For all their shortcomings this season, Celtic have never been out of contention in the Premiership and despite an imperfect performance at Dens, they found a way to win.<\/p>\n
They had lost on their three previous visits to the city this season, but started on the front foot and deservedly hit the front.<\/p>\n
After McCracken spilled Cvancara’s initial effort, a combination of Yang and Nygren bundled in.<\/p>\n
From there, it was wave after wave of Celtic attack, but as has been the case for the majority of this season, their starting striker failed to deliver.<\/p>\n
Cvancara shanked high and wide from about 25 yards out and then hit the post when good work from Daizen Maeda put the Czech Republic international through on goal.<\/p>\n
He failed to capitalise on another golden chance early in the second half and was replaced by Iheanacho just before the hour mark.<\/p>\n
His profligacy appeared to be costly when Murray swept home from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n
Celtic have now conceded in their past eight league matches, their longest run without a clean sheet in 20 years.<\/p>\n
And yet, with time running out, Marcelo Saracchi swung in a dangerous cross from the left and Iheanacho took advantage after Astley failed to clear.<\/p>\n
O’Neill spoke before kick-off about how still being in contention at full-time would constitute success. His team delivered, just.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all their shortcomings this season, Celtic have never been out of contention in the Premiership and despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-874208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116353527089223240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}