After six goals in his previous five games, it looked like it would not be Duran’s night in the fading Paisley light.<\/p>\n
His low shot was held by Chapman in Celtic’s immediate response to the opening goal and, after the VAR offside decision, Duran was denied at close range moments after Callum McGregor’s volley had been turned out by the St Mirren keeper.<\/p>\n
However, the Colombian showed tenacity to win the ball in St Mirren’s half in advance of his assist. Mheuka would take over from Duran and, as well as his offside goal, fired over.<\/p>\n
Scales atoned for his earlier spot-kick concession by superbly heading in Benjamin Nygren’s corner and almost mirrored that goal from the opposite side.<\/p>\n
Calvin Ramsay brilliantly stopped a certain second Celtic goal when blocking Yang’s shot after Chapman had been eliminated by Nygren’s pass, but Yang would have the last laugh. <\/p>\n
His replacement Sebastian Tounekti lacked composure with a similar chance he put wide wide.<\/p>\n
A trip to Perth to face St Johnstone beckons on Wednesday (20:00), a first McDiarmid Park visit for 16 months for the club and O’Neill’s first return to Perth as Celtic manager in 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After six goals in his previous five games, it looked like it would not be Duran’s night in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-837787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}