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Deila: Scepovic will get among the goals

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Ronny DeilaRonny Deila is confident that Stefan Scepovic will soon be among the goals.

Celtic paid £2.2m to sign the striker from Sporting Gijon but so far he has been upstaged by the goals of Manchester City’s John Guidetti.

With Guidetti unavailable for the Europa League due to a mistake by Sandy Bryson of the SFA Scepovic is likely to feature in tonight’s Europa League tie against Dinamo Zagreb.

“We look at what is positive and also what are the negative aspects after every game,” Deila explained about Scepovic. “Stefan is a very clever boy. He knows he has to adapt to that kind of play but I think that the level of the Second Division in Spain, where he played last season, is at least as high as it is here in Scotland.

 “It is very important now that the new players adapt to the Scottish way of playing. John Guidetti has played in England with Manchester City, so he knows more about the game here but if you look at other leagues around the world you can see that that players often take time to settle.

“The Brazilian Neymar, for example, took his time before he did well with Barcelona. It will take the players time. It is the same as me coming in here as a coach. I didn’t know everything about Scotland. The new players have to settle down and start working with their team-mates. Then things will happen.”

Deila will make late decisions on the fitness of Jason Denayer and Kris Commons before naming his squad.

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