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“Most teams that play against Celtic are comfortable to leave them with possession as long as they don’t play through the lines,” former Celtic defender Jackie McNamara said. <\/p>\n
“They force them wide and say ‘we’ll deal with it’ because they don’t have a target man in the middle to win those headers.<\/p>\n
“If they did they would score many more goals but you can see with Kenny it’s not his game. He’s a second striker and not an out and out number nine.”<\/p>\n
Former Hearts striker Ryan Stevenson was similarly unimpressed by some of Celtic’s starters.<\/p>\n
“Martin will have learned a lot today about players who are on the fringes,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He and his backroom staff will have a meeting and they’ll say ‘he didn’t grasp his opportunity’ or ‘I don’t think he did well enough’ or ‘he did do well enough’.<\/p>\n
“James Forrest did well and Luke McCowan worked hard but there’s too many that have kind of gone through the motions.”<\/p>\n
Kenny himself hopes his goal can spark a better run of form before crucial matches in Europe against Bologna and Utrecht, either side of a Scottish Premiership trip to league leaders Hearts.<\/p>\n
“That’s the life of a striker, you need to be ready when something comes,” he said. “It’s been a tough few weeks. Every striker misses chances and hopefully I can go on a run.<\/p>\n
“We know we’re a good side. We’ve had a bit of a blip but we can only focus game by game and that’s Bologna on Thursday night.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n