Deila aims to get Guidetti firing

After having notched 11 in 10 games, the 22-year-old Dutchman, on loan from Manchester City, has now gone five matches without a goal although ironically the result saw the Hoops stretch their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to five points over Dundee United and Aberdeen, with the latter playing Inverness on Sunday.

The Celtic boss, who hopes the calf knock which forced forward Anthony Stokes off early in the game is just a "small thing", acknowledged Guidetti's dip in form but backed him to return.

"He is struggling at the moment, you can see that," said the Norwegian.

"The only people who can do something about that is us so we have to work hard in training every day and see what we can do to get it going.

"We know that he can score goals, he has done it before.

"He hasn't become a bad player in a month. It is just small details that we are going to have to turn around.

"He will come back. My challenge, and his as well, will be to get that back as quickly as possible."

Celtic substitute Callum McGregor and Ross County's Filip Kiss both hit the woodwork but clear-cut chances, especially for the dominant home side, were few and far between.

"We had the ball for 90 minutes but we didn't manage to break them down," said Deila.

"We had so much possession we had to create more and that is what is disappointing today.

"We have opened a lot of teams and created a lot of chances but this time we didn't do it. That was most disappointing part."

Despite gaining a hard-fought point, Ross County dropped to the bottom of the table after being leapfrogged by St Mirren.

However, "mindful" that Celtic had won 5-0 up in Dingwall earlier in the season, Staggies boss Jim McIntyre said: "I am delighted. The players carried out the game plan very well.

"The last time against Celtic we tried to have a go and took a hammering so that was in the mind-set today.

"We had to be hard to beat and break down and they carried that our very well.

"I think it's important when you come to Parkhead that you grow into the game. At Dingwall we lost two goals in 12 minutes and Celtic have great quality so we were mindful of that fact.

"And the only result we could affect today was our own and we take the positives out of taking a point at Parkhead.

" I don't think many teams will come here and do that. St Mirren's results are irrelevant to us, we can only concentrate on ourselves.

"Is it disappointing? Of course it is, but I'm really pleased with what we've done today.

"The thing that's been letting us down is not winning games, but we haven't been taking a hammering off teams.

"It's been the odd goal here and there and we have to turn that to the odd goal in our favour."