Celtic striker Anthony Stokes said it would have been a disaster to drop points going into their big Old Firm clash with Rangers this weekend.
His side came desperately close to doing just that yesterday when only a late Gary Hooper winner claimed maximum points in a dramatic encounter against Dundee United at Tannadice.
“The last thing we wanted was to drop points ahead of the game against Rangers,” Stokes told the Evening Times. “So, from that point of view, it was a massive, massive result.
“It maybe looked as though that was going to be the case with the game at 1-1, and only a minute of normal time remaining, but we never gave up.
“When you play as well as we did, and you create as many chances, you`ve got to win,” the former Hibernian marksman added. “The manager said that is as well as we have played and I have to agree with him.
“Some of our football was fantastic. It would have been a huge blow had we not won the match.”
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