Christie was Caley’s best player again on Saturday but couldn’t prevent them falling to a 1-0 defeat at home to 10-man St Johnstone. We played Molde two times in the qualifying for the Champions League with Dinamo Zagreb and we drew 1-1 and 3-3 – they got three penalties, but only scored one! I’m happy for him and for the whole team.
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John Rankin fired over for United just before the half-hour mark and it proved costly when Boyata nodded in Celtic’s second five minutes ahead of the interval. “Now we have suddenly turned it around in a month and that’s something we should be proud of”.
Now the Hoops have to try and forget about their Europa League woes for a week – and continue their crusade on the home front with a League Cup clash at Hearts and Aberdeen in the league in the next five days.
Dedryck Boyata, who redeemed himself after Thursday’s mistake with the second goal yesterday, said he feels Celtic can still celebrate a successful season. “Celtic Park is a big stadium to go round and today I didn’t feel for it”. We were very compact, structured and disciplined.
“And if you look around you, now it is Aberdeen having troubles but it’s not the same pressure as it is at Celtic”.
“You need character to do what we did today”.
“I think everybody understands that there’s more big games coming this week and we have to save players when we can”. “What I want to see is how I can help my team-mates and benefit Celtic”. “Everything can still happen if we pick ourselves up for the next games, then it’s going to be a different story”.
The former United striker said: “We were rubbish with a capital R”.
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But while he’s happy to still be getting regular first-team football in the Highlands, he admits he has already started studying Celtic every chance he gets to make sure he’s ready to hit the ground running when the call comes to summon him to Parkhead. After that I am not surprised Dundee United are bottom of the league because we don’t do things right. ‘This will be a really important week for us.
