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Lenny hails ‘bonkers’ Samaras as potentially world class

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Neil Lennon Celtic newsDelighted Celtic boss Neil Lennon hailed match-winner Georgios Samaras after today’s derby win over Rangers.

The Greek striker scored his first SPL goals of the season to defeat Rangers and send Lennon’s makeshift team four points clear of Rangers.

Straight after the match the Celtic boss joined Charlie Nicholas, Neil McCann and David Tanner in the Sky Sports studio.

“The one thing about Sammy is that his inconsistency is consistent,” Lennon explained. “But on his day he can be as good as this, I’ve seen him play in World Cup’s like this.

“He definitely has fantastic attributes- we just need to get into his head a wee bit more that he can achieve it.

“I thought that he was unplayable today.”

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As Nicholas joined in, neatly avoiding stating the obvious about the goal hero, Lennon put the words into the Sky pundits mouth …’Bonkers’ Lennon smiled with the pundits in agreement.

“He was on his own basically,” Lennon added describing the build up to the penalty. “He has that athletisism to get away from people and the confidence to go and take the penalty

“I spoke to Gordon (Strachan) yesterday about him and he said ‘just let him play up there on his own’.

“I thought that he started the game very well and from then on.. He had the beating of Bougherra and Weir in the air most of the time. He played the two of them on his own brilliantlt.

“Like Charlie says he has all the attributes to be not just top class, world class. But it’s getting him to do that on a consistent basis.”

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  • Mike Bhoyle says:

    Sums Sammi up for me…totally frustrating….
    delighted with the way he played today…BUT…..

  • Patman says:

    To be fair to Sammy he was excellent. He has his critics, but nobody can take away from his, and in fact the whole team’s performances.

    I can’t remember the last time we went to ipox and looked that comfortable. For me, we controlled the match because of Biram Kayal who was magnificent.

    He was everywhere, breaking up Rangers’ play and passes, great example of his pressuring was in the 92nd minute when he ran the whole pitch to pressure the Rangers player in the gers own 6 yard box to win us a corner.

    MOTM for me Biram Kayal

    Closely followed by big Sammy

  • Joe McHugh says:

    I feared that Kayal started looking like Thomas Gravesen.

    But he kept the head, showed discipline and the value of controlled aggression.

    Referee Thomson over the piece played it very fair, but could easily have sent off Bougherra at the penalty.

    Not a clear goal scoring opportunity but a cynical calculated foul.

    I’m sure Robbie Keane will enjoy taking a look at the match

  • john fallon says:

    why was bouggie and Laffarse not red carded,
    also loved lenny;s dig at Nicholas, about not winning big games,
    nicholas said on sky yesterday that Lennon cannot win big games, charlie ur a fanny

  • trueblue says:

    aww cmon hes never world class lol its not been long since u lot gave him abuse after the ross county game short memories indeed .. ps one swallow doesnt make asummer theres along way to go yet

  • Joe McHugh says:

    Welcome to the party trueblue

    Lenny was joking when he mentioned that Samaras is world class- we know his limitations and enjoyed the moment.

    World class is an overused term as you are probably aware with John Fleck, Vladimir Weiss and Kirk Broadfoot to enjoy watching every week.

  • Bhoy oh Bhoy says:

    @ Joe- haha, you tell him! @ trueblue, hope you enjoyed the game ¦-)

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