Scottish Daily Mail

Title now on the line, admits Ronny after dismal display

We could still blow the title, admits Ronny

- By STEPHEN McGOWAN

best, so it is about details and getting the good feeling back again. ‘Right now I am very disappoint­ed. The whole team is very disappoint­ed and the whole performanc­e wasn’t good enough.’ Celtic fans loudly booed their team at full-time. ‘I understand the fans are irritated, like we are,’ said Deila. ‘The players understand it as well. I know Celtic fans will stay behind their team. ‘But we have to show ourselves as a better team than tonight. ‘This is my responsibi­lity. It is something we have to solve together, when the team is not performing, but of course it is straight on me. ‘We need to change it to get points and win the league. It was a bad performanc­e, we have to evaluate it and show ourselves a totally different side on Sunday (against Morton).’ Skipper Scott Brown admitted a single point was all Celtic deserved. ‘That’s been a few games now we’ve let ourselves down and it’s not been good enough football, it’s been long balls and we’ve not created a lot of chances,’ he said. ‘We’re devastated. We’ve let everyone down. It’s not good enough. We knew Aberdeen would win and it was on us to win. ‘We’ve not done ourselves any justice. Even if it’s not pretty football, we need to grind out a result. ‘We’ve got one point and that isn’t good enough for us at home. ‘We should be making this place a fortress like it used to be — and it’s not been that in recent months.’ Dundee are now eight games unbeaten ahead of Saturday’s Scottish Cup clash with Rangers at Ibrox and manager Hartley said: ‘It was a great team performanc­e. ‘The game plan worked and we could have nicked it at the end.’

RONNY DEILA last night admitted Celtic could blow the Premiershi­p title following their latest slip.

The champions followed Friday’s draw at Hamilton with a desperatel­y flat scoreless draw against Paul Hartley’s Dundee.

The Celtic board will now come under growing pressure to remove the Norwegian after Aberdeen closed the gap at the top of the Premiershi­p to four points. Just two wins in their last five league games have offered the Dons unexpected hope.

Asked if his team could lose the league unless they can lift themselves, Deila admitted: ‘Yes, yes, that’s for sure.

‘We have to be at a totally different level. But we also know how good we can be when we’re at our

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