{"id":429746,"date":"2026-02-17T03:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:43:12","slug":"brad-lyons-embarrasses-his-kilmarnock-manager-neil-mccann-by-defending-celtics-stoppage-time-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429746\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lyons embarrasses his Kilmarnock manager Neil McCann by defending Celtic&#8217;s stoppage-time goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=67hailhail.com \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Add as preferred source on Google <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Finally, it seems as though there is some sense in the Kilmarnock dressing room after their defeat to Celtic on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dramatic ending at Rugby Park, with Julian Araujo netting a 97th-minute winner to the delight of the joyous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic<\/a> fans behind the goal.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/chris-sutton-slams-whinging-neil-mccann-for-moaning-at-stoppage-time-as-celtic-beat-kilmarnock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil McCann moaned at seven minutes<\/a> of added time being awarded, as he questioned where the officials got that from.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, one of the players in his dressing room, Brad Lyons, didn\u2019t use it as an excuse, accepted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/celtic-player-ratings-vs-kilmarnock-as-schmeichel-slacks-and-tounekti-shines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic deserved to beat Kilmarnock<\/a>, and explained why there were seven minutes awarded. <\/p>\n<p> Why have Celtic been able to score so many late goals this season? <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/67HH-4-819x1024.png\" alt=\"Celtic's late winners in the Premiership this season, Julian Araujo pic\" class=\"wp-image-362630\" \/>Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images       <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_4497-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Kilmarnock manager Neil McCann\" class=\"wp-image-362492\" \/>Kilmarnock manager Neil McCann \u2013 Credit: Kilmarnock FCBrad Lyons explains seven minutes of added time as Celtic beat Kilmarnock <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s baffling that there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/kris-boyd-backs-up-neil-mccann-rage-after-celtic-stoppage-time-winner-vs-kilmarnock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talk around these seven minutes<\/a> because the game was still level when the stoppage-time board went up.<\/p>\n<p>Killie, who are battling relegation this season, had been taking the game to Celtic all game long, and still had a chance to win it.<\/p>\n<p>But thankfully, Lyons saw the sensible side and told <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.kilmarnockfc.co.uk\/videos\/140008905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kilmarnock\u2019s official website<\/a> that moaning about those seven minutes is \u2018clutching at straws.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s embarrassing for McCann because he couldn\u2019t calm himself down after the game and see sense, yet his own player could. <\/p>\n<p>Not only that, Lyons rightfully mentioned that he went down with a head injury, which just increased the chances of a fair chunk of time being added on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, it\u2019s clutching at straws really,\u201d said Lyons. \u201cI think I went down with a head injury. Dom went down with a head injury. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a few subs and stuff, so we aren\u2019t blaming anyone. We are blaming ourselves for conceding those two late goals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add as preferred source on Google Finally, it seems as though there is some sense in the Kilmarnock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[157425,59,86662,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brad-lyons","tag-gb","tag-neil-mccann","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}