Celtic manager has said his side aren’t far away from being back to their best and becoming a real force again, after going on a run of just two wins in 11 games.
As quoted by the Glasgow Times, Lennon has faced heavy pressure in recent weeks due to poor results and performances, which have seen his side fall 11 points behind in the league, out of the Europa League will two games to spare and eliminated from the League Cup from the second round stage after a 2-0 defeat to Ross County. However, the Northern Irishman has stated that he feels like his squad isn’t far away from being back to their best again.
“I know it’s all about perspective and I don’t want to sound like a happy clapper, either, but I don’t think we are a million miles away from being a real force again and a good side.
“We’ve had a few hiccups to sort out and settle down defensively, but, overall, I’ve got to be pleased with what I got in Milan in terms of quality of performance.
“I think we lacked a little bit of physicality in certain moments. That’s all. We need to tackle better and we need to do the dirty bits of the game better.
“In the second half of the game over in Prague the week before, we dominated for 35 minutes after half-time, but it didn’t feel as though we were going to break Sparta down.”
The thing with these comments are Lennon is talking about spells in games where his side have been good. But at the end of the day, in football, you need to perform over 90 minutes to win games and we haven’t really done that too much this season, especially in recent months.
On Thursday night there were aspects to the game which Celtic improved in, going forward but in midfield and at the back it was just more of the same with errors costing us time and time again.
It comes to a stage where we can’t wait any longer to see this supposed ‘improvement’ and unfortunately, it already feels we have passed that.
