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Celtic are really struggling to get near Barca tonight. Been run ragged all over the park. Almost got a lucky break with the penalty but failed to capitalise. They've not been great but there is no shame in this result. Better teams than Celtic have been torn apart by Barca. Been really impressed by Barca though. A lot of big teams go through the motions in the group stage. Barca have done a professional job knowing it will be tougher to win the group with City in it as well.

Any realist would see third place as Celtics best chance of European football in the new year. Points against Barca and City will be most welcome but the games against Gladbach are probably their most important. 

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36 minutes ago, bute-killiefan said:

541 against Barcelona is asking for a thumping. No pressure, long balls forward to a lone striker. They weren't expected to win, but they handed Barcelona their arses on a plate tonight

I don't think it's nearly as simple as that. Plenty of sides go 5-4-1 and deploy the same tactics in the Nou Camp but don't struggle like that. It was a case of Barcelona obviously being the much better side but Celtic playing particularly poor defensively. If they had done their jobs right they might have prevented the score being quite as extreme.

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3 hours ago, Dieter's Heeder said:

I don't think it's nearly as simple as that. Plenty of sides go 5-4-1 and deploy the same tactics in the Nou Camp but don't struggle like that. It was a case of Barcelona obviously being the much better side but Celtic playing particularly poor defensively. If they had done their jobs right they might have prevented the score being quite as extreme.

 

I guess not, but to play a 5-4-1 they needed to press Barca a lot more than they did and force them to play long balls to the front 3. They didn't do that and were punished. To say that Barca were just better is letting Celtic off lightly. No one should lose 7-0 at any level, especially the CL

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