{"id":195098,"date":"2025-12-16T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195098\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:14:08","slug":"kenny-eyes-starting-opportunity-amid-celtic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195098\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny eyes starting opportunity amid Celtic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republic of Ireland international Johnny Kenny is hopeful of a starting Celtic berth as new manager Wilfried Nancy looks to overturn a dreadful start as manager.<\/p>\n

Celtic have lost all three matches under the Frenchman and face Dundee United at Tannadice on Wednesday looking to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat for the first time in almost half a century.<\/p>\n

The former Sligo Rovers and Shamrock Rovers striker made his international bow in the famous 3-2 win away to Hungary<\/a> last month during a period where he began to establish himself under interim managers Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney at club level.<\/p>\n

Kenny scored four goals under the pair including one in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final win over Rangers after returning from injury in October.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old came on as a first-half substitute for Kelechi Iheanacho during Sunday\u2019s abject 3-1 defeat by St Mirren in the Premier Sports Cup final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a hamstring injury likely to keep the former Leicester City striker sidelined, Kenny, who suffered a similar injury earlier this season, is eyeing a role from the start at Tannadice.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t like seeing any of my team-mates get injured as it\u2019s a team game,” Kenny said.<\/p>\n

“But hopefully it brings another opportunity for me to get a run in the side and hopefully perform and get us back winning games.<\/p>\n

“I think I proved the last time once I got in that I could score a few goals and obviously came out then. But if I get back in, I hope to do the same.”<\/p>\n

The Sligo native has stressed it is up to the players to study and implement their new manager\u2019s methods as he backed Nancy to come through a sticky start at Parkhead.<\/p>\n

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\nKenny celebrates scoring against Kilmarnock earlier this season<\/p>\n

Kenny is optimistic they will get to grips with the manager\u2019s system, which has seen Celtic switch to a back three with wing-backs and a box midfield.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s made changes and we just need to adapt and implement the changes on the pitch, and ultimately get results,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Every manager has different systems. You just need to get down and try and study and learn their system.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve really enjoyed it since the new manager has come in. Obviously the results are not what we wanted, but I can see it progressing over the next few weeks and getting the results we need.<\/p>\n

“We haven\u2019t had much time on the training pitch, since the manager came in we have played every three days, but I think we really are getting there and hopefully we can put it right.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think any player in there has turned their back on the manager. We are professionals, we\u2019re here to do a job and all get behind everyone in this building and we\u2019re all fully in it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Johnny Kenny is hopeful of a starting Celtic berth as new manager Wilfried Nancy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-195098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}