Having battled for fitness, Thomas Rogne may be required to keep Celtic's defensive record in rude health
TRADITION dictates that Celtic will never put defence before attack.
TRADITION dictates that Celtic will never put defence before attack.
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Dave Quinn
The mystical "Celtic Way" of playing has always been based on craft, not graft, yet in recent weeks, Neil Lennon has found a happy medium.
Since shipping three first-half goals in a calamitous 45-minute spell against Kilmarnock in October, Celtic's resurgence in the championship race has been based on their much-maligned defence finding a mean streak. In the nine subsequent Clydesdale Bank Premier League games, though, they have won eight and drawn one. Yet it is the goals against column that is perhaps most impressive. Fraser Forster's net has bulged just three times in that period, with the Englishman chasing a fifth successive clean sheet in the league against, ironically, Kilmarnock tomorrow.
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