Just watched the highlights of this, an absolute battering for Rangers who were very poor throughout.
The interesting thing for me is Brendan Rodgers, I thought he was a real bullshit merchant when he was at Liverpool and that he just got lucky having Suarez in the side.
However looking at that game today he does seem able to get his teams to play with real energy going forward, Sinclair and Dembele were a class above and poor old Senderos got a right chasing.
It will be interesting to see if Rodgers gets another gig in England, he does seem to have something special about him as a manager and gets players like Sinclair to really play for him.
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Rodgers seems to have instilled an attacking mentality, which is going down well. Dembelle probably wouldn't have played yesterday, had Griffiths been fit.
Still only Scottish Premiership. The game at the Nou Camp this week will be a little different...although Barca did get beat last night!! Who knows
Most of the Rangers side are English League 1 or 2 standard and Celtic aren't much better.
I used to watch Scottish football every week when I lived in Ayr up to 2008 and the standard has dropped dramatically since then.
I can't see Celtic scoring a single goal in The Champions League and I fully expect them to get humped in every game.
They seem to be spending, even if mostly on wages. Whether they're signing the right players is another matter.
Undoubtedly the standard has dropped and Celtic do look to be on a hiding to nothing in this group. We'll soon see.
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Klopp is a better manager than him of course, but he hasn't kicked them on massively they are still a Europa League level side because of the pretty average signings their committee continues to make.
Yeah he says some nonsense but who cares really.
Celtic already had the stronger squad and have added pace and quality. The gap between the sides will close over the next twelve months, which can only be good for Scottish football.
He's still in Scotland.
HIbs took full advantage in the Cup Final, with Stokes getting behind Tavernier the right back throughout the game, causing havoc, including the first goal. Add to that poor defending at set plays, as illustrated by the late winner. WHich was also the case for Celtics second goal in the Old Firm.
In the Old Firm, Forrest got behind Wallace the right back, throughout the first half in particular, allowing Dembele to lsolate Senderos in the central areas.
Rangers haven't changed their system since last season, when most first division teams didn't have the tools to capitalise. In a televised league cup tie against Motherwell earlier in the season, Ainsworth also got behind Wallace and caused havoc, but the likes of McDonald and Johnson missed clear cut chances to score. Where Dalia didn't have the tactical plan to beat Rangers in last years Semi final, Rodgers clearly did yesterday, albeit using the template set out by Alan Stubbs in the Cup Final. Add in Barton & Kranjcar getting over-run in central midfield and Rangers were dismantled. Rogic failed to capitalise on the space he had in the no.10 role in the first half, with a lack of quality in his play, otherwise it could have been more. When the more direct and more mobile Armstrong came on, the game really opened up for Celtic.
Warburton looks like a one-trick pony at the moment and needs to adapt.
Rodgers will experience the boot being on the other foot in Barcelona on Wednesday. However, In this game, he showed he had more than enough nous to set his team up to capitalise on clear weaknesses in the opposition's system.
As a Dundee United fan who used to go home and away, till I was 16 and moved to London, the shit I saw at ibrox and septic park as a kid was disgraceful! Worse than I have ever saw at milwank or palarse.
Looked out the window at all the abuse and one guy pulled down his trousers shat on the pavement then threw it at the bus windows! Luckily it wasn't mine.
Always a shite time at ibrox
He did what he had to do in getting them back to the SPL but they may need to bring in someone with more clout, although I am not sure what kind of funding they have these days.