Mowbray not worried by cup struggle

20 January 2010 07:58
Celtic scored just once through Niall McGinn against their lowly opponents in the fourth-round tie at at Cappielow, but Mowbray was not concerned by the narrow margin of victory.[LNB]"Cup football is all about getting into the next round and we have managed to do that," he said.[LNB]"My heart wasn't in my mouth, I think we were reasonably comfortable.[LNB]"I genuinely don't think they threatened our goal too much in the 90 minutes.[LNB]"The second goal would have had us sitting comfortably but ultimately we didn't need that.[LNB]"It wasn't as fluent as it has been over the past few months and I don't think it was ever going to be the case.[LNB]"It was going to be a difficult night but we managed to get into the next round."[LNB]Morton boss James Grady said his side were undone when they switched off for a moment in the first half, but he will be happy if his players produce similar performances in the First Division.[LNB]Grady said: "We started well and we were up for it from the start.[LNB]"We contained Celtic for long spells but I have to look at the goal.[LNB]"It was a cheap goal to give away in terms of it came from a throw-in when Fortune was getting marked on the wrong side.[LNB]"It is a basic error.[LNB]"He gets along the by-line and we were exposed.[LNB]"But I'm proud of the players, they gave us everything they had and I said to them that if they give us that performance then most weeks we will win games in the First Division.[LNB]"They have to treat teams like Dunfermline, Inverness and Airdrie the way we treated Celtic and then we will get ourselves in to a more realistic position."[LNB][LNB]

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