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"We have appointed a special manager and we are sure he can bring some special times to Celtic."
Team Selection
Gordon Lustig Sviatchenko Toure Simunovic Tierney Forrest Brown Bitton Sinclair Dembele
And the rest...
Get in the them with our 12th man anything is possible we've seen it before against the so called heavyweights coy big.
Bring them on
0-3...Think we'll be on the receiving end of a scheme booting. Regardless of who starts between DDV and Gordon.
De Bruyne done his hamstring today. Looks like he is out for next week. Good news for us.
Not liking this. He has them very fit, if we don't match their pressing we're offed.
Can't wait to see Tierney go right through Sterling
First goal will be crucial. If we can get it you never know...Expecting a pumping though
A doddle
Would love to do this shower of money laden nobodies.
We need to press and harry them the way Atletico Madrid unsettle Barca teams. If we sit off the way we did against Barcelona then we'll get our arses tanned again
2-2 thriller
It's great to be back in the CL but again we're right up against it on Wednesday. No point in getting all negative so just hope we can do ourselves justice and put up a respectable performance. Our cup finals in this group will be against the Germans.
I'm probably going to regret saying this but I think we will beat them.
FFS - blow the whistle now ref
We'll be doing incredibly well to get anything out of the game. The gulf in class - from Boyd to Aguero - is just too much for us to bridge...Make them work for it though and who knows.
Pfft. Boyd's twice the player Aguero is. Maybe even three times the player. If we can cope with him, we can cope with anything.
Absolutely hate city...Everyone needs to be top of their game. Heart says 1-1 but head says 0-2... Anything can happen
When the draw was made, I thought this was one of the games where we could pick up a point. Now, I'm not so sure. Man City look brilliant under Guardiola...We're 9/1 to win this. I can't remember seeing us at that type of price for any home fixture, even the 2-1 victory against Barca.
I hope we play the same formation against City as we do in the spl.Go for it.If we lose at least go down fighting and anyway playing 5 at the back didn't do us any favours in Barcelona.I think city might go into the game over confident and they'll not have experienced an atmosphere as they will on Wednesday.
This is the most pessimistic I've ever felt about a CL game at home. Even if we play as well as we can I fear that we'll get pumped
Celtic, I call on thee to smite the soulless behemoth!
Man City are one hell of a team,their front line was scary today BUT we have faced bigger teams with lesser Celtic teams than our present squad and beat them....Come Ahead!!!
The draw was unkind, any chance of European football after Christmas depends on results at home. They can't even sell out a home game (have much respect for the fans), this is the best opportunity of the three games at home for the fans to be the difference...No fear. Don't think we'll lose and wouldn't take a draw now.
Their attack is fantastic, they will cause us plenty of bother and likely score a few. On the other hand, their central defence is worth asking a few questions of and, with the 'full backs' playing so high and in the channels there is scope to suggest that we can bother them....Celtic 4 Manchester City 1
City seem to be in awesome form just now. In saying that, we've encountered English teams when they've been in top form (Blackburn, Liverpool, Arsenal) and given okay performances. Man city (and our current side) are different proposition from past teams tho
We have proved time and time again that we are capable of beating ANYONE at Celtic Park. If we had big Fraser in goals I would be quietly confident of getting something on Wednesday, can just pray Gordon has a wonderful night.
When we played Barcelona in the Nou Camp a couple of weeks ago I knew we had absolutely no chance of winning. Although I don't expect us to do so on Wednesday I wouldn't say it's impossible. The Celtic Park crowd under the floodlights is a great leveller. Obviously De Bruyne being out is another huge positive for us. We have upset the odds before against the teams mentioned in fatboab's post and you just never know.
I don't think we'll get stuffed like the Barca game. It's going to be a tight game (I think/hope)... Hopefully, it's just one of those nights we're really up for it (backs against the wall) and we produce something incredible.
There's the added aspect that we've got a handful of players with extra incentive for turning it on against Man City...Toure - ex player (and captain), will want to show fans of his old club that he's still got it and isn't playing in Scotland because he can't hack it any more...Sinclair - ex-player, never really made the grade there, is on record as saying he doesn't think Mancini gave him a proper chance in the team...Roberts - on loan playing against his parent club - if he gets game time (probably not merited on recent form) he'll be desperate to catch Guardiola's eye and prove he has a future with Man City...Dembele - shop window opportunity to prove he can do some damage against the top EPL sides...Obviously that could end up going either way for any of those players - could inspire them to the game of their lives, or could see them freeze or have a mad moment that costs us.
Someone's going to beat Man City this year and barring one or two exceptions, it'll raise a few eyebrows...Might as well be the first.
Before the Barca game I thought we should play 5 at the back against City, in both ties. Having seen the shambles we were, with no one having a clue who they were picking up, I've changed my mind...Need to pick up points at home to have any chance of finishing third. We may as well play our natural game and 4-3-3. If we get scudded 2-5 so be it.
They're good, but they ain't anywhere near Barca. A good night for Gordon in goals, no defensive blunders and take our chances - I'm certain we will create quite a few, and we'll get something from this. 2-1 Celtic.
Man City don't have world class players in every position...They have one world class player.
We are gonna pump these wannabes.
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