article_snippet.sent: For Celtic, a slow-burning season has seen Ronny Deila’s side raise Ronny Deila’s side game after a stuttering start and eventually rout Ronny Deila’s side nearest rivals.
article_snippet.sent: steady emergence under the Norwegian has seen Ronny Deila’s side swat aside second-placed Aberdeen 8-2 on aggregate over three matches and eradicate fourth-placed Dundee United 17-3 over the course of six games.
article_snippet.sent: Yet although Ronny Deila’s side have in recent times looked like an increasingly irresistible force in the race for the treble, it has been left to third-placed Inverness Caley Thistle to enhance third-placed Inverness Caley Thistle credentials as the team most likely to represent a potential stumbling block on Ronny Deila’s march towards history.
article_snippet.sent: On Saturday, Deila’s side were held to a draw by third-placed Inverness Caley Thistle.
article_snippet.sent: Yet while Celtic were surprisingly poor, the evidence from the weekend also suggests that Inverness possess a potent blend of passion and physicality which, more so than any other side in the country, seems to knock Deila’s men out of Deila’s men stride.
article_snippet.sent: For goalkeeper Craig Gordon, Saturday Deila’s 1-1 draw - which included a quick-fire goal from Leigh Griffiths (left) and one in immediate response Edward Ofere - served as a warning shot against complacency in the quest for a rare domestic clean sweep.