Neil Lennon told his Celtic players they are not on holiday yet after they drew a blank against Hibernian. The Scottish Premiership leaders moved nine points ahead of Rangers with four games remaining, the first of which is at home to Kilmarnock on Saturday.

The former Celtic captain, put in charge until the end of the season after the departure of Brendan Rodgers to Leicester, has yet to lose in his nine games in charge and guided the club to a 3-0 win over Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final the previous week.

However after a goalless draw against Livingston, he was far from pleased with what he witnessed in Leith. “It was very frustrating, from quality players across the board,” said Lennon, who said the left-back Kieran Tierney could be out for the rest of the season with a hip and pelvis problem.

“I don’t know if there is anxiety there but there shouldn’t be. We need to approach the start of games as well as we did last week but we didn’t today and allowed Hibs to get a foothold.

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“If you are going for the title, the holidays aren’t here yet. Forget about the noise out there – ‘You can win it here, you can win it there’ – you have to win the game and that’s what’s angering me, because we are up and down at the minute.

“The attitude of some of the players is not making me happy but I have told them what I expect from here on in. We looked lackadaisical, lacked physicality at times, energy and quality. I am not getting panicky or anxious about anything. We are dictating our own destiny here and we have to dictate it a bit better than we did in the last two league games.

On Tierney, the manager said: “He is seeing a specialist on Thursday. He is in too much discomfort to play. We will have to go with what we are advised by the specialist. He has played for quite a while but he has got to the point where he is in too much pain.”

It was another fine result for Paul Heckingbottom, who replaced Lennon at Hibs in February and who has also yet to lose in nine league games, although Celtic knocked them out of the Cup.

Ofir Marciano made several key saves during an open game but it was far from one-sided. “I’m disappointed we didn’t win but really pleased with long parts of the game, which is what we are about and how we want to play,” Heckingbottom said. “I’m delighted for the players, proud of them.”