Match Thread Celtic v Rangers - 12:30 Saturday - Sky Sports

[JDC76]

Mate he has started with Lawrence in midfield and our most solid midfielder at RW. Why are people still defending his team selections. Yes we have injuries but he’s went into his 3rd old firm game and shown he hasn’t learned a thing from the first 2.

Every single person on here said we needed a solid midfield 3 with Sterling in there and he starts with fvcking Lawrence. Absolute shambles

Not disagreeing. I think we have a real lack of quality in a number of positions and he’s doing his best with what we have. It’s horrendous to watch and we see it coming every time

 

[Weedoddieno6]

Lundstrum loses his runner for the first, scores an og and commits suicide tackle 90 yards from his goal and gets a stick on red.

Don’t let the door hit you on way out.

 

[Thasunke Witko]

Lawrence was too slow, his man got passed him. The he allowed the ball in. O'Riley then ran off Borna to shoot

So the Dane got left by half the statues in the team, too many times he and Forrest have passed their way to our 18 yard box by our left side not tracking.

 

[lovenkrands72]

Surprised Silva is getting as much grief. Thought he's been one of our better payers.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Got to be the end of Lundstram at Rangers.

Absolutely massive match and he's let us down badly.

 

[Sword & Shield]

Why are so many of our players incapable of making a simple effing pass

We must have played 5 or 6 balls to no one from a good postion in their half.

 

[GeeSpot]

BTW, it'll get lost in all this but anyone who doesn't have concerns about how Phil sets up and approaches OF games is a better person than me.

He hasn't figured out that you need to win the physical battle first and then pick them off.

 

[Blootoonboy]

Yep.

Many of us predicted this.

For me there have been red flags on Clement for quite a while.

Serious questions need asked now, he simply doesnt learn.

A poor start to next season or no improvements in performances then he wont last long.

I still dont know what our style of play is?

 

[ForeverBlue1972]

They’re defence get the ball they stroll forward 30+yards like beckenbaur look up pick a pass we get the ball we do a suicidal pass across to Davies who passes to baraisic who then try’s to play a long ball but Forrest has pressed him must have done that 6 times and been caught out twice and close the rest

 

[Alex Hunter]

Collum history… no red card.

No VAR there, obviously. Let’s remember that on first viewing today, he gave a yellow.

Digging this up is silly. I hate Collum as much as the next guy but he’s not the one to blame for today.

 

[Growler]

Lawrence and Lundstram have been a disgrace.

Don’t want to pile on Clement, but starting Lawrence over Cantwell was a stupid decision.

 

[madride]

Games done with that red. Sick of it

 

[jexx]

Let's try to get something here. Subs and living in hope.

 

[Ted Rangers]

The same thing keeps happening

Ccv or scales stroll out
Lawrence has to go, leaving McGregor
Then they have a free man in the middle.. Just walking though us

It's tactical, Rodgers is absolutely doing Clement

That issue starts with not having a striker trigger the press, or a 10 pressing with energy.

No manager can make these players do that.

There's also a problem with a midfield who are too scared to press higher because the defence is so poor, and full backs who can't defend or attack.

 

[Der_Metzgermeister]

Barisic has been accused of playing up injuries to get subbed off games. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. But what Lundstram has done there is the cowards way out.

 

[Kingwoody]

High balls into their 6 yard box all 2nd half

4-4-1 Lawrence off for Cantwell

 

[Macky]

No surprises in the 1st half.

Silva has the heart of a mouse, 2 players watch Oriley drift into space and don't match the run.

The less said about Beckenbauer the better.

Make a fist of it 2nd half you gutless cants and see where it takes us.

Ps. If Clement doesn't know by now the old guard have no stomach for the fight he'll be the latest in a long list to get his jotters.

Silva is the only player trying to make things happen. He’s the least of our worries today

 

[delboi]

Full force studs up, down to 10 men. Please tell me how that is 'great'?

Firstly...settle down.
Secondly...looked like a good tackle in real time and exactly the sort of pressure we should be putting them under.

 

[Phil'ieve]

Agreed. Sterling in centre mid was what he should have done. Plain to see for all.

Clutching at straws here but if we move Sterling in to where Lundstram was I actually think we'll be better with 10 than we were with eleven

 

[sofakineazy]

No leaders in our midfield.
Powderpuff.

We have a leader stuck out on the right

 

[Barrymoped]

Willie Collum cheats us.
We complain.
Willie Collum gets OF game again
Willie Collum cheats again

When/how will this cycle be ended?

Cheats us?

