ODSONNE EDOