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Jon Dahl Tomasson's side round off their Scotland camp with a clash against the champions at Celtic Park.

He's holding the ball up well and bringing others into play. BBD is put through on goal by a lovely Buckley ball but Hart tackles him outside the area. Carter then delivers a cross which is flicked on and almost turned in by BBD at the back post. Rovers break with fantastic speed and Gallagher fires at the goalkeeper but it's well saved. The dream start when Gallagher fired them ahead inside a minute. It's another quick start from Rovers and they should have a penalty. Gallagher wins the ball back and then beats Carter-Vickers too. Great work in the build-up. After a difficult first half, Rovers have been the better side the break. It remains 2-1 with 73 on the clock. First-team players were rested and will be back in the fold for their stiffest test of pre-season so far. A crowd of around 40,000 is expected to watch the Scottish champions, with Rovers also selling out their 1,500 away allocation.

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The Hoops are back at Parkhead for the first time this season as they welcome English Championship side Blackburn Rovers to Glasgow, with some concern ...

Postecoglou still names a strong Celtic XI regardless, with regulars like captain Callum McGregor, Kyogo Furuhasi, Jota, Liel Abada, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Joe Hart, Josip Juranovic and David Turnbull amongst those starting. Whether the pair miss out through injury or not is currently unknown. He's not made the squad though for their maiden match in Glasgow ahead of Premiership term 22/23 and striker Giorgos Giakoumakis also drops out, having scored in the friendly in Czech Republic.

Celtic suffered an early shot inside the first twenty seconds of the match against Blackburn Rovers this afternoon after an uncharacteristic loss of ...

It was no more than Celtic deserved with the Blackburn goal having been battered since the opening set-back. — Premier Sports (@PremierSportsTV)July 16, 2022 Sam Gallagher’s low shot went under Joe Hart to give the English side the lead.

Ange Postecoglou has picked his squad as the Hoops look to build their fitness with the new season in mind.

Manager Ange Postecoglou welcomes Jon Dahl Tomasson's side to Parkhead as both clubs look to build their fitness for the upcoming season. Their pre-season so far has gone well with 3-3 draw with Rapid Vienna coming before that and a magnificent 7-0 win over Wiener Viktoria before that. From the cinch Premiership and League 2, to the Champions League and the Europa Conference League, we have every blade of grass covered.

Celtic can land their dream alternative to Rabbi Matondo by securing a transfer deal for Tyhrys Dolan.

He also racked up a shot on target percentage of 63.3%, which is higher than any other Blackburn player who scored at least one goal throughout the campaign. This highlights the attacking talent that he has at such a young age and outlined why he could be an exciting prospective addition to Ange Postecoglou’s squad for the future. Celtic have had a fairly busy summer transfer window in terms of the number of players that have moved in and out of the club.

And as such restrictions edge closer to home, with the English Premier League looking at following a similar path a Celtic supporter on our sister forum Celtic ...

Our football club should only be associated with healthy products but we advertise products that have ruined lives, families, careers and driven countless people to crime and suicide. And any such ban coming just as the game recovers from the effects of the Covid shutdown season would be particularly hard to take by clubs trying to balance the books. In the matches in Austria and Czech Republic in recent weeks the Celtic players have performed wearing shirts that did not display the club’s main sponsor’s branding due to advertising restrictions in these countries.

Celtic continued with their pre-season work on Saturday afternoon, drawing with Blackburn Rovers 2-2 at home.

The Portuguese winger really enjoyed himself out there today. He was taking men on, coming up with tricks, flicks, incisive passing and of course, came up with the classy finish to bring the Bhoys back into the match. Jota fired a beauty in off the post from the edge of the box to equalise before a deflected David Turnbull free-kick gave the Bhoys a lead.

Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou wants to go into the season with a more robust squad with added quality.

"We’re definitely going to add a couple of players,” he said. The Australian admitted the squad is "looking really good” but is keen to add more players. We had to be patient and that was much more important than rushing.

ANGE POSTECOGLOU says that he expects two more players to be added to his Celtic squad within the next week as he looks to land his major targets…

“He’s alright,” he said. We were at it, put a lot of pressure on and the reaction was excellent.” I’m confident we’re close to the end point in bringing in a couple which will help.

A sparkling show from Jota turned a regular run out against Championship Blackburn in to a glamour friendly. The £6.5m signing from Benfica departed the ...

Celtic have got serious firepower and they went up through the gears. David Turnbull’s deflected free kick made it 2-1 and there could have been a few more before the usual rake of changes took a bit of the shape out of the game and Ben Brereton Diaz stuck away a set piece to level for Blackburn Rovers with 15 minutes to go. Giorgos Giakoumakis is still come come in as sat this one out, but it was a familiar Celtic starting line up made up entirely of last season’s heroes. The Parkhead men have looked pretty slick in pre-season so far – clattering 14 goals in three games. Jota grabbed a superb leveller after Jon Dahl Tomasson’s Blackburn took a shock lead in just 20 second and ran amok for the rest of the time on the pitch. The 23-year-old tormented Rovers all day and even brought out a few party pieces, with an array of flicks and tricks.

