“He’s popped up again,” Martin O’Neill praises Celtic’s match winner in his post match media conference at Pittodrie…

A relieved Martin O’Neill spoke to the mainstream media after Celtic picked up the crucial three points at Pittodrie with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Aberdeen with goals from Kieran Tierney and  Benjamin Nygren. Here’s everything that was said…

Q: How significant is your squad in getting to this stage?

Martin O’Neill: “Substitutions in recent weeks have made big contributions to us, so that’s important for us. So our third game in six days, I knew it was going to be a tough game, it proved to be, but we saw it through in the end.”

Q: There are two players significantly that I’m sure you’d want to credit for getting the win. One’s the keeper and Nygren, 19 goals, he’s very much an unsung hero in this team?

Martin O’Neill: “Well I don’t know about that, whether he is unsung in that sense, he’s doing something that is the most difficult thing in the game, to score goals. He’s popped up again, it proved to be the winning goal. The goalkeeper made a really great save and has absolutely done fine in the matches that he’s played, in all three games.”

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