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Celtic manager Neil Lennon envious of Rangers' fixture pile-up
Neil Lennon has declared that he would rather his players had the burden of their Rangers counterparts, most of whom have been playing twice a week in domestic, Champions League and international matches.
Lennon was speaking after Rangers were forced to come from behind for the fourth time at home this season - Motherwell were the latest team to lose after leading the champions - to move three points ahead of the Parkhead side, who play their game in hand against Dundee United at Tannadice on Sunday afternoon.
Celtic have had no European involvement since August, when they were knocked out of the Europa League by Utrecht, and Lennon's complaint is that the lack of fixtures - plus the intrusion of international dates - has hindered the process of reconstruction in the east end of Glasgow.
"I do feel our games are spread out. That's the third international break we've had since the start of the season so I'm glad we don't have one now for quite a while and we can try to get a momentum going," said Lennon.
"You don't see the players for maybe 10 to 12 days - you can't really do the work you'd like to. We'd a wee bounce game in Dublin last week which kept them up to match speed - those players that needed a game. It was important for us to do that.
"The stop-start nature of the season makes what the players have done all the more impressive. People will say the players are fresher but those players who do go on international duty will play at least one game plus a hell of a lot of travelling.
"They are only back a day or to and have to go into a big game again. The level of performance has been good but I can understand what Rangers have to go through as well.
"Their workload has been very, very high. We did it as players and sometimes it's better to have the games as you can rest in between them anyway."
Rangers' 4-1 victory over Motherwell, who started the day in third place in the SPL, was another slow burning affair, with Walter Smith's players looking sluggish when they left the field a goal down at the interval, only moments after Nick Blackman crashed home a header off the crossbar from Jamie Murphy's cross.
Steven Naismith, though, has been Rangers' inspirational player for the last few games and he revived them again, this time when he played a one-two with Kyle Lafferty and forced the ball beyond Darren Randolph to score the first goal conceded by Motherwell away from home this season.
Naismith's strike signalled an extraordinary scoring burst and within two minutes Steven Davis put Rangers in front with a surge from midfield and a venomous drive into the top corner of the net from 18 yards.
Three minutes further into the proceedings Naismith crossed for Kenny Miller to beat Randolph with a flying header and before two more minutes had elapsed Vladimir Weiss exchanged passes with Lafferty, rounded Randolph and sliding home with his left foot.
At the other end of the table Hibernian - still without a manager - also had to come from behind when they conceded to a David Da Silva shot after the Portuguese forward had been put clear by Craig Bryson.
Hibs' unlikely saviour was Chris Hogg, who had only ever scored once for his club - against Kilmarnock, as it happens - and he equalised with a header from Derek Riordan's corner kick before netting the winner when he nodded Paul Hanlon's cross home.
The two bottom clubs fought out a draw in Paisley where Hamilton took a two goal lead over St Mirren with a well struck drive by Jonathan Routledge - his first for the Accies - and then with an improbable header from Colin Imrie, who was on the ground when he made contact to corkscrew the ball intio the net.
However, St Mirren responded with spirit when Michael Higdon spun on to a dropping corner kick to screw his shot low across the line.
Higdon pulled Saints level after Jure Travner made the dead ball line and struck a perfect cross for his team-mate to head home.
There was another draw at Inverness, where St Johnstone took the lead through Collin Samuel when he beat Ryan Esson with a low shot after nine minutes.
Caledonian Thistle, though, shared the points when Johnny Hayes equalised late in the proceedings.
There was no such relief for Aberdeen, beaten at home when Kevin Kyle's diving header gave Hearts a valuable victory.