Kilmarnock’s Mayo Finds Confidence in Narrow Celtic Loss

Lewis Mayo attributed Kilmarnock’s failure to secure another upset against Celtic to a lack of clinical finishing, yet he maintained that the team derived positives from their narrow defeat. Derek McInnes’ side was defeated 2-0 by the Glasgow club at Rugby Park on Sunday. This result came despite an impressive display in which Kilmarnock registered 18 shots at goal. “You can’t ever be pleased with getting beat, but you can take confidence from it,” defender Mayo stated. “With the level of performance that was there, we do think there was a real chance for us to get a good result, but I just think they punished us to a degree we didn’t punish them.” “I think the stats suggest that as well. The amount of shots we had, the shots we had blocked, would suggest we put them under as much pressure on their box than ours, maybe even more from us, but they came up with the clinical moments and we didn’t.” “We’ve had results against them before and that performance felt as good as any for large parts of it.” He further commented, “Again, it just comes down to that fine detail they produce, moments of quality, and we just couldn’t get the ball in the net, but it felt like it was coming for so long.”