OLD HABITS Hoops still struggle with Euro hangover
TALKING CELTIC Lennon looks to stamp out any
Yet, for all that lennon’s blood pressure soared in tandem with the bucketful of errors that his youngsters made during the game, by the time the whistle had gone and he spoke to the media, he had cooled off.
However, with a fresh test away from the SPl on the horizon, it is unlikely he will be prepared to forget Saturday in a hurry.
With the Uefa Champions league looming and games against Barcelona, Spartak Moscow and Benfica coming up, he will want an edge to his side. lennon will want to see Fortser and lustig commanding rather than dithering, he will want to see Filip Twardzik know where he should be positionally and he will want to see chances converted rather than squandered.
Had that happened against Hibs, the visitors wouldn’t have had a hope at coming back in the game.
Celtic will point to the wood-wood work twice denyingng them, but there was also a hole as obvi-obvious as a missing ffrontront tooth that opened up when Victor Wanyama went off with a dead leg.
The midfield powerhouse hass only just turned 21. He is not that much older than Twardzik or Tony Watt, yet his significance to Celtic is difficult to overstate.
The club has putt a £10million pricetagtag on his head and wereere quick to rebuff a £6m6 offer from QPR last week, andan it is not hard to see why.
It isn’t coincidental that in his absence Hibs suddenly found a lifeline, although sshocking mistakes at the back pplayed as big a part.
But the easter Road side wwere allowed to come from behind not just once, but twice at Parkhead.
SloPPY habits can start to become entrenched, especially in a domestic season as odd as this one.
So to stop any repeats of Saturday’s bloopers, it may