Nick Montgomery spoke to the media after Hibs held Celtic to a goalless draw at Easter Road. Here's everything the manager had to say.

Was that a well-earned point?

“I think so. I am extremely proud of the effort the boys put in against a team that went toe to toe with Atletico Madrid in midweek. I watched that game and thought they were excellent. I thought today we contained a lot of their threats and were resolute when we needed to be. In terms of us attacking, I thought we had the best chance of the game, other than Celtic hitting the crossbar. Lewis, who had a fantastic game, got caught out at the front post. 

“I cannot fault the boys effort and I thought at times we played some good stuff. I thought the boys were brave and courageous. Second half, we fixed a few problems from the first half. We weren’t quite seeing the pictures.  I have nothing but praise for them, it is not easy containing a team of that quality. I thought we did that really well, there were a couple of moments where we could maybe have chosen a better option. 

“Limiting them to four shots on target shows how well we did because they are a very, very good team. It is a work in progress. I am six, seven games in and we have shown some great improvement. I want to be a team that plays out from the back and a team that competes for second balls. 

“We don’t have any strikers that are six foot seven. That is not the way I want us to play.  All credit to the boys for following the game plan. There were a few hairy moments but we created them ourselves by not seeing the pictures. We fixed that at half time, pushed the full backs and once we got into that final third we probably just need that bit more quality and composure to find a pass. Towards the end they took off six quality players and put six quality players on so we needed to be concentrating for the full game and I thought we did that. 

Was Martin Boyle's chance the big moment for you?

“Probably the best chance of the game, fantastic cross from Jordan. Nine times out of ten Boyley scores that. He maybe anticipated that was going to bounce instead of catching it on the full. If he catches it on the full then it is the back of the net.  He will be disappointed with that but a draw is a fair result against a top class team and a coach in Brendan Rodgers who I have followed for a long time. 

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I played against his teams and they were always good footballing teams who liked to keep the ball and dominate with the ball.  Good to coach against him today. They are a very exciting team with a lot of quality. 

How does that set you up for a big week ahead?

“Just looking at Tuesday’s game against Ross County which will be a very tough one. The boys will be in tomorrow and we will review the game. The good things and the things we can improve on. Momentum is something people talk about and it is something we have started to build. Last week we had a disappointing result, we didn’t do well in transition moments. The different today was we all defended really well and as a team. That is why we came out with a clean sheet and a point against arguably the best team in the competition.”