teams that attack us, rather than having to break down a team that puts 11 (or even 10) men behind the ball.  If they need to score (which they do obviously), then they're going to give us more chances to counter-attack.

The job's certainly not done though.  It's going to be a tough 90 minutes, and we'll have to play as well as last night to make sure we go through.  It's only half-time, and we all know what can happen in second halves... ;D

i cant see how celtic are going to keep this score respectable tonight, defence is shocking. mcgeady nakamura voh are all really lazy at defending and chasing, so by my math its gonna be 3 nil barca, etoo didnt play versus rangers, hes thier main goalscorer, cricket score gtd

Heading up there now for the game, 5 of us traveling from Leeds.

Not seen Celtic play in europe before, I am expecting a good atmosphere!?


ONE TIME!!!

It'll be a great atmosphere. 

YNWA

That'll be the blinkers Fergus.

Beauty  :D

TBF Fhergus says that before every Celtic game in the Champions League & he'll keep saying it until it happens. No matter what happens we won't be embarrassed like Rangers were at home to ordinary Lyon side, now that was funny  rotflmfao.

Acid, atmo should be a bit special tonight especially if we get a result  ;cupcake;

Just about to leave just now... hope can make it through before kickoff!!!!! Scraped it the last 3-4 games feckin M8  ;grr;

oh and lol at fergus  ;envious;

Off subject a bit but will there only be one Scottish team in the Champions League next season?

No there will be two.  The league winners will get a guaranteed spot assuming the CL winners have already qualified through their league position.

 ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn; ;popcorn;

I have to say the ESPN feed of the Celtic game over at Channel Surfing is amazing - great quality and no buffering or dropouts.

agreed

Well, at one point I was looking forward to coming on and asking everyone to form an orderly queue to appologise to Bandit. But class will out and that was one of the best passing performances I've seen at Celtic Park in years (actually since PSG gubbed us in the CWC years ago).

Disappointing though that Barca got goals from our own mistakes, but they took them damn well.

Very good game, very loud! Pity we couldn't hold on for draw or win.


Jeez I am tired and hungover :(

Barca where amazing.  Celtic done us proud.

At least we had a go - Maybe the Rangers fans should take note.

Best of luck to Abaaadeen and Panathanaikos today :)

barca were in third gear, as easy a game they have had all season i think

caldwell is defo celtic class, what a player, his slick pass to ronaldinho for the equaliser was sublime
world class boruc did well keeping the score to single figures
donati was great when he came on, really gave the ball away well, and got an assist for the winner, superb display
samoras did well also, the way he won those throw ins at the half way line were over and above
overall strachan played a blinder, tactics spot on, and the bottom line is only a two goal victory at the nou camp is needed, outstanding.

LMAO you had 3 shots and scored with 2(with only 25% possesion may I add), they scored 3 but coulda had about 10(no exageration)...how is that having a go...and i'm not saying that getting on celtics back-Barca are just an awesome team and its too hard to attack them so I dont think your claim holds much substance because you scored 2 goals with 3 shots.

Lets just face it- yous are better than us at attacking, we're better at defending...simple as!!!

but one thought- (being honest) what score would you rather have this morning? a 3-2 defeat or a 0-0 draw??

this is outlawed in the celtic supporters "how to act in public" handbook

Obviously looking at possiblity of advancing in the competition I'd prefer 0-0 - but at least I know the joy of taking the lead against Barca twice, and got to watch us attempt to take the game to them instead of watching anti-football....

nonsense, your out because you tried to play them at thier game, and they were much better at that than you.
a nil nil at home is quite an amazing result against barca, for a team like rangers

Didn't realise these games were one-legged affairs?  Does that mean Liverpool are already though?   ;yippee;

Sorry Fergus, your blinkers slipped again? What's nonsense? Did we have a go? Yes. Did we score 2? Yes. Did I enjoy the game? Yes.

I didn't say anywhere we were better than Barca - I know we're not, but we took them on & I'd rather do that than try to kill the game. Over the last couple of years the willingness to take on anyone at home has got us through the group stages & achieved some good results and taken some notable scalps.


Agreed, it is.

We were outclassed last night, no shame in that.

Yeah Fergus 0-0 is a great result against Barca, 3 games 7points = UEFA Cup Football.  LMAO!!

Ohhh and whata strike from the Greek boy come on Panathanaikos.

rangers for the quadruple????

we had a go in the first half. barca simply wouldnt let us have a go in the 2nd half and totally outplayed us. Still proud of celtic tho. no shame in that result. lol at GS Davie Provan asked if he fancied celtic's chances in the nou camp.... he replied, ive worked hard to get my house so i certainly wouldnt put it on us beating barca!!!!