Ex Scotland boss, Alex McLeish, has offered his opinion on why on loan Celtic defender Shane Duffy has struggled at Celtic Park this season. The former manager, now pundit for The Football Insider, has intimated that Duffy may be struggling with the style of play he has been asked to adapt to under Lennon and that he is possibly struggling with being in an attacking team which is a far cry from what he would have been used to with Brighton in the English Premier League.
McLeish said, “I think that has been a factor, definitely, because analysing, from my own point of view, his Brighton career, he was defending a lot and he was a real stalwart defender, that was a lot of his game.
“When you’re going to Celtic, you’re going to be in a team that has a lot of the ball and you have to use the ball so it is a little bit of a different type of football for Shane to adapt to but he’s no mug, he can pass the ball.
“He would expect teams to be on top of him all the time and defending a lot more than he is doing in the games, instead of attacking and then finding himself maybe a little bit vulnerable at the halfway line when a ball over the top could harm you.”