celtic played a really really good game tho. like, I think 2-1 was actually a reasonably fair result - although barcelona definitely had the chances needed to score more, they were also lucky to finish with 11 players. prolly among the better games ever by any celtic side, honestly.

Sated

England4983 Posts

November 07 2012 21:45 GMT

#334

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WillyWanker

France1915 Posts

November 07 2012 21:47 GMT

#335

On November 08 2012 06:43 Liquid`Drone wrote:
celtic played a really really good game tho. like, I think 2-1 was actually a reasonably fair result - although barcelona definitely had the chances needed to score more, they were also lucky to finish with 11 players. prolly among the better games ever by any celtic side, honestly.

The draw would have been fair. They score on their only attempt and their 2nd goal is the fruit of Barcelona looking for the goal and giving up on the defending side... You can't call that a good game, you call that a good result, this game was terrible to watch, one team playing the other one waiting and then celebrating the victory like they won the world cup...
I know this is the only way to defeat Barcelona when you don't have a lot of star players but god this just brings awful games...

Mavkar

Germany592 Posts

November 07 2012 21:53 GMT

#336

Or you have to learn to appreciate good defending and tactical discipline over 90 minutes combined with ruthless capitalizing on the enemies mistakes.

I'm as always glad Barcelona lost. The German teams did well overall. Let's hope this trend continues tomorrow in Euro League.

WillyWanker

France1915 Posts

November 07 2012 22:00 GMT

#337

Oh I appreciate in a way, but football is also about entertaining and this is supposed to be the show between the best teams of Europe. To win like that against Barcelona you need to face them on their bad day, have a goalkeeper playing the game of his life, have luck (2 shots on the post) and be a killer on your few attempts. It worked today, it's nice for Celtic, their public is amazing and I always prefer to see this kind of team winning against my team than to see a multi millionaire team like Chelsea play this way.

You can't take away the fact that playing like Celtic is so much easier than to try and play with more creativity.

Liquid`Drone

Norway28908 Posts

November 07 2012 22:05 GMT

#338

I thought celtic played great. they had good passing, they were attacking a lot, they ran incredible amounts, they did a stellar job defending and pressuring barcelona after losing the ball (which is one of the best qualities of barcelona anyway), and they converted their chances. barcelona got the little bit of referee help there was in the game. they just didn't play better than celtic today, and them losing was a fair result. I also think a draw wouldve been fair, maybe even fairer, but it just kinda seems like you had preferred celtic to just roll over and die over doing the best possible job with what they had.

I also really enjoyed watching the end game happiness

WillyWanker

France1915 Posts

November 07 2012 22:07 GMT

#339

On November 08 2012 07:05 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I thought celtic played great. they had good passing, they were attacking a lot

Come on, if having 3 shots in total in the game is attacking a lot, we're not talking about the same sport... They just took more risks in the last 30mn, meaning that instead of having 2 players involved in the counter attacks they had 3...

Otolia

France5805 Posts

November 07 2012 22:08 GMT

#340

The new Chelsea is a good offensive but a terrible defensive one. Even though it's in total contrast with Mourinho's team, it seems that Chelsea's spirit to fight until the end isn't dead. The greats are greater when they face adversity.