Hrustic starting against Fiorentina

Majority of Celtic fans saying Mooy killing the pace and offer nothing but sideway and backward.

Strain and Baccus have been immense. Seriously impressive performances from them both. 

Yes, they have been very good.

Metcalfe on for the second half

There goes Ange’s record for undefeated games 

These games used to be built for rogic, a game breaker. 

Ange got a 39 game hoodoo?
Wasn't the A-league record also 38 games

3 without a win now.

Hrustic off on ‘62, had some tidy moments and looks like his game is tailor made for Serie A, but my god the game was very scrappy/sloppy and neither team has been able to string together any meaningful possession.

You mean he is human? 

https://youtu.be/30kI_pR4Z3o

Rough day for Ryan in a 2:1 loss. Poor defence allowed the second one where he got a hand on it but it deflected inwards.

The penalty at the end seemed to be taken back due to the ball not being correctly on the spot. Did the shooter halt his run up? 

Lucky first touch and was then allowed so much time to readjust his balance and prepare for the strike.

The shot was good but it wouldn't have gotten to the point of shooting in the world cup.

I like Taggart btw

Just providing a follow up to a story that was published in 2020. Fernando Rech's son was signed as a 17 year old to an academy in Brazil.  His name is Rafael (known as Rafinha!) was born in Brisbane and has dual nationality.  Anyway, he made his senior debut in Brazil for Juventude a few weeks ago.  Has had a tough run with injury, missing all of 2021, yet this year, played a few games in the U20's, before being promoted to the U23's and now the seniors. Haven't had a chance to see any of these recent performances, but pretty interesting story for those that remember his father.

Mooy as an No.6 doesn’t fit with that midfield, they needed Hatate and O’Riley who can break the lines.

Anyway I don’t think they played well, it’s a good time to lose when its the international break for the next 2 weeks.

Tete Yengi with another 2 assists for VPS 3-2 win in Finnish league. That’s 6 goals and 7 assists in 22 games. 

Thanks for the update. I vaguely remember some hype around this kid before his injuries. 

Finland is a country of 5 million that loves hockey and happens to have a pro football league. It's a 1 team league affair, HJK, and it's not in the top 100 UEFA ranking. Their pro league has only been running around 10 years longer than the a-league. Some of the clubs have next to 0 foreigners as well. Backwater, yep.

He doesn’t - he’s too old by 3 years. Current U20s are 2003 born or younger. Yengi is 2000 born.

In fact Yengi is actually too old even for the Olyroos (2001 born and younger). 

Apologies. My bad. Futmob app has his birthday as march 8 2003. I should have double checked with a source outside the app. 

Two unbelievable brain explosions from their No. 6 gifted Swansea two of the goals. I agree that Elder put in a reasonable effort. Pity that Hull, WBA and Boro all seem to be struggling at the bottom of the Championship.

https://youtu.be/OhJpHQc_yVE

Yeah but Celtic fans are idiots (coming from a celtic fan). Theyve been saying this about mooy since he started - in the most part they have a very old school british/irish fightball mentality when it come to football. I swear if Pirlo himself had of come through the ranks at celtic he ouldn't have made it, branded too slow and ponderous.

Taggart not very good scoring with chances?! His finishing has always been excellent! Him and McLaren have been the best finishers in the A league in the last 10 years. McLaren's off the ball proably better than Taggs, Taggs more skillful on the ball and able to join in the buildup and interplay

Mooy is painfully slow at this level. 

He's slowed down since Brighton. The times when he was higher up running rings was so much fun. Ange wouldn't pick him if he wasn't up to it though. St Mirren picked a good time to beat Celtic. Plenty of Celtic fans have enjoyed Mooy's ball work so far. 

Any idea when the loan ends? If he can go back to Ipswich in league 1 and score/assist he will get his chances for the NT

I don't think it's the level it's the style of play. Scotland is fast paced football and Celtic is Scottish football combined with angeball. 

Mooy wasn't the sole reason they lost to St Mirren. They were poor across the park and didn't look any better in the second half after he was off. St Mirren were great as well, they played a very low block and held their lines really well. It really stifled Celtics attacking runs and they weren't able to get in behind like they normally do. 

It ends after the end of the Finnish season on December 31. Ipswich are playing well and scoring a lot. They will be heading up if they keep this up so hopefully Yengi gets a run when he gets back. 

Did U watch Cerezo Osaka every week? Taggart missed a lot of easy shots though he did scored some important goals. His strength is that he got involved in Cerezo build up play which is valuable to the team.  Cerezo always have to 2 upfront and they do high pressing but U can see another Japanese guy did press better than him. Everyone have strengths and weakness but this is something he needs to work on.