Yeah, from a quick glance at the headlines I'm almost driven to the conclusion that we were playing physical brutish football whilst Celtic tried to dance their way through our defense.
No one seems to devote a second of air time to the fact that there were two tackles from Celtic with deliberate intent to injure our players. Wanyama ( I think ) on Vidal at the edge of their penalty box, he tackles with a stretched leg and goes over the ball intentionally to hurt Vidal and the same thing on Pirlo I think later on.
Both those should've been yellow cards at the very least.
I'm Brazilian, not American. I don't know if you're from Dublin but if you are i ask, what do Irish people know of Football, really? It's not like they can say much about Americans.
I meant Ireland as i though Lublin was a funny way of saying Dublin, the guy's got a cat on his avatar after all. But yeah, just realized Lublin is an actual city in Poland. Which is even worse, the Polish can't really say anything about Americans when it comes to Football.
Why are you rednecks all butthurt suddenly. I wasn't even talking about regular Americans. I was talking about the TV pundits. Don't nuke my home please.
I didn't like how we couldn't keep the ball for too long but I'm very happy with this victory. I'm glad we have that ability to play from counter attacks and we're very good at defending even without Chiellini and Asamoah. Marchisio MOM, he was great.
Anyone else thinks that this game was good preparation to Naples encounter? They play dirty football to and run a lot too. It's just that they can't run for so long but they have better forwards. I hope this experience helps us.
Here is how one Celtic fan sees the second leg playins out:
2 minutes in... Samaras drives a header past Buffon. Juventus 0 - 1 Celtic. The Italians are briefly unsettled but quickly take control of the game.
50 minutes in... Celtic still lead despite the Italian's strangehold on the game. Celtic counter from a Juve corner. Commons pings a diagonal ball into the path of Hooper. Hooper ruthlessly thunders the ball high into the net. 2-0 celtic. Game on
87 minutes in... Juve are suffocating the Celtic team. No Celtic player has left Celtic's half for the past 10 minutes. Wanyama wins the ball at the edge of the celtic D and tanks through the wall of attacking Italians. Watt and Emilio surge down either wing. Wanyama slices the ball through to Izzy. Izzy sees Watt rushing into the penalty and curls a sweet ball that lands at his feet. Tony fucking Waaaa drills the ball into the net. Juventus 0 - Celtic 3. Game on.
90 +4 minutes.. The full time whistle goes and extra time is guaranteed.
Here is how one Celtic fan sees the second leg playins out:
2 minutes in... Samaras drives a header past Buffon. Juventus 0 - 1 Celtic. The Italians are briefly unsettled but quickly take control of the game.
50 minutes in... Celtic still lead despite the Italian's strangehold on the game. Celtic counter from a Juve corner. Commons pings a diagonal ball into the path of Hooper. Hooper ruthlessly thunders the ball high into the net. 2-0 celtic. Game on
87 minutes in... Juve are suffocating the Celtic team. No Celtic player has left Celtic's half for the past 10 minutes. Wanyama wins the ball at the edge of the celtic D and tanks through the wall of attacking Italians. Watt and Emilio surge down either wing. Wanyama slices the ball through to Izzy. Izzy sees Watt rushing into the penalty and curls a sweet ball that lands at his feet. Tony fucking Waaaa drills the ball into the net. Juventus 0 - Celtic 3. Game on.
90 +4 minutes.. The full time whistle goes and extra time is guaranteed.