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Nancy won't panic despite Hoops debut to forget

- BY RYAN MCDONALD

WILFRIED NANCY insists he's not ready to hit the panic button after a nightmare Celtic bow.

The Frenchman crashed to a 2-1 defeat to league leaders Hearts as Celts fell three points adrift of the Jambos.

Nancy pulled off a pre-match shock by ripping up the system and adopting his favoured 3-4-3 formation. It backfired as Claudio Braga and Oisin McEntee scored in each half to stun Parkhead, with Kieran Tierney's stoppage-time consolation coming far too late.

However, Nancy is adamant that the Hoops --who have a game in hand - can claw back the deficit.

He said: "Listen, the season is long. There are many games coming, "Okay, they have three points ahead. But for me, let's control what we can control.

"Today, if I talk about the results, we conceded two goals because we could have done better on the first goal. So it's on us.

"And the second goal, we could have done better.

"So this is what I call the performance. If we do better on this one, maybe they don't score.