Source: Team_Talk
Robson's return lifts Mowbray
The result left Mowbray's side a point behind Old Firm rivals Rangers at the top of the table.
A Co-operative Insurance Cup tie against Falkirk and a substitute appearance against Rapid Vienna in the Europa League was the sum total of the midfielder's season before Mowbray handed him an SPL start against the Fir Park side.
The Parkhead fans moaned and groaned their way through an afternoon of missed chances but the former Dundee United midfielder, battling back to full fitness from a groin injury which had kept him out for seven months, escaped most of the flak before fatigue saw him substituted by Zheng Zhi with just over 20 minutes remaining.
However, Robson may have done enough to secure a place in the side for the Europa League clash with Hamburg at Parkhead on Thursday night.
"Barry did very, very well," Mowbray said. "He possesses all the qualities I like as regards his character, his drive, his determination and his desire to win football matches and individual battles on the pitch.
"He needed game time and that's why he played."
Aside from watching Robson all but complete his rehabilitation, there must have been little else to encourage Mowbray.
With two wins in seven at Parkhead since taking over from Gordon Strachan in the summer, he has made the poorest start to the season at home for a new Celtic boss since Jimmy McGrory in 1946.
The Hoops have lost at Celtic Park to Dynamo Moscow and Arsenal and have been held by Rapid Vienna, Dundee United and Motherwell.
Their only home wins have come against St Johnstone and Hearts but Mowbray, happy to thrust statistics forward as evidence that his side had enough chances to beat Motherwell comfortably, was less enamoured when the subject of his home record was broached.
He said: "I'm not interested in Arsenal in the Champions League or Dynamo Moscow.
"We have drawn against Dundee United and Motherwell.
"You can throw stats at me all you want but our league form is fine."
Motherwell boss Jim Gannon, whose side have drawn with both halves of the Old Firm this season, is pleased by the way his team is shaping up.
"Over the last few months we have been getting a lot out of ourselves," he said.
"We are looking like a competitive side who can play good football and have every right to be confident that we can be competing at the right end of the table.
"The players were confident enough to play from the back against Celtic and that's what I want.
"The more they do it and the better they get at it, the more confident they will be."
