Griffiths urging manager to stick with double act

LEIGH GRIFFITHS wants manager Neil Lennon to show faith in his strike partnership with Odsonne Edouard and let them grab the goals that pulls another title out of the fire.

The duo struck up a great double act towards the end of last term when scoring 15 goals in the ten games in which they were paired together.

With Edouard looking much more like himself, following a lacklustre spell of late, in the 3-0 victory at Hamilton yesterday, Griffiths believes the range of skills they bring as a partnership can get Celtic’s season moving again — if Lennon stays with it.

‘The gaffer knows what I can do. It’s just about trying to get that consistency again, especially the linking-up with Odsonne,’ said Griffiths.

‘You saw how good it was at the back end of last season and, hopefully, we can try to rediscover that now.

’We’ve been playing well and not getting the rub of the green at times, but the performances are coming together now. We look more assured and, hopefully, we can take that forward.

’Odsonne had quite a second half. He’s not been playing his football of late, but you saw how good he was today.

‘His link-up play, his hold-up play, his running off the ball was brilliant. Hopefully, that’s him turned the corner and we can get him firing again.

‘Let’s hope we can both put a run together, but we just need to take it game by game.

We’ve played well together the last two games and, hopefully, we’ll get the chance again on Wednesday to prove we deserve to be up there.

Griffiths accepts he is a different type of striker to Edouard, but sees that as a real strength.

‘I like to go in behind and he likes to come short to feet,’ he said. ‘It stretches defenders when they don’t know whether to stay with him or drop off.

‘I like to play on the shoulder and follow stuff in, so we complement each other well. With runners like Ryan (Christie), David (Turnbull) and Callum (McGregor) behind us, we’re an attacking side and we want to go and exploit that.

‘Hamilton was always going to be tough. The conditions didn’t help, but the way we played was excellent in the first half and we were unlucky not to go in one or two goals up.

‘We knew that if we kept knocking on the door in the second half, we’d get the goals in the end.

‘You saw it against Ross County as well, we were sharp and got seven or eight corners in the first ten minutes. We want to play on the front foot and get as many chances as we can.

‘If we can’t break teams down early on, we keep banging on the door like we did today. At half-time, we were nil-nil, but we came back out all guns blazing.’