Deila hits out at lazy defending

Ronny Deila has claimed that lazy defending is costing his side goals and points.

An 85th minute goal from Paul Quinn handed Celtic their first domestic defeat of the season following a pattern of losing late goals and from set pieces.

Kilmarnock and Inverness Caley Thistle scored late goals against Celtic while Jo Inge Berget’s stoppage time goal for Malmo turned the tie around as the Swede’s ko’d Celtic from the Champions League.

In Sweden Celtic lost two goals from corner kicks with Quinn’s goal today coming from a free kick with little sign of a challenge from the Celtic defenders.

“In other games we have been leading and then got a bit lazy,” Deila claimed. “People have been coming over us, again it’s very disappointing to lose goals that way.

“I think that we have conceded a lot of goals from set pieces, that’s something that we’ve been working on but we have to work more to stop conceding goals that way.

“I’m very disappointed with the result, the first half was good, we controlled it and created chances, we were 1-0 up at the break and quite happy with that

“In the second half I think that we had control of the game until the penalty, I have to say it was a very very cheap one, it was a very easy penalty.

“After their red card I was very disappointed by what happened, A set piece is something that we should clear easily, we created more chances in the final minutes.

“When you see it he is straight onto goal and he is pulled, they got a man sent off we had the chance to win the game or at least get a point, then we gave away that point and its very disappointing.”

Referee Craig Thomson decided to yellow card Andrew Considine for dragging Leigh Griffiths down six yards from goal and decided that a free kick was sufficient after Kenny McLean kicked Mikael Lustig in the head in front of the Aberdeen dug out.