Fans Supporting Foodbanks Scotland (FSFS) says it has been "blown away" by the abundance of food brought to Celtic Park.

The movement was borne out of the original Fans Supporting Foodbanks, which was created by fans from Liverpool and Everton in 2015. In all, supporters filled ten crates of donations for Riddrie Foodbank - ten times the amount the original Fans Supporting Foodbanks gathered on its first collection in Liverpool. He told the Record: "I was really surprised - I didn't expect people to have brought so much.

The Celtic boss has already signed up Jota, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Alexandro Bernabei and Ben Siegrist this summer. Now it looks like we're approaching the ...

I’m confident we’re close to the end point in bringing in a couple which will help. Named targets have been few and far between over the last week or so. “We’re working on that but would expect to do that in the next seven days.

Goals from Sam Gallagher and Ben Brereton Diaz earn Rovers a share of the spoils against the Scottish champions.

The Hoops boss after their 2-2 draw with Blackburn Rovers on Saturday afternoon.

There’s a lot of time to prepare with a few good solid weeks already in the bag and we have two more weeks now to get ready.” "The reality is we’ll play close to 60 games. "We had to be patient and that was much more important than rushing. He added: "We’re definitely going to add a couple of players. I thought the first half was good in terms of our competitiveness and our performance, both teams were at it and we conceded early but then we got a good grip of the game. In the second half it got scrappy but both teams made a lot of substitutions so it’s hard to get into the rhythm for the players coming on.

Paris Saint Germain reportedly believe that Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou was trying to drive down the asking price for highly-rated midfielder Edouard ...

That is according to the Independent, who claim that PSG feel Postecoglou was trying to drive down their valuation of Michut by insisting Celtic do not have any interest in him. Wide-ranging reports have suggested that Celtic want to pay around £2m for the 19-year-old, who PSG feel is not yet ready for Ligue 1 football. Having played in at least five league matches, he passed the threshold to receive a Ligue 1 winners’ medal last season. Paris Saint Germain reportedly believe that Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou was trying to drive down the asking price for highly-rated midfielder Edouard Michut by distancing the Scottish Premiership side with a move. Michut starred for PSG’s U19 team during their run to the UEFA Youth League quarter-final. I have an interest in every good footballer in the world, but there is a limited market which I can tap into.”

Ange Postecoglou admitted Celtic slowed down in the second-half of this afternoon's Blackburn Rovers friendly clash. Celts drew 2-2 thanks to goals from ...

Both the players coming on and the game itself so the second-half wasn't great as an exercise but that's the challenge with these games." "Both teams were at it, we obviously conceded early but after that I thought we got a good grip of the game. He praised his stars' movement and creativity with Jota and Matt O'Riley in particular impressing in the Glasgow sunshine.

Celtic are not pursuing a deal for Vitória Guimarães and Guinea-Bissau midfielder Alfa Semedo this summer, according to Anthony Joseph of Sky Sports.

Despite the fact that Celtic fans may be disappointed about the news about Semedo, fans of the club can be assured that the Scottish champions will be firing on all cylinders to bring in signings to strengthen their squad ahead of a Premiership and Champions League campaign. The news that Celtic are not actively pursuing a midfielder could potentially come as a blow to fans of the Scottish champions, who would like to see more signings in the middle of the park to help them with their defence of the league title this season. Reports in Portugal (via Football Scotland) have suggested that Celtic are looking at a deal to bring the midfielder to the Scottish Premiership club this summer.

1,000 Celts made the trip to the neutral Bosnia & Herzegovina based venue (Gradski Stadium), where the match was held on the instruction of UEFA due to crowd ...

Steven Gerrard has made an unexpected admission about Celtic manager, Ange Postecoglou, and the job he has done at Parkhead.

It is safe to say that he has proven a lot of critics wrong. Despite his considerable success in Japan and Australia, he had never managed a top flight club in Europe before this and many believed that he was not ready for the Celtic job. It is safe to say that Postecoglou has done an incredible job ever since arriving as the manager of Celtic last summer.

Calvin Bassey's propsed move from Rangers to Ajax in its final stages, while Hearts are frustrated in attempts to sign Lawrence Shankland.

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Giorgos Giakoumakis missed Celtic's game vs Blackburn Rovers despite no news about any injury and the mystery has now been solved.

Giakoumakis might not have had a great start to his Celtic career but he has certainly become one of their most important players since the turn of the year. “Gio has taken a couple of personal days because his missus is due to have a baby. Giakoumakis had featured for the Hoops just a few days ago and no news had emerged about him suffering an injury either.