Bayern Munich v Celtic tonight

[LancsHibs]

Let's hope for a hard exerting match tonight, played at 100mph with plenty crunching tackes and a few knocks for the lesser greens😉Not sure result wise what the best option would be?

[DarlingtonHibee]

A few injuries would be great

[Lancs Harp]

An air traffic controllers strike and a long long coach drive home wouldnt go amiss. :greengrin

[Hibernia&Alba]

I don't think the result matters in relation to the semi-final. More important could be any injuries and players rested. If Celtic are tired, that would be a big help.

[Firestarter]

Hope they get pummelled all game and scrape a draw. Much rather face them on the back of a good euro result than a shafting where they'd look to take it out on us. Draw and an eye off the game on sat would be nice.

[hibs#1]

Think simunovic(sp?) Is injured for it don't know if he will on Saturday or not.

[Big_Franck]

Hope they get pumped by 4 or 5 with a long delay to their flight coming back as well. Brown breaking down again would be a bonus also.

[Elephant Stone]

Hope they get pummelled all game and scrape a draw. Much rather face them on the back of a good euro result than a shafting where they'd look to take it out on us. Draw and an eye off the game on sat would be nice.

I was pleased when I saw they were playing Bayern before us but you're right, there is probably nothing worse for us than a heavy Celtic defeat before they play us.

[anon1875]

Hoping for a Celtic win so their players hopefully celebrate a little bit on the way back and hopefully pick up a few knocks. It's really hard to get yourself up for a mid week game after a big win. If they lose big they'll be out to prove a point come the weekend.


GGTH

[Baader]

Celtic avoiding defeat is best for us. Hopefully a tough battle with some casualties.

[Sammy7nil]

Celtic avoiding defeat is best for us. Hopefully a tough battle with some casualties.

I hope they defend great are battered for 96 mins and lose 1 - 0 to a 97th min disputed pen :greengrin

[Bristolhibby]

Celtic avoiding defeat is best for us. Hopefully a tough battle with some casualties.

This. It’s the knackerdness we need though. They need to be exhausted.

No Sunday game either fellas, early Saturday for yous.

Agree, a heavy defeat would elicit some kind of response.

J

[Ryan69]

This. It’s the knackerdness we need though. They need to be exhausted.

No Sunday game either fellas, early Saturday for yous.

Agree, a heavy defeat would elicit some kind of response.

J

Ive never bought into that reasoning.

It definately doesnt take 4 days to recover from a 90 minute game of football.

[Hibbyradge]

Ive never bought into that reasoning.

It definately doesnt take 4 days to recover from a 90 minute game of football.

You should tell that to all the managers of clubs who play in the Champions League.

They might be getting paid millions for their expertise and knowledge, but you could set them straight about this.

In any case, Wednesday night to Saturday morning does not provide 4 days if recovery.

[ancient hibee]

Ive never bought into that reasoning.

It definately doesnt take 4 days to recover from a 90 minute game of football.
Played many European games have you?

[SirDavidsNapper]

Griffiths, Dembele, Brown, Tierney, Sinclair, Roberts, McGregor, Armstrong, Rogic injuries would be nice. Nothing long term I'm not an animal 😉

[Ryan69]

Played many European games have you?

No...But I did go through P-Company till I snapped my ankle.

Which is a hell of a lot harder than running about for 90 mins.

[Ryan69]

You should tell that to all the managers of clubs who play in the Champions League.

They might be getting paid millions for their expertise and knowledge, but you could set them straight about this.

In any case, Wednesday night to Saturday morning does not provide 4 days if recovery.

3 days sorry,I was thinking it was Tuesday today.

[Steve20]

Hope they get pumped 5 or 6-0.

[silverhibee]

You should tell that to all the managers of clubs who play in the Champions League.

They might be getting paid millions for their expertise and knowledge, but you could set them straight about this.

In any case, Wednesday night to Saturday morning does not provide 4 days if recovery.

:agree:

Celtc team will get back to Glasgow airport in the early hours of tomorrow morning, they will train Thursday afternoon and train Friday morning then have a couple of hours and will have to be in the hotel they are staying in for about 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon.

Hopefully Celtc get pumped tonight, it will have a affect on the players if it is a 5 goal defeat against them, Celtc getting beat or drawing in a small margin (1-0-2-1-1-1) will give they players a lift that they kept the score down and would be well up for it on Saturday, getting pumped 6-0 will have a affect on morale going in to Saturdays game with the heads down a bit.

We are playing them at the right time and Lennon will know this, wouldn't surprise me if Griffiths & Sinclair are rested for tonight and Dembele starts upfront on his own tonight and someone coming in for Sinclair, Rodgers will know that the best Celtc are getting out of this group is 3rd place and they probably have that in the bag so getting to a major final this weekend will probably be a bigger priority for him and his team.

Hibs at 13/2 to win is a very temping price.

[PeeJay]

Hope Celtic put in a good performance this evening and spoil the evening for Bayern - interesting article in the SZ paper this morning praising the skills of Lee Griffiths and his ability with free kicks, the article also claimed that NOBODY in Europe knows anything about Griffiths ... maybe they will after this evening's game? He's probably Celtic's best chance of scoring this evening ...

[BegbieHSC]

Bayern look like they might have the fire back with Heynckes as boss.
I'm calling a 6/7 nil, the Sellic to get absolutely run ragged all over the park; Broony injured again, and everyone else shattered and totally demoralised.

Then Hibs will beat them 3-2 this weekend :aok:

[mim]

Regardless of any implications for the semi, I hope Celtic do Scotland proud tonight.
I'll be supporting them, as I would (almost) every other Scottish team :greengrin

[HoboHarry]

Regardless of any implications for the semi, I hope Celtic do Scotland proud tonight.
I'll be supporting them, as I would (almost) every other Scottish team :greengrin
Same for me - I hope Celtic pull off a shock and win tonight then I hope they get skelped by us..... :agree:

[SteveHFC]

Bayern look like they might have the fire back with Heynckes as boss.
I'm calling a 6/7 nil, the Sellic to get absolutely run ragged all over the park; Broony injured again, and everyone else shattered and totally demoralised.

Then Hibs will beat them 3-2 this weekend :aok:

Hibs to win 3-2 with stokes scoring anytime is 71/1. :hyper

[Winston Ingram]

I hope they get utterly battered. :agree:

[lyonhibs]

I hope they get pumped, smashed and ruined both physically on the pitch and on the scoreboard.

[blackpoolhibs]

I hope they keep it tight, and are made to chase the ball all over the park all night. A good humping will allow them to bring off a few players for Saturday.

[lyonhibs]

I hope they keep it tight, and are made to chase the ball all over the park all night. A good humping will allow them to bring off a few players for Saturday.

If they get lured into chasing the ball around the park all night, they won't be keeping it tight that's for sure.

[Hibrandenburg]

Hope they get hammered and run ragged for 90 minutes then scrape an injury time winner. The adrenalin rush on top of the exertion would leave them running on empty for days. I have no time for Celtic but the same applies to Bayern.

[sixtwo]

I hope they win then celebrate by getting steaming for a couple of days

[Billy Whizz]

Brown and Armstrong start, but their big centre half out

[Glory Lurker]

Hope they lose in last minute, exhaustion causing them to heart-breakingly lose the two goal lead they'd been defending since the fifth minute.

[Jamesconnolly]

Brown and Armstrong start, but their big centre half out
Hope they both get injured too :flag:

[hibsbollah]

I'd be delighted to see our big cousins claim a famous victory from the dastardly clinch of the bosch. Play up Celtic :flag:

[GlesgaeHibby]

Celtic getting lucky in first few mins. Bayern had good goal ruled out and should have had a penalty.

[HoboHarry]

Not Celtic but a beauty of a goal from David Luiz for Chelsea.

[DarlingtonHibee]

Celtic getting lucky in first few mins. Bayern had good goal ruled out and should have had a penalty.

Is the ref from Dublin?

[gunnerhibee]

So many chances missed by Bayern already :confused:

[gaz1875]

Musical statues defending there, hopefully carry that onto Saturday :greengrin

[DarlingtonHibee]

1_0

[IGRIGI]

I hope we're working on our delivery from the wings, Celtic don't like dealing with crosses.

[hibsbollah]

I hope we're working on our delivery from the wings, Celtic don't like dealing with crosses.

Shame we don't have Kingsley Coman out wide really:greengrin

[HoboHarry]

I hope we're working on our delivery from the wings, Celtic don't like dealing with crosses.

I thought that was more of a Sevco problem 😁

[gaz1875]

I hope we're working on our delivery from the wings, Celtic don't like dealing with crosses.

They struggle to defend when teams press them in their own half, you can see how far off they stand when they play this style of sit in football. Roll reversal from most Scottish games.

[Scorrie]

2-0. Very good goal

[Phil MaGlass]

ooops this could be bad, players unmarked all over the place

[Golden Bear]

Could be a cricket score by the end of 90 mins. It's men against bhoys.

[HibeesLA]

2-0. Very good goal

I get that Gordon was wrong footed on that one, but I would have expected to see him at least make an attempt to go for that one. Looked saveable from a keeper like him.

[Delboy4]

Should Gordon not have got that one or at least dived

[DarlingtonHibee]

Could be a cricket score by the end of 90 mins. It's men against bhoys.

Obviously our fault, they don't have enough competition....

[Bostonhibby]

Obviously our fault, they don't have enough competition....

Genetics, we need to move on.

[cabbageandribs1875]

only watched the last 5 mins, if scott brown had been fit for the scotland game in slovenia we would have been in the play-offs, what a player he is with a couple of superb passes already

[Phil MaGlass]

Robben doing some defending, funny.:greengrin

[Delboy4]

Nicholas = phanny

[Mr White]

Craig Gordon's body language looks awful just like it did in Slovenia. Standing with his arms by his side doesn't make him look like he's ready to spring into action at a split second's notice. He looks like he can't really be bothered.

No doubt he'll play out of his skin on Saturday though.

[cabbageandribs1875]

i hope whoever the new scotland coach is he drops that lanky git craig gordon

[Delboy4]

I think we should really go for it on Saturday as they look terrible at the back and Gordon to me has lost a lot of confidence since the Scotland game. He is shocking tonight

[Phil MaGlass]

Sellik wont be tired after this, all they are doing is defending, not much running,:greengrin

[LithgaeHibby]

How bad are Celtic? Even allowing for the quality of Bayern this is a shocking performance. Same again Sat please.

[Mr White]

How bad are Celtic? Even allowing for the quality of Bayern this is a shocking performance. Same again Sat please.

Better teams than Celtc have been made to look like amateurs at the Allianz. Didn't they pump arsenal 5-1 there last season?

[bingo70]

How bad are Celtic? Even allowing for the quality of Bayern this is a shocking performance. Same again Sat please.

Whenever you play a team better than you the first thing you've got to be is hard to beat and match them physically.

Really surprised how naive Rodgers has been, he's obviously a fantastic man manager but he's maybe not the best tactically.

[Halmyre Hibee]

I think we can take them.

[oneone73]

I think we can take them.

Bayern or the Smellies?

[southern hibby]

Bayern or the Smellies?

Obviously Both.


GGTTH

[Lancs Harp]

Bayern or the Smellies?


Both, beat Bayern in the morning Celtic in the afternoon. We are Hibs.

[Carheenlea]

That would have been a mentally draining 90 minutes for Celtic to keep the scoreline semi respectable.

[Smartie]

Both, beat Bayern in the morning Celtic in the afternoon. We are Hibs.

We are good, we have Celtic and Bayern on the run.

[hibsbollah]

How bad are Celtic? Even allowing for the quality of Bayern this is a shocking performance. Same again Sat please.

Bayern haven't started well this season, have political problems in the boardroom and rows on the dressing room. Perfect time for a upset but celtc ****ed it up.

[number9dream]

Very one sided game, Celtic chasing shadows in the first half.
We need to get at that defence whenever we get a chance, although Boyle and Swanson are not quite the threat of Robben and Coman!
Rogic will probably start at Hampden after coming on as a sub and maybe Forrest and McGregor too.
Ntcham and Armstrong were particularly hopeless last night.
It would be best if Ntcham stayed in since McGinn absolutely owned him at Celtic Park.