It’s no secret issues are removed from rosy at Parkhead, with fan protests throughout virtually each dwelling match.
O’Neill is in cost till the top of the season – his second interim spell on this chaotic marketing campaign – and cracks are beginning to seem regardless of the Northern Irishman’s legendary standing on the membership.
Supporters proceed to demand boardroom change, there are apparent holes in O’Neill’s squad and so they have now misplaced seven league matches. That is as many as they misplaced within the earlier two seasons mixed.
Celtic fell behind to Felix Passlack’s header and rallied to equalise by means of Benjamin Nygren’s 18th objective of the season, however went all the way down to 10 males when centre-back Auston Trusty was despatched off for violent conduct.
Kai Andrews fired in a late winner for Hibs, making it successive defeats for Celtic after Thursday’s Europa League reverse in opposition to Stuttgart.
“It is a setback, that is all it’s,” O’Neill mentioned. “We’re nonetheless within the race.
“I believed we had been completely terrific. The gamers put coronary heart and soul into the sport. No complaints on that aspect in any respect.
“We have been chasing for months now. There’s not a lot room for error however we are able to nonetheless struggle again. The gamers are disenchanted however it’s not over.”
Regardless of O’Neill’s defence of his gamers, others had been much less complimentary.
“All of it modified with Trusty’s sending off,” Bonner mentioned. “Hibs dealt with the sport very effectively after that.
“Celtic could not get any momentum and it is a good objective from Kai Andrews. Celtic did not create something. They ran out of luck.”
O’Neill introduced in Tomas Cvancara, Junior Adamu and Joel Mvuka to bolster his attacking choices in January, however Adamu was an unused substitute in opposition to Hibs and Mvuka wasn’t within the matchday squad.
“No doubt, there’s a lack of innovative at Celtic,” Stewart mentioned.
“What’s up with Adamu? They want a objective and so they placed on [Daizen] Maeda, who’s nowhere close to the degrees he was at earlier than.”
