Vienna really didn't do anything at all to take advantage of their man up after Witsel's red card at the end of the first half. I guess they were really keen on being conservative on the tough away trip, so there wasn't much to report from Holland's individual performance. Glad whoscored has him with 79% passing accuracy, third to Hulk and Danny for effective dribbles and one shot blocked.

Langerak with a good low stop from a free kick. Rogic on bench vs Barca.

Holy crap I forgot that Langerak's game was today. Both at half time now, great to see Dortmund up 1-0 and Celtic and Barca still 0-0.

their best cam got a long term injury just before their last UCL game I think

Red card for Scott Brown on the hour for Celtic, still 0-0 at 65 minutes, still no Rogic.

What are you waiting for Celtic? Rogic really needs a more appropriate club.

fully its gonna wreck his career there

3rd sub for celtic no rogic

No action for Rogic tonight. Leave in winter please! so fed up with this. The kid needs game time. Bundesliga 2 or Portugal.

All three of Celtic's subs used on midfielder's to protect their 0-1 loss. No Rogic tonight.

Seriously, he's gotta go to the continent on loan at least in the mid-season window if he's gonna be any use to us in Brazil.

Back to the Dortmund game, winning 3-0. Langerak seems to have done a fine job, looking forward to comparing his stats with Weidenfeller after another 90 minutes.

+1 for leaving. Even if he starts its not that big of a deal. Most of the teams he will play against are only slightly better than a league teams albeit with a different style and skill set

"Different" is a very kind choice of a word :lol:

Williams played a full game for Boro vs Huddersfield, 1-1. Lowry on bench for the 90 in a 4-0 loss to Birmingham

Edited by johnszasz: 2/10/2013 06:46:43 AM

right well it could be complimentary to rogic's skill set seeing as to break into the first 11 rogic will have to improve his defense, his aerial ability, his mobility and his shooting (mostly the power of his shooting since he is already quite accurate). Having rogic with all this skill set is a formidable prospect

still he is likely to learn all this in the buli 2 and get more game time and get his game developed. Heck he could probably crack a buli side if it was the right side

so leaving celtic is a low risk high reward prospect but staying is a high risk low reward

williams fourth best on pitch
http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/721121/LiveStatistics/England-Championship-2013-2014-Middlesbrough-Huddersfield

Good results for the Aussies that played today. Also I don't know why people seem to expect Rogic to play these games when he doesn't play in the SPL.

Langerak made 3 saves according to a tweet they re-tweeted. Not a massive number but still good he made some without conceding. Also not the only time he got the ball with 19 passes.

Also even against 10 men for a half I think Holland did well against a very good side (at least on paper) and away in Russia is one of the harder tasks you can have. Witsel, Hulk, Danny and Kerzhakov would make most sides. 2nd most touches to Suttner shows how he is integral to his team.

Edited by moofa: 2/10/2013 08:45:54 AM

Surely being hidden away on a bench in the SPL will have decreased his value though. Can't be the greatest advertisement for potential clubs. Needs to join a club akin to Club Brugge in the Belgian league, a Portuguese club or a mid to lower Bundesliga club. I have no doubts he would be good enough for them.

Clean sheet for Langerak in the Champions League. Eat a big bag of dicks Holger if you don't use him.

watching holland this morning, we need this guy in our starting 11.

I don't see why everyone is writing off Rogic at Celtic. Kruse at an older age spent a full year on the bench in the Bundesliga 2, now he is a first team player at Bayer Leverkusen. Rogic is only 20 and hasn't made the most of his opportunities when presented, but he is still learning his trade and getting experience in the ECL. He shouldn't resort to the knee jerk reaction of ditching Celtic for a crappier club just to get game time, he should work harder on breaking into the first team and when he does it should be based on merit not just because he's got fancy skills.

He'd have a good chance of winning a starting position with Academica and a possibility with Rio Ave and Nacional in Portugal. Rostov in Russia and Gent in Belgium are also possibilities. An outside chance Vitesse in the Netherlands.

I doubt any of those teams would want to sign him, all the hype around him will have gone by now.. he will struggle to get a move anywhere but the a-league.

Wilko on this week's "Best XI"

Pretty sure he's been a regular in these teams of the week this season, yet can't even make a Socceroos squad. BS

Because he isn't good enough. Just because you score team of the week in a crap league like Korea doesn't mean you're good enough to represent your country.

Interesting reply, with the choice of the clubs, why did you pick Gent?

Good thing I can read Korean or else I wouldn't have known which one he was :p

Great to see, hopefully he can get more game time leading up to the world cup.

How do we know he isn't good enough to play for the Socceroos when he's never made a squad? He's a regular starter in a stronger league than what Ognenovski plays in, and until ~6 weeks ago Lucas didn't even have a club and still got picked ahead of Wilko.

Nice, I sincerely hope he recovers his form, I'm amply on record here as saying we need more options at the back.