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11 hours ago, Scott7 said:

I hope you’re right but I doubt it. A generation of Scots has brain washed themselves into not being able to vote Conservative.

Long may it last.  

Having seen his apology, I'd play him.

56 minutes ago, onevision said:

Obviously will be dependent on his attitude when questioned about reason for delay with returning back, being dropped in the first instant and then afterwards at training etc....stick him on the bench at best.

Without knowing the answer to these questions, and more, it's difficult to answer.   A spell on the bench did work before with Morelos.

54 minutes ago, compo said:

We need an enforcer we get pushed out of to many games Naismith dominated in the middle and was out jumping or two centre halves at set pieces 

It wasn't the centre halves who were marking him. 

No but they should be a man down. That was deliberate handball and a second yellow.

Someone said on Reddit the Alfredo's mum's not well and he's in Colombia.  

19 hours ago, Bluedell said:

I'd find it more exciting playing against a team that aren't playing so well.

Braga were showing exceptional form when we played them.

1 hour ago, RabiDuck said:

Trying to understand the coefficient system and struggling somewhat!

 

At present Scotland have 27,875 points and are 14th.  We need to be in the top 15 for the second CL place.  That's the easy bit.

 

According to Wikipedia, points are awarded for various things, including 10,000 points for playing a game.  Something doesn't add up here!

 

In short, I think the situation is that if we outperform Copenhagen, or at least equal the performance of either Olympiakos or Basel, Scotland gain a second entry to the CL next season.  

 

Olympiakos play Wolves and Basel play either Salzburg or Frankfurt.  I'm not sure I see both of those sides qualifying through those games so we have a very good chance.

 

Of course, had Celtic done the business against Copenhagen, it would already be decided...

It's 27.875 points.  That's made up of the last five years scores.  The good thing for Scotland is we have a very low score of 3 from 2015/16 dropping off next which is lower than every country around us. 

As I understand it you get 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw (halved in the qualifiers).  There's also a bonus point for progressing to the next round.  The total is then divided by the number of clubs (in Scotland's case that's 4).   So for this round we got 5 points and Celtic scored 1, which means the Scottish score rose by 1.5 points (6/4).  

27 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

Don't want a German side or Shaktar. Don't think they're beatable and not too much glamour.

We tend to play well against German sides though.

8 minutes ago, MoodyBlue1872 said:

Not quite, if Olympiakos get to the semis and Basel the final, we'd only then get the one spot.

 

All we need to do is win the next game and it takes everything else out the equation apparantly with the top 15 teams getting qualification for the CL.  (info taken from dr but won't paste link here)

I thought we'd already clinched that second spot.  Still; those scenarios are long shots.

6 hours ago, barca72 said:

That's sour grapes, you know the rules going in to the game.

They didn't in 1972.  ?

4 minutes ago, craig said:

I’ve always found that rule a bit strange too.

 

away goals is fine but when in ET they should no longer count double.

We wouldn't have won the CWC in 1972 had that been the case.  

11 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

It’s about whether Celtic covered up criminality & by doing so allowed themselves to win honours they otherwise wouldn’t have achieved.  

That's a yes then.

5 hours ago, compo said:

Should we not be leading the cry of getting trophies stri6from them , if the boot was on the other foot they would be leading the charge 

You mean we should be acting like Tims?

Just now, DMAA said:

 

Never played Benfica, which is strange. It's worth noting that Benfica would obviously be a notable step up in quality from Braga and Sporting (albeit Braga's form is better). Having said that, Porto have just closed the gap in the league to 1 point.

I think Benfica were the first 'Latin' team we ever played.  Beat them 3-0 in Lisbon.  I've lost access to my Rangers database so can't confirm the date. 

Thanks for confirming; didn't think we'd ever played them in European competition.

3 hours ago, DMAA said:

Didn’t realise Sporting were still in this. Might as well have another Portuguese team ?

Benfica too; have we ever played them in European competition?

56 minutes ago, PoohBear said:

Brilliant ball too, the run was behind him, great awareness

Great ball from Hagi and an excellent finish;  Jack deserves credit for his part as well.

1 minute ago, ian1964 said:

The game is crying out for Aribo, we need someone to take on this defence

We've had three clear cut chances and several other openings.  We need someone to step to the plate.

7 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

You know what, I think that's a good penalty; struck very hard, into the corner.

 

Unfortunately, the 'keeper picked the correct side.

 

Missed opportunity.

It's too high.  Why can't any of our players keep the ball down?

Just now, compo said:

Yes I watch them on sky and BT  and I believe they are there for the taking 

I never watch them unless they are playing Rangers so I don't really know much about them but their results don't indicate any weakness.  Forms a strange thing though and there's still time for a swing in fortunes. 

15 hours ago, compo said:

The other mob are due a few bad results they are not as good as  their pals in the media keep spouting...

Do you watch them on a regular basis? 

52 minutes ago, compo said:

Did we have a man of the match vote for this game 

Going to be another easy one.

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

On Morelos, I have been eating humble pie for the first half of the season because his goalscoring has far exceeded my expectations. I have often pointed out that he looks very raw at times and technically poor. But he was outstanding in Europe and for most of the first half of the season. 

His form is poor but hopefully he'll get it back but I always say the most important attribute of any player is what's between his ears.   He seems to learn nothing.

Gerard had made some great substitutions this week, turning around the Braga game as well as this one but then decides to bring on Steve Davis to 'secure the game'.   I had a bad feeling as soon as he did that and frankly we deserve fuck all for such negativity.  The best way to defend a lead is to increase it; we were far superior than the opposition and should have been looking to bury them.