Daly celebrates win over Celtic

22 November 2009 15:31
Daly had been absent since April with a cruciate knee ligament injury but came off the bench in the second half of Sunday's SPL clash at Tannadice to head United level, before Darren Dods nodded home a 90th-minute winner.[LNB]Irish frontman Daly thanked manager Craig Levein for giving him his chance, after he expected to sit the match out.[LNB]And United's first victory over Celtic in 10 years was an occasion to celebrate for the home team.[LNB]"When you go a goal down it's always going to be tough against Celtic," said Daly. "But we showed great character and there were two great balls from Swanny [Danny Swanson] from the corners and me and Dodsy managed to get our heads on them.[LNB]"I'm just happy to be back and to be playing games like that and scoring goals, it's great.[LNB]"It's been seven months (since I last played) and this week I've been off with flu as well. I didn't really expect to be involved today but when the gaffer put me in the squad I was delighted and hopefully I've repaid him there."[LNB]Dods had fouled Barry Robson to hand Celtic a penalty which Robson, the former United captain, calmly slotted into the net.[LNB]But defender Dods made amends with his late winner.[LNB]Dods told ESPN: "I was disappointed to give away the penalty but I was delighted when Daly scored to put us back in the game.[LNB]"It's been 10 years since we last beat them so we're delighted to get the win."[LNB]United moved level with third-placed Hibernian with their win, two points behind Celtic and with a game in hand.[LNB]"We've got tough games coming up but we're just trying to keep on Hibs' tails at the moment," Dods said.[LNB]"We're trying to get ourselves up to third."[LNB]Rather than chasing down the Old Firm, Dods stressed: "We're trying to get in front of Hibs first."[LNB][LNB]

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