“But for me now, we are just happy to improve as a team all the time and see where that leads us”.
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“I’ll always say we are going to win the league”.
“You need more movements in the box when you get crosses. It’s about scoring goals and we didn’t do that today”.
It has not hindered the team in the league, setting the pace in the domestic campaign, but it could limit his involvement in Glasgow and signals chinks in their armoury and adds extra pressures which Deila will hope his players can collectively exploit. But we need to be more effective.
“But these are positive things we can work on”. They both came off after an hour and the next two go on.
“We played well in the first half and should have scored one and could maybe have had four or five”, he told BBC Scotland.
“But we also know he has been consistent in the Premier League for a long time and he has a lot of qualities that we are looking for in matches like we saw against Hearts. I have done it for a lot of years but I am still very young with so much to learn”.
The champions were especially wasteful in the first-half with Kris Commons, Tom Rogic and top scorer Leigh Griffiths all missing opportunities with James Forrest’s drive which hit the inside of the post the closest thing to a goal.
Ambrose said he had no regrets being sent off in the clash.
Efe Ambrose’s sacrificial dismissal in the final minute of the game for hauling down Sam Nicholson may well have salvaged a point for Celtic since the player was haring down on goal, but there was a few frustration among the Hoops support that Callum Paterson escaped without further sanction despite a significant crime count against Forrest.
The Nigeria worldwide said he did not have any other option than to cause a professional foul and subsequently be sent off.
The Hoops utility player has missed the last three games with a thigh injury and Deila is not expecting him to be available until after Gordon Strachan’s side play their last Group A game against Gibraltar in Faro on October 11, three days after Poland’s visit to Hampden Park. You are at 0-0 in the 92nd minute, you make a bad touch, the boy goes through, you take man and ball if you can, if you can’t do that you take the man and he did it and saved his team a point.
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Then they got a few more experience and won nearly every game in the Championship.
