Neil Lennon: The Ross County defeat encapsulates the season
The Hoops boss says his side have played better than their opponents but have not been clinical in front of the goal.
were defeated in their Scottish Premiership match against
Ross Countyon Sunday.
Neil Lennon
’s side were dominant throughout the match but a series of lost opportunities prevented them from scoring against their opponents.
Jordan White’s strike in the 71st minute was enough for the Staggies to secure a 1-0 win over their rivals. In a post-match interview with
Sky Sports, Lennon has spoken about his team’s performance and says he’s sorry for letting the Celtic fans down.
"It’s a strange one. I think it sort of encapsulates the season really,
"We’ve dominated the game, we’ve missed some unbelievable chances and then we can’t defend a set play for some reason. After that, we missed another great couple of chances.
"It’s a head-scratcher tonight for sure, we were totally dominant.
"We came up here and won 5-0 and we didn’t play anywhere near as well as we did tonight, and we got nothing for it.
"It’s a difficult one to stomach at the moment."
Lennon added:
"I'm sorry [to the fans]. We've let them down again.
"It's not for the want of trying to win a game of football. So we're bitterly disappointed with that."
Asked about his team’s problems on set-pieces, Lennon responded:
"I can't do it for them,"
he said.
"It wasn't a problem for us last season but it's been a real problem this season with more or less the same personnel.
"You have got to want to go and head the ball, block runners. I don't see us getting any free headers in the opposition box but I have seen that plenty of times for us and it's not been good enough.
"We were zonal and (Diego) Laxalt has got a job to do on the block but it's just too easy. (Kristoffer) Ajer's there, (Scott) Brown's there, we have enough players to deal with it, and we haven't. It's not good enough.
"The ball has been in our box one or two times in the second half and we concede. There's a softness about us this season.
"We shouldn't be losing to the bottom team. We shouldn't be losing the manner of goal we lost again."
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