Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Dark Blues can build on Hoops show
WHEN Cammy Kerr saw Celtic take the ball to the corner flag with three or four minutes of Sunday’s Dens clash with Dundee still to go, he knew his team had given the championselect a game.
Like every other Dark Blues player, the 21-year-old first reaction to the final whistle a few minutes later was disappointment.
No matter how good the opposition, he’s never happy with a defeat. Now the dust has settled on the Hoops’ 2-1 victory, he admits, short of picking up points, Dundee could not have taken many more positives from those 90 minutes.
In short, if there is a way to lose a game, that’s exactly what the home team managed on this occasion and he believes the weekend performance is one that augurs well for the final two months of the season.
“I thought it was a good performance, especially the second half. The longer the game went on, I felt it looked as if we were going to sneak something,” said the full-back.
“Celtic had a spell when they kind of took control of the game and that is going to happen when you play these teams because they are quality.
“But I think we put a lot of pressure on them in the end. So, while we were obviously disappointed with the result, we could take a lot of confidence from the way we played.
“They did change their shape near the end and they did take the ball into the corner when there was a few minutes left on the clock and it’s not very often you see a Celtic team do that, so we should be encouraged.
“They took off a striker and put on another centre-half and that shows the intensity we were playing with and that we were fighting right to the end to take something from the game.
“I think we matched them for long periods. It was hard when they went into a two-goal lead because they sat on the game and they have the players who can do that. But we came back and they had to work.”
Kerr firmly believes the standard Dundee produced will, if repeated