Celtic relinquished top spot in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday after their 0-2 defeat at Livingston was coupled with their fierce rival’s 5-0 demolition of Hamilton.
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The defeat at the Tony Macaroni Arena was the Hoops’ first in the league this season and it leaves them trailing their Glasgow enemy by two points heading into the October international break.
After the match, Celtic captain Scott Brown told the club’s official website that he and the team will look back at the game to identify the shortcomings that need correcting, adding that the Hoops have recovered from similar scenarios in previous years to win titles. Celtic’s Twitter channel @CelticFC shared Brown’s post-match comments to its followers.
"It wasn’t our day, so we’ll go back and assess what went wrong and put it right."
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) October 7, 2019
Having won their first six games of the Premiership campaign, Neil Lennon’s side have subsequently drawn at Hibernian and lost to Livingston, whereas Rangers’ run of four straight wins following defeat in the Glasgow derby has propelled them to the top of the table.
The ‘Gers have scored 17 goals in that four-game winning run, whereas Celtic have netted just 10 times in their last six league games after scoring 12 in their first two.
Despite the pendulum swinging towards the Ibrox club, these Celtic fans on Twitter remained upbeat about their team’s prospects of winning a ninth consecutive league title this season:
We are allowed a bad day at the office, faithful through and through @ScottBrown8 #weareallryanchristie YNWA
— JoeMc67 (@Joem69Joseph) October 7, 2019
Early days in campaign onwards and upwards.
— Johncarlin1951 (@johncarlin1951) October 7, 2019
Defo wasnt our day , only a blip onwards to 9
— Dún Geimhin csc (@DunGeimhincsc) October 7, 2019
Learn & then move on. End of. No teams are going through this season without at least 2 losses each. Titles are won over a long season. It will still be ours at end of May 2020.
— Lindylou (@lindanoble0101) October 7, 2019
Some of our fans are spoiled rotten by our dominance. The minute we have a bad result it’s toys oot the pram. Keep on keeping on, Broony. We love you xx but I love scotty Sinclair more xx
— Clara (@Claramcg4) October 7, 2019
Absolutely, put it behind us and go again
— Tracey Jane Wallis (@tjwallis) October 7, 2019
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