Lennon angry at ‘wasteful’ Bhoys

NEIL LENNON described Celtic’s performance as “immature” and “wasteful” after a Dave Mackay goal secured a 1-0 win for St Johnstone yesterday, their first win at Parkhead in 13 years.

Peter Enckelman saved Kris Commons’ spot-kick in the third minute to enrage the Hoops boss, whose mood worsened when Mackay’s deflected shot on the hour mark sealed a miserable day for the Hoops, who hit the woodwork through Commons and substitute Paddy McCourt during an afternoon of missed chances.

Lennon was raging afterwards.

“I am angry, really angry,” he said. “We threw it away. We missed clear-cut chances, were complacent and wasteful in front of goal

“The longer the games goes on and it’s nil-nil, you give the opposition encouragement.

“I’m fed up with it and fed up with us missing penalties, that would have given us a real good start.

“In the final third again we were awful. It was immature.

“Paddy gets in and he has the whole goal to aim at and he hits the post and it bounces out to James Forrest and he panics and hits the defender.”

Arch-rivals Rangers took full-advantage of Celtic’s shock reversal to go top after a 3-0 win at Motherwell. Steven Naismith put the Gers in front after 20 minutes, Kyle Lafferty fired home a second on half-time and Gregg Wylde completed the scoring with his first senior goal five minutes from the end.

Rangers boss Ally McCoist said: “I’m really thrilled. One or two questions have been answered.

Elsewhere yesterday Kilmarnock and Hearts played out a scoreless draw while on Saturday Aberdeen beat Inverness 2-1, for whom Irish striker Richie Foran scored.

Dunfermline won 1-0 at Dundee United, while St Mirren beat Hibernian 2-1.