Lennon wary of Sheridan threat

eil Lennon expects St Johnstone striker Cillian Sheridan to be looking to prove a point when he returns to Parkhead on Sunday. The 22-year-old Irishman had four years at Celtic as a youngster during which he had loan spells at Motherwell, Plymouth and the Perth club before he left to join Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia in 2010.Saints boss Derek McInnes snapped up the striker on another loan deal in the summer and he will lead the line on Sunday - with the Celtic boss wary."Cillian is still young player but when he is on form he can be unplayable at times," said Lennon."He can be a real handful and I think he might want to come here and prove a point."We felt the time was right for him to move on and he wanted to move om himself."I don't know how things have worked out over there (Bulgaria) but he is back in Scotland and he has been on loan at St Johnstone before, and had a pretty successful spell there."While Celtic failed to break down Sion's defence in the first-leg of their Europa League play-off at Parkhead on Thursday night, they will be firm favourites to continue their 100% record in the SPL by taking three points from St Johnstone, who have only one point from three games.However, Lennon knows they will have to get past a St Johnstone defence who will be every bit as resolute as that of the Swiss side who held out for a goalless draw.He said: "St Johnstone played very well here last year and it took us until the 90th minute to get the result we were looking for."They are pretty dogged at times and Derek has them well organised."They haven't made a great start to the season but again they will be difficult to break down."Skipper Scott Brown, who is "very close" to signing a new contract, insists the Hoops players have recovered from their Europa League disappointment."We were a wee bit down but at the end of the day we are still in it and we have another game to look forward to," said the Scotland midfielder."We didn't have the best game on Thursday but we still managed to keep a clean sheet and keep us in the tie."There is another 90 minutes to prove ourselves and I'm sure we will do that."But we have a big game coming up on Sunday so we have to concentrate on that first."

Source: Team_Talk