Celtic will be looking to put a horrendous start to the Champions League behind them when they host Manchester City. Join The Roar from 4:45am (AEST) for live scores and commentary.
After starting their Champions League campaign in the worst way possible with a 7-nil loss to Barcelona, Celtic are in catch-up mode after just one fixture.
Currently atop the Scottish Premiership table, Celtic’s form has been inconsistent, being held to a draw with second-last placed Inverness CT in their last match.
Tom Rogic and Scott Sinclair gave Celtic the lead twice, but an 89th-minute equaliser denied the league leaders all three points.
Currently on top of their table, and coming off two 4-nil wins in a row, Manchester City are on fire.
City are five-out-of-five in the Premier League, including a 2-1 win over bitter rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Sergio Aguero is still out, but with the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Kelechi Iheanacho all in form for Pep Guardiola, Celtic will need something special to dispose of the English giants.
The last time Celtic and the Citizens clashed was back in 2009, in a club friendly that City won 2-1 at home.
Prediction
Manchester City are on form, and Celtic still haven’t found themselves after that devastating loss to Barcelona. Expect the Citizens to get all three points in Glasgow.
Celtic 0-2 Manchester City
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hogdriller
Roar Rookie
Agree, played well for a team that cost some $13million over the past two seasons against a team that cost some $550million over the same period. Mind you, the usual detractors of the SPL must be busy today?
BPLOL
Guest
Exactly RBB, But the beauty is it seems that we finally have more than 1 player capabable of delivering on each position on the pitch, and in regards to the centre if the park setup we have multiple options. What a time to be a socceroos supporter.
stu
Guest
By the way, Celtic played well against a top flight City.
AZ_RBB
Guest
The No.10 role contested/rotated/shared between Rogic and Mooy. Depending on the game and match situation, Mooy can always drop back be more box to box. The DM role will be hotly contested and it needs to be. Jedinak, Milligan and Luongo are the preferred choices. But I can see Irvine, Antonis and Amini pushing them for the next 2yrs leading up to Russia and 2019 Asian Cup. No doubt we have some exciting players going around. But end of the day it's all about delivering on the pitch.
BPLOL
Guest
It has the potential to relegate Luongo to the periphery, however currently for QPR he is playing the holding / more defensive role is he not? He has been travelling pretty good in that team as well as far as all the reports are concerned (granted they are mostly from Australian media outlets and may be extremely biased an I have only watched one game). So I definitely see an option for all 3 to play in the same midfield pairing. The real loser could be Jackson Irvine who has been having a great season so far but is behind both Mooy and Rogic as well as players like Terry Antonis, Mustafa Amini and others that I have obviously missed. However I personally feel that this is quite a good problem to have and can only be benifitial to football in Australia to have multiple midfield options that can all push each other for selection (it has not always been this way). Cheers.
DH
Guest
He and Mooy have much more talent on the ball than we have seen in Australia for a long time. Once that midfield pairing has a bit more time playing together for the National Team they will create a lot of goals. It relegates Luongo to the periphery unfortunately.
AZ_RBB
Guest
Can I just point out that a very decent portion of regulars on this forum wrote off Rogic years ago as someone who would never make it and always be injury prone. I couldn't be more glad that I kept my faith in him. He always showed technical ability beyond anything I've seen in Australia. I probably sound bitter and immature but I don't care.