Ronny Deila found only a little respite as his Celtic side had to scrap for a point in their 1-1 Premiership draw with Dundee FC at Dens Park, yesterday.

The Norwegian manager was under pressure after the Hoops had crashed out of the Champions League play-off with a 2-1 aggregate defeat to Maribor in midweek, on the back of a 1-0 loss at Inverness the weekend before.

The visitors found themselves up against it again with less than a minute played when James McPake headed in a Philip Roberts corner and as the Parkhead side struggled to find rhythm, Roberts hit woodwork with a drive.

Substitute Leigh Griffiths, linked with a move to Hibernian, levelled 10 minutes after the break with a deflected drive and although Parkhead striker Anthony Stokes crashed a shot off the post, the home side spurned several chances to take the points.

Paul Hartley’s side are unbeaten in five league games and were applauded off the park by their fans whereas the Hoops supporters were less than impressed by the outcome.

Celtic found themselves under immediate pressure when Dundee won a corner with just seconds played.

When Roberts’s ball came in from the right, former Hibernian skipper McPake rose highest in the box to thunder in a header with Hoops midfielder Callum McGregor swinging and missing on the line.

Thereafter the game opened up.

Roberts left Parkhead left-back Emilio Izaguirre for dead as he burst into the box and Hoops keeper Craig Gordon got his finger tips on to the angled drive which hit the post before spinning to safety.

The champions remained vulnerable but the mood among the Hoops fans changed in the 55th minute when Griffiths took a pass from O’Connell at the edge of the box and drilled in a shot which was deflected off Thomas Konrad and past the keeper and into the far corner of the net.