Celtic beat Everton 1-0 actually, pre-season games don't mean much at all though. They're a decent side but not great. The signing of Jan Venegoor or Hesselink and expected signing of Thomas Gravesen will help them. Celtic have a number of attacking players, like Maloney and Nakamura, who will cause problems. Although they're losing Stan Petrov and their defence is weak. I expect Benfica and Man Utd to go thorugh, although (sorry) I expect a much improved Utd side to win the group. Celtic and FCK will fight it out for the UEFA cup spot. As for Celtic fans? Deluded scum (well,most of them ).
Seriously? My memory is truely terrible....Am I thinking of a different pre-season loss? They played Man U didn't they? I'll just shut up and anticipate the start of the matches.
Er no we beat everton in that particular friendly, we just lost the rest, not that it matters a shit.
(warning, this may get funny) Celtic's preseason results: Legia Warsaw 0 - 1 Wisla Krakow 0 - 2 DC United 0 - 4 Chivas of Guadalajara 0 - 0 New England Revolution 1 - 1 Everton 1 - 0 Manchester United 0 - 3 Yokohama F Marinos 0 - 3 Chelsea 1 - 1 You actually managed to pick out their only win in a friendly In fairness to them the team that will start the CL games will be very different to the team that started any of those games. Games like the one against Man Utd were basically reserve games, they had a crazy (money driven) pre-season schedule which actually went into the first couple of weeks of the season.
Haha, how strange of me to point out the Everton game. I think it was fresh in my mind as it was one of the only pre-season games I actually bothered to watch. I'm excited to watch Celtic in action now.
I agree Vic we have had poor results away in Europe but they played well in some and were unlucky not to take something from the games,anyway we are a different side now and our luck must change in the away ties as you need a bit of luck as well as playing well.If we can win our home games again and take a point away that would be enough.We got 9 points last time but didn't make the last 16,that doesn't happen very often. "HAIL HAIL THE CELTS ARE HERE"
Enough with the Celtic - Rangers- Religion crap. Take it to your Scottish forums and start preparing for a couple of loses at home.
Our group is tuff but not impossible. We need to win at least 2 of the home games and get some points away....Tuff but duable.
I'm predicting the following as far as Benfica's performance in our group. vs Manchester- Draw at home, Loss away vs Celtic- Win at home, Draw away vs Copenhagen- Win at home, Draw away I figure SLB will total 9 points and finish second in the group. My only concern is whether Copenhagen will take points off of Celtic. I see Celtic beating Manchester in Scotland so if Copenhagen doesn't take points off of Celtic I think Benfica may finish third. That would suck but on the bright side I think Benfica could make a very serious run at the Uefa cup.
Don't even think about Uefa!!!! I think we will beat ManU at home 2-1, lose away. Beat Copenhagen both home and away and tie celtic both games.
i think it's a little advantage that of our first 3 matches 2 are away legs (copenhagen + celtic). so we have the possibility to play in a difficult surrounding and hopefully reach a good result and then at home seal the qualification to the round of 16.
I would love it if Celtic and Benfica progressed to the last 16 with Copenhagen dropping down to the Uefa cup and Man u out of Europe,not as far fetched as you may think,although they have top class players they are no longer the team they once were, heres hoping but as long as Celtic do well i'm happy.
As a Celtic fan I'd predict that Benfica will beat Copenhagen home & away, beat us in Lisbon lose in Glasgow and lose & draw against Man U. Benfica look like a decent bet to qualify from their group with those 10 points. On a totally unrelated note - what does "Levantamento Estádio" translate as?
i odnt know about this group. its not about the other teams becuase i seriously belive we have the best "team" in this group the problem is the team. benfica has too many good players and again for the second straight year will not have a consistant team and like we saw last year if your team isnt consistant you will lose team chemistry and therefore that is the reason why i am worried about the preformance in the CL the Taca and the Liga. lets hope im wrong.
afer having seen such a match like on wed. i hope they change their minds or they will be out before they even realise that they are in...