Cummon mate, that was a clear red, take the tinted specs off, it was a shocker, we would be going utterly mental if that was the other way around

 

[Arkanoid]

Big moments have gone against us, switched off at the first, unlucky at the 2nd and haven't done enough with our big moments. Lawrence and Diomande anonymous AGAIN in an Old Firm match.
Actually feel for Lundstram there as it's never a red card and he's been left on his own in the midfield.
4-3-2 Sterling in the middle of the park, and direct all the time.
Cheating bastards

 

[Disco Down]

I can’t believe folk are arguing against that red card.

It’s the most pointless challenge. Even if he had won the ball they’d still have been going nowhere.

 

[Blue Lew]

That own goal and the red card.

Can also throw in his usual lazy jog at their first goal. Barisic wasn’t much better to be fair.

 

[Aggieblue]

Half Time, Cantwell on for Lawrence! McCausland wide right, Sterling to midfield, Silva off!

 

[Papasmurf]

I get your point but he’s said repeatedly he wants to keep Lundstram, if he really means that then it’s a huge red flag

maybe he does.

Maybe he’s saying that to keep him on side knowing he is away.

Either way. Thats should be his last game.

 

[andyb1776]

Surely nobody is surprised by the culprit for the calamity today.

3 games to go for him and the others

He won't get three games, surely the red carries a ban and I wouldn't play him after that.

 

[King Albertz]

I actually blame Silva for not tracking at the first

Nah.. lundstram was supposed to be marking him the whole game, he didn't track

Barasic maybe could have covered better as well

 

[magoob1982]

Watching the replay of Lundstram’s “goal”, what is he ACTUALLY trying to do there!?

lady's front bottom thought he’d do a souness! Unfortunately today with VAR your fucked can only hope for a miracle now, Clement needs to now prove he can be a tactical genius to overcome this.

 

[Rangerslion]

We're getting nothing from these losers.

Listen, loads of times a player is sent off in a big game the ref will even it up with any suspicious tackle from the other team. You don't know how the second half will play out. Their defense is shit we just need to run at them, plus look how the last game went against them so just don't give up so easily.

 

[No Hiding Place]

Alistair Johnston is a dirty little bastard who is ironically the most protected player in the league.
Corrupt bastards.

 

[Wee Buster]

Watching the replay of Lundstram’s “goal”, what is he ACTUALLY trying to do there!?

Only he knows

 

[frankie_dux]

Surprised Silva is getting as much grief. Thought he's been one of our better payers.

He’s been our best player

I suppose that tells its own story

 

[King Baldwin IV]

Are the IRA holding Lundstrams family hostage?

 

[Brighton_Loyal]

Surprised Silva is getting as much grief. Thought he's been one of our better payers.

Silva has played well today

 

[top_cat]

Cannae wait to be at Ibrox on Tuesday night now *






*Gallows humour

 

[StaunchEnclosure]

Pretty shite for the manager when your guy is a fucking liability

 

[BrooklynBlue]

None of this is a surprise.

I genuinely can’t believe Clement went like this again. It didn’t work the previous game. Or the time before that.

Awful.

 

[The Goal Machine]

That was a red all day long. What a stupid tackle from Lundstram. We get back in the game, go on at half time one down and he does that.

 

[Dado_Prso_9]

The worrying thing is there is apparently a deal on the table, he will end up reluctantly signing when he sees nobody else wants him and we will be stuck with him for 4 more years (Goldson over again)

He’s signed for Trabzonspor, it’s been all over Turkish media that it’s all but done, along with Barisic, official announcement isn’t far away.

Thank f**k.

 

[Jeff Portnoy]

That wasn't even a yellow

 

[King Richard]

so many of this squad need moved on/out
frightening level of rebuild required

It seems like we need a full rebuild every year.

Our recruitment is an absolute shambles

 

[FamousRFC]

Get Cantwell, Raskin and Yilmaz on for Lawrence, Silva and Barisic.

Silva hasn’t done anything wrong

 

[muttley]

Their defence can be got at but their midfield is miles better than ours.

They could play without defenders and our players would still be scared to beat them.

It is terrible to watch.

 

[Papasmurf]

Can also throw in his usual lazy jog at their first goal. Barisic wasn’t much better to be fair.

Shock horror.

 

[Kentbear]

Watching the replay of Lundstram’s “goal”, what is he ACTUALLY trying to do there!?

I want to check his Paddy Power account.

 

[pandager1]

Collum history… no red card.

The laws of the game have changed since 2010/11.

 

[Donsky]

That from Lundstram sums of the sort of players we have had at the club over the past few years. A handful of good performances, but when it matters most they will let you down.

 

[Blootoonboy]

We must have played 5 or 6 balls to no one from a good postion in their half.

That mob seem to find a man with crisp accurate passing and they always seem to play forward in our final third.

Our passing in comparison is a disgrace.

 

[Meister61]

Sterling into Midfield, Silva and Dessers up top then make 3 subs if it's still 2-1 after 10 mins.

Roofe on for Silva,
Yilmaz on for Barisic
Raskin on for Diomande