O'Neill on Hearts' advantage, handball rule & 'electric' Parkhead
Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has been speaking to the media before Saturday's title shootout at home to Hearts. O'Neill is "really looking forward" to the game and says: "We have to win it, Hearts don't, so the advantage is with them in that aspect. " Looking back on the 2-0 defeat at Dundee United in March, when it seemed like Celtic's title chances may be over, O'Neill says: "We've woken up, we're a better side now, a bit more confident about ourselves as well too.
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Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has been speaking to the media before Saturday's title shootout at home to Hearts . Here are the main points: O'Neill is "really looking forward" to the game and says: "We have to win it, Hearts don't, so the advantage is with them in that aspect. " The Northern Irishman insists his side will "go out all guns blazing to try and win".
Looking back on the 2-0 defeat at Dundee United in March, when it seemed like Celtic's title chances may be over, O'Neill says: "We've woken up, we're a better side now, a bit more confident about ourselves as well too. " He admits Celtic "have had things their own way in recent times" but have "shown they're up for the fight". O'Neill thinks the narrative around Celtic's controversial penalty winner at Fir Park in midweek has been "magnified because of the occasion".
The Celtic boss adds: "When you see it again properly it is a penalty. In the wider scheme of things, I think everybody should be looking at this. Throughout Europe we've seen penalties given, and we all think, that wouldn't have happened years ago, it wouldn't have done.