Wednesday night’s top-of-the-table encounter could nudge the exit door open for the Parkhead manager. But it is folly to rule out another response to adversityAberdeen gain cause to regret what might gain been. A curiously dismal league flee from late September led to Derek McInnes’s team losing four out of five matches; they drew the odd one out. As they approach Wednesday evening’s meeting of Celtic,still within touching distance only six points behind the reigning champions, contentment over this position will be offset by frustration. This could be an altogether different, and genuinely exciting movie,not quite on the scale of Leicester City but similar in capturing a broader public opinion.
One of Celtic’s strengths in recent times has been an ability to respond after wounding events. Ronny Deila will unquestionably draw on that again, as the follow-up to a dreadful Hampden Sunday afternoon which saw Celtic bundled out of the League Cup by Ross County. This didn’t so much raise questions over Deila’s position as enhance the notion that his appointment was fundamentally flawed in the first dwelling.
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Source: theguardian.com