Kennedy reflects on St Mirren defeat
Yesterday’s Development match against Blackburn Rovers meant that it was a very youthful side, with only Bahrudin Atajic and Patrik Twardzik over 18, that faced upto St Mirren.
The homeside included defender David Barron, former Celt Graham Carey and goalkeeper Chris Smith in their side but John Kennedy wasn’t putting the defeat down to a lack of experience.
“On another night we’d have handled things better,” the hoops coach stated. “The problem wasn’t St Mirren’s experienced players, we just never played as we can.
“Even without experience we can still be a match for any side. We believe in the young players and that’s why we play them even though we know there will be some inconsistencies.
“That’s something we have to work on, we’ll move on from this, highlight some things that we have to work on and in the long run that’s how you develop players.”
Kennedy added: “Mistakes were made, we were disappointed by the manner of the goals that we lost but the players have to learn from it, they know themselves that they were at fault. We have a lot to look at from the match.
“There were spells in the first half where we did well, we were bossing the game, winning the ball high up the pitch, I hoped that we’d kick on after going in front but it got a little bit flat, we stopped passing the ball around and never quite clicked.”
Despite the defeat Celtic remain three points behind league leaders Dundee United with three games in hand.
Celtic’s next match is at home to Inverness Caley Thistle on January 14 and is likely to be an afternoon kick off.
V ST. Mirren: Daniels: O’Connell, McNally, Findlay, P Twardzik: Atajic, McManus, Kidd, Lindsay, McMullan: Johnstone
SUBS: Fasan, Eadie, Kelleher, Donnelly, Henderson (McManus), Kirwan, McDonagh (McMullan)
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