James Forrest delighted with Celtic’s last-minute goal trait

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James Forrest’s delight at Celtic’s last-minute goal trait shows that even the players are surprised by it.

Celtic needed a 96th minute goal to seal three points against Dundee yesterday. Odsonne Edouard was the hero, and he also bagged a 90th minute winner against Hearts in Neil Lennon’s first game as interim manager.

Similar late strikes at Kilmarnock and St Johnstone over recent fixtures shows that Celtic clearly have a bit about them mentally.

This new trait has allowed the club to fly 10 points clear at the top of the Premiership. And even Forrest, who set up Edouard yesterday, can’t believe the club’s knack of stealing wins at the death. Speaking to the official Celtic website, the winger said the following:

“It’s unbelievable. We had half-chances earlier but it shows the resilience of the boys that we managed to keep going and get the goal at the end.

“It’s unbelievable. We had half-chances earlier but it shows the resilience of the boys that we managed to keep going and get the goal at the end.

“It’s massive to have that 10-point gap, but we just need to focus on ourselves and take it game by game. Teams aren’t going to make it easy for us and we’re going to have to go out there and win it. We want to get over the line and get there as quickly as we can.”

Sign of champions, but concerns still remain

The old “Sign of Champions” phrase will continuously be brought up, and rightly so. These last-minute goals have helped us earn eight additional points in recent matches. They’re vital, and a positive sign about the mentality.

But concerns still arise about the overall performances. As you would’ve expected after Brendan Rodgers’ departure, a little slump in displays has occured. But to perform so poorly at Dundee in particular was a bit of an eyebrow raiser.

Usually when the “Sign of Champions” tag gets wheeled out, it’s used to describe teams who have poor displays and still win. But, so far under Lennon in the Premiership, we’ve ONLY had poor displays. Big wins, for sure, but poor displays overall.

The team are clearly surprising themselves with their last-minute wins. It says so much about them that they keep going till the death. Anything other than three points against Dundee and the pressure was on. So to keep finding big goals at the end is monumental.

Hopefully, however, we don’t start relying on them. When Rangers visit Parkhead in two weeks, we don’t want a 0-0 heading into injury time. Celtic need to start slamming home the goals again, starting on March 31st.