Originally published at: Shaun Maloney explains why he didn't "have a go" at Celtic yesterday
Hibernian manager Shaun Maloney has explained why he didn’t attack Celtic as his negative approach left Ange Postecoglou frustrated. The Hoops manager launched a few digs towards Leith as he questioned post-match whether they even had a chance at goal [The National]. Yesterday’s 0-0 stalemate saw Celtic dominate the match with 61% possession and 13…
You saw some of the Hibs players celebrating the draw at the end of the match, for any football team I find that sad.
What is the point in starting with attack minded players I.e. strikers and wide men if you are going to sit in all game?
Unfortunately we are going to face many more games like that moving forward. Teams are happy to pick up a point against us and actually go out and play normal football against other teams in hope of sneaking a European spot come the end of the season.
For us, I think we need to start working on the training ground at how to get through these negative teams. An early goal is always ideal but not guaranteed. We have to adapt a more guilt edge approach where the wide men provide far better quality, the men off the ball make the opposition defenses work and our midfielders do more shooting on sight.
Goals win games and we have plenty of capable players to get them. It all just needs to click when we face boring teams 
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Maloney is talking mince he still had a target man Dodge and a USA striker on the bench so he could have attacked at the start of the match.
If he wanted to hurt Celtic then Sunday was a chance to do so
He didn’t want to lose the match so he worked all week on closing own space and getting lucky because if Rogic scores after 2 minutes that would have went out the window.
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