Celtic were dominant in the early stages and took the lead through Daizen Maeda but paid the price for some missed chances, notably from Republic of Ireland’s Johnny Kenny.<\/p>\n
United put the pressure on after the break and scored twice in three minutes through Krisztian Keresztes and Zac Spasford after Celtic failed to deal with some aerial balls.<\/p>\n
Maeda headed against the post from close range late on as Nancy found himself on the end of Celtic\u2019s first four-match losing streak since January 1978, during Jock Stein\u2019s final season in charge.<\/p>\n
When asked if he heard chants calling for him to leave, the 48-year-old said: “I heard it. And obviously, it\u2019s not easy to hear that. But I can understand their frustration too.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s new for me to have four losses in a row. This is also new for the players.<\/p>\n
“I can understand they are upset. But the only thing that I can tell them is that I think we had a good performance.<\/p>\n
“We are missing the goals that could have been good for us and we are still working on that to win the next game.<\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t have a lot of time to work but when we work, we do it well. And again, that was a good performance. But the result was not there.<\/p>\n
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\nWilfried Nancy pictured during the loss to Dundee United<\/p>\n
“We had the possibility to score many goals, because we had a lot of chances. And if we don\u2019t score, if we don\u2019t keep the game after that, the game is not over. That\u2019s why it\u2019s difficult to accept that, but this is the reality.”<\/p>\n
Nancy admitted his side need to be better at defending set-pieces but he added: “I can see every day improvements. I think we did a good game but in terms of results, it was not enough. Obviously I can understand why the fans are upset.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilfried Nancy understood Celtic fans’ anger after some demanded his exit following a fourth defeat in four games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-197629","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\/197629","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=197629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}