Next Up - Celtic At Fir Park

[texaco cup]

Our only chance we have is if everyone of our players are on their “A” game. Our forwards have to exploit Celtic’s zone marking at any set pieces we get. As LawSteelman says above we have lost 13 goals to them in the last three games. Playing 10 men behind the ball hasn’t worked previously so let’s press them higher up the pitch and see what happens. COYW

[Handsome_Devil]

Playing 10 men behind the ball hasn’t worked previously so let’s press them higher up the pitch and see what happens. COYW

Under 'peak Robinson' we drew three consecutive games at home to Celtic, the FP pumpings to them started when we pressed them higher up the pitch and tried to play more football. There obviously needs to be a balance between taking the game to them and being solid at the back but recent history suggests erring on the side of being more cautious gets a better result because as poor as they might be by their standards, they're still significantly better than us and therefore the more open the game the easier for them.

It's a fairly moot discussion in this case anyway because Alexander will never break from his own template when it basically suits playing the OF anyway - we will press when the chance is there and the second it looks like we're in bother we'll be back in a 4-5-1 variation challenging them to break us down.