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\nRangers took the Old Firm bragging rights at Parkhead<\/p>\n
Martin O’Neill will take stock as his future as Celtic boss came under further scrutiny following a 1-0 defeat by Rangers at Parkhead.<\/p>\n
The Light Blues cruised to a 3-0 Premier Sports Cup win over the Hoops at Ibrox last Sunday and, in the William Hill Premiership rematch, a first-half strike by Ryan Naderi took Derek McInnes\u2019 side to within two points of the Hoops at the top of the table going into the international break.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old O\u2019Neill, in his second spell as permanent manager after two stints as interim boss last season, was under growing pressure going into the game after the 3-1 loss to Ferencvaros at Parkhead on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
After another poor performance, he spoke about entering a period of self-reflection.<\/p>\n
The Derryman said: “I will reflect on the games.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ll obviously speak to the board. And you never know, they may want to speak to me. But yeah, I\u2019ll see. I\u2019ve got some time to do that.<\/p>\n
“I will have a look, try and get a couple of days away and see how it goes.”<\/p>\n
Asked what would happen if he reflected then decided he could not improve the team, O\u2019Neill replied: “By that time, I will promise you, I\u2019ll let you know.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ll have a look.”<\/p>\n
\nRangers took the Old Firm bragging rights at Parkhead<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill addressed the growing negativity within the Hoops support, saying: “Well, I think they\u2019re absolutely entitled.<\/p>\n
“I mentioned this to you on Friday, absolutely entitled to, of course.<\/p>\n
“And I\u2019m not immune from criticism. Far from it. Absolutely and utterly far from it.<\/p>\n
“I think there\u2019s every reason to ask, ‘can you turn this round? Can you change the whole thing?\u2019<\/p>\n
“We are, as I said, two points clear, so I have to kind of look at the bigger picture at this minute.<\/p>\n
“But I knew that we were in a big, big fight anyway, with both ourselves, Rangers, and Hearts again, who are far from out of anything.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a long season ahead. It\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve been questioned about my managerial time. So, yeah, I\u2019ll have a look at it. I will reflect and see.”<\/p>\n
McInnes claims Rangers should have won by more after controlling the second half in front of only Celtic supporters inside the ground, due to a ticket allocation spat between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
The boss spoke of having a growing “trust” in his players following a poor start to the season.<\/p>\n
He said: “I\u2019m absolutely delighted as I thought it was a thoroughly deserved three points. In the context of the season, it was very important.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019d have heard all about if we\u2019d lost and the gap was stretched to eight points at this early stage.<\/p>\n
“So it was important to close that gap and also \u2013 with such a young squad \u2013 having the belief and confidence to win a game in this environment.<\/p>\n
“Although we won 1-0, we should have scored more and added to it.<\/p>\n
“While it\u2019s 1-0, Celtic are always going to keep going in front of their own fans.<\/p>\n
“But we defended brilliantly as a team and winning here is another good reference point for us after last week.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s still early in the season, only September, and there\u2019s 80-odd points to play for, so no one is getting carried away.<\/p>\n
“But to back up last week\u2019s performance and result was really big for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O’Neill will take stock as his future as Celtic boss came under further scrutiny following a 1-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-630617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630617","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=630617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}