Premier League - Round-up: Celtic down Spurs

Eurosport - Sun, 26 Jul 21:39:00 2009

Celtic's second-string side warmed up for this week's Champions League qualifier by defeating Tottenham 2-0 to win the Wembley Cup and highlighting the problems facing Harry Redknapp.

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Victory, courtesy of goals by Chris Killen and Georgios Samaras (pictured), means Tony Mowbray's men won the friendly tournament ahead of Wednesday's clash against Dinamo Moscow and they have still not conceded a goal in four pre-season matches.

Spurs boss Redknapp, who has watched his side getting outplayed by two reserve sides during the tournament, has major worries at the heart of his defence as Ledley King, Jonathan Woodgate and Michael Dawson are sidelined, leaving no recognised centre-back.

It only took Celtic eight minutes to expose Spurs' fragile defence. Paul Caddis shifted past Benoit Assou-Ekotto on the right and whipped in a cross, with Killen getting in front of Chimbonda to plant his header past Heurelho Gomes.

Frenchman Dorian Dervite was fault for the second goal, courtesy of Samaras five minutes before the break.

Samaras was in his own half when he poked the ball past the 21-year-old and there was plenty of time to catch the Greece international, who was hardly known for his pace while at Manchester City for two years.

Instead, Samaras carried the ball into the penalty and executed a precise finish across Gomes.

In the day's other game in the London tournament, Barcelona beat Al Ahly 4-1 with Lionel Messi making a cameo appearance.

Sunderland secured an impressive 2-0 win over Atletico Madrid at the Amsterdam tournament on Sunday night thanks to two goals from Kieran Richardson.

The former Manchester United midfielder opened the scoring just before half-time from the penalty spot after Steed Malbranque was tripped by Juan Valera inside the area.

And Richardson doubled the Wearsiders' advantage with four minutes to go, coolly slotting home Carlos Edwards' pass from the edge of the area.

Atletico, fourth in La Liga last season, rarely threatened Martin Fulop's goal despite fielding Diego Forlan in the first half and Sergio Aguero after the break.

PA Sport

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  1. to be fair, a team of celtic reserves pumped a spurs­ team with 8 of its 11 first team.

    EPL are afraid of­ us, and rightly so...silly wee clubs.

    From ali k, on Mon 27 Jul 5:48PM

  2. Inverkenny #118...You are the funniest man in the world­ LMAO , You beat spurs in a friendly and you think your­ top dogs hahahahahahahhahahha. Oh and I think Man utd­ beat you easily in the champs league 3-0

    From Jamie, on Mon 27 Jul 5:44PM

  3. The game was a friendly and pretty much meaningless but­ it's still very very nice to win as many games as­ possible.

    10 changes from the game on Friday too is­ also quite heartening for the Celtic fans.

    As for the­ banter going back and forth, InverK pretty much sums it­ up with his last line ;-)

    From GEORGE, on Mon 27 Jul 2:28PM

  4. #106 mambles; bet you wish you'd thought up the­ 'pub team' jibe all by yourself...no doubt­ however, you'll get a lot of mileage out of it. Why­ don't you just copy and paste entire posts, that­ way you won't even have to tax your brain cell. BTW­ we eat our first born and pee sitting down, we eat­ boiled ham raw and torture haggis before it's­ killed to tenderise it.......but we still wiped the­ floor with you lot....live with it!

    From lysdexic, on Mon 27 Jul 10:07AM

  5. Celtic 2 spurs 0 get over it you english loudmouths,­ and when it really mattered you'll find Celtic­ still did the business, blackburn 2-0, Liverpool 2-0,­ leeds 2-1, man utd 1-0, your league aint the best, i­ think Barcelona and Celtic keep proving that point, if­ you cant beat a team from "a mickey mouse­ league" i'd keep my mouth shut.

    From inverkenny, on Mon 27 Jul 9:29AM

  6. wow celtic win one game and they think its great days­ ahead,sorry but scotish football is the joke of­ europe.spurs will come on strong where it really­ matters, the premiership.unlike celtic, still playing­ in the micky mouse league

    From peter, on Mon 27 Jul 8:55AM

  7. I am sure that he will get only 5 starts in half the­ season and some spanish club will snap him, where he­ will grow to become one of the top players.

    From Slyshooter, on Mon 27 Jul 8:50AM

  8. he score one goal in the final and set up two goals to­ round up his amazing peformance in CONCAF final match

    From Slyshooter, on Mon 27 Jul 8:46AM

  9. How come a player who is selected in the Mexico­ international team is not upto the standards of­ Tottenham's first team.

    Btw i am talking about Dos­ Santos

    From Slyshooter, on Mon 27 Jul 8:45AM

  10. Tottenham played a team who are being considered for­ the RYMAN league, and lost...

    From KCUFTHEU, on Mon 27 Jul 8:38AM

  11. Id be really worried if i were a Spurs fan as that was­ Celtic`s reserve side,with some of our 3rd team players­ getting a run out

    From richard s, on Mon 27 Jul 8:35AM

  12. well and truely beaten, first goal summed up our­ central defence problems, unmarked free header!!
    The­ young players looked promising in the second half­ though.
    To be honest Celtic were nothing special, we­ just never really played well and missed a couple of­ decent chances.

    From Wayne, on Mon 27 Jul 8:30AM

  13. I'm a Barca fan but I think Celtic deserved to win­ it becuse Barca played B squad and they were just­ better than Spurs.

    From Seb, on Mon 27 Jul 7:54AM

  14. Problems in defence, and not much time left to fix it !­ Attack could have been a lot better too, what kind of a­ season looms for Spurs ?? Hopefully only playing in a­ limited fashion for pre-season, but on track when­ season proper starts, COYS !

    From ispurs, on Mon 27 Jul 7:41AM

  15. 107 - They kicked Spurs' arse though!!

    From Singin' Ginger!!, on Mon 27 Jul 7:34AM

  16. celtic have a team of misfits.

    From THOMAS H, on Mon 27 Jul 7:02AM

  17. Harry's still got a lot of work to do; it's­ just not good enough losing to a scottish pub team -­ because that's what they all are in the land of the­ drunken, frock wearing transvestites (although they­ call them kilts to hide this penchant for wearing­ women's clothes).

    Sadly, it's also time to­ tell Ledley the 'bad news'.

    From mambles, on Mon 27 Jul 5:56AM

  18. get a life with the gerrard @#$% you manc!!!

    From brian d, on Mon 27 Jul 4:20AM
  19. Comment hidden due to its low rating. Show

    It's looking better and better for United so far­ this pre season.

    IF YOU LOVE FOOTBALL, BOO ME WHEN I­ GET THE BALL NEXT­ SEASON.

    I PLEADED INNOCENT AND GOT­ A LOAD OF MY PATSY­ ‘MATES’ TO PLEAD GUILTY. HA,­ HA.

    THEY’RE GOING DOWN­ AND I’M GOING BACK TO MY­ £100,000 A WEEK JOB. HA, HA.

    From Ronaldo in ten years time, on Mon 27 Jul 2:08AM

  20. This wasn't just a Celtic second string. We brought­ on 3 third string subs! McCourt should have made it­ 3-0. Spurs are in serious trouble. I realise this was­ a friendly but if that is all they can­ manage.......I'm not a big fan of the­ 'Premiership'. They are, for the most part,­ overpaid and overrated. Let's hope oursleves and­ the huns can do well in Europe, then we can try and get­ back some of the money that Setanta and Sky screwed us­ for this season.

    From John L, on Mon 27 Jul 12:53AM
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