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‘Massive test’ for Celtic – O’Neillpublished at 14:56 BST
Celtic v St Mirren (15:00)
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill says fitness concerns around Kelechi Iheanacho is the reason the striker doesn’t start this afternoon.
“It’s as much to do with fitness as anything else,” O’Neill said.
“He came on [last week] and made a big, big difference to us. It was a case of maybe if he started he wouldn’t last the game so Tomas Cvancara stays at centre forward. At least we know of the substitutions we have, they can make a difference as well.
“This is a massive test for us. We come off a decent win against Dundee. St Mirren are flying high, have turned themselves round. The games we’ve had against St Mirren have been really difficult but I don’t think I need to pronounce that to the team.
“If I thought I was going to win the game in the 93rd minute I’d take it. Against Dundee we should have scored more goals in the first half, I felt it might come back to haunt us which it did do, but we did remarkably well to stick at it and win the game. Today might be exactly the same. If we have to wait until the 97th minute to win, I’ll take it all day long.
“I felt [at Tannadice] it was the first time we didn’t show the real desire. We haven’t had, for some considerable time, any room for error. We went to Dundee two weeks later and got the three points, I’m hoping that carries us in to today.”
