Stephen O’Donnell says limiting Celtic to few chance was key to Motherwell taking a point from the champions.Jon Obika’s late strike earned a point after Celtic scored one of two penalties awarded, with David Turnbull hitting the net in 84 minutes, after Liam Kelly had saved a 66th-minute effort from Luis Palma.O’Donnell says the defence was outstanding, but there wasn’t too much for Kelly to do – other than from his own team-mates.The Scotland keeper was called into action to save a diving header from O’Donnell in the first half, and then stopped Bevis Mugabi from scoring an own-goal in the second period – even if the defender’s tackle on Oh led to that first spot-kick award.O’Donnell said: “We’ve come here, we’ve been organised, off the back of a poor run of results, and that hasn’t changed, because we’ve not got a win.“But we showed a lot of togetherness, and we were competing – I think we’ve given too many teams a big head-start.“When you come to Parkhead they’re going to have a lot of the ball, but we limited them to, I think one save from Liam in the first half from me, and then a couple of long-range shots.“I knew my left-foot shot was going wide early on, but it would have been nice to score one at the right end.“I thought it was some diving header for the one at our end!“It was coming in, you throw your body, and Liam does what he does and makes great saves in big moments.“I thought we were pretty organised.“They had a couple of half-chances, but on the whole I thought we defended outstanding, and that’s not just from the goalkeeper or back five.”O’Donnell says Motherwell got away with one, in the sense that if Celtic are awarded two penalties it usually leads to a big score-line.He said: “The two penalties,
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