Team V Celtic - The Official Thread.

Originally Posted by Ether

I thought Ronaldo was our best player too, but on the after-match analysis they seemed to be suggesting he'd had a poor game

Beat men at will, always threatened when given the ball even though he generally had 2 men on him. Fouled constantly. Would have scored with an excellent volley if not for a good block from some Celtic @#%&!.

His crossing was a bit hit and miss I suppose, but I thought he was excellent otherwise.

Agree with that.
Ronaldo's greatest quality is that he never goes hiding.
Thought he was great last night.

I really wish he'd cut out 2 things though -
1) Please stop lying on the floor sulking if you don't get a freekick.
2) Lets have a bit of variation with the Freekicks. You don't have to go for goal (& 9 times out of 10 hit the wall) regardless of how far out it is!

Other than that, more of the same on Saturday please.

Thought he was pretty much straight up off the floor last night.
There was a couple where he didn't but he took a few cracks last night to be fair.

Originally Posted by Gypsum Fantastic

There was a couple where he didn't but he took a few cracks last night to be fair.

Yep.
The Ref was a joke in that respect (aren't they all nowadays?)
Celtic left a foot in after practically every challenge. That @#%&! Brown was a dirty £#%&!er all night & got away with it.
There was also a 2-footed lunge from behind on Fletcher quite early on that the Ref deemed only worthy of a freekick.
Yet I think we had 2 yellow cards before the break against Celtic's none.

I'm not 'doing a Wenger' & moaning about physical football, but you expect the Ref to do his £#%&!ing job properly.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Yep.
The Ref was a joke in that respect (aren't they all nowadays?)
Celtic left a foot in after practically every challenge. That @#%&! Brown was a dirty £#%&!er all night & got away with it.
There was also a 2-footed lunge from behind on Fletcher quite early on that the Ref deemed only worthy of a freekick.
Yet I think we had 2 yellow cards before the break against Celtic's none.

I'm not 'doing a Wenger' & moaning about physical football, but you expect the Ref to do his £#%&!ing job properly.

a textbook yellow if ever there was one

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Yep.
The Ref was a joke in that respect (aren't they all nowadays?)
Celtic left a foot in after practically every challenge. That @#%&! Brown was a dirty £#%&!er all night & got away with it.
There was also a 2-footed lunge from behind on Fletcher quite early on that the Ref deemed only worthy of a freekick.
Yet I think we had 2 yellow cards before the break against Celtic's none.

I'm not 'doing a Wenger' & moaning about physical football, but you expect the Ref to do his £#%&!ing job properly.

To be fair to him, I enjoyed the way he let the game flow. Another ref and instead of it being a great 'blood and cliche' game it would have been incredibly stop start.

he definitely favoured them with the letting stuff go though

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

a textbook yellow if ever there was one

As was Rafael's early lunge if we're honest.

Originally Posted by Ether

As was Rafael's early lunge if we're honest.

Has anybody mentioned how dreadful he was? First 20-30 mins he completely lost his head.

Originally Posted by Ether

As was Rafael's early lunge if we're honest.

that much is true, thought he was shit first half...thankfully didn't have much to do thereafter, good experience for him tho

Originally Posted by dodger

Has anybody mentioned how dreadful he was? First 20-30 mins he completely lost his head.

Dreadful is a tad strong?

He was getting used to the atmosphere. FFs he has just turned 18. :shakehead:

Originally Posted by Part 36 Offer

Dreadful is a tad strong?

He was getting used to the atmosphere. FFs he has just turned 18. :shakehead:

I thought dreadful was pretty apt. although he improved later on.

Yes he's 18. yes he's getting used to it. They are merely the reasons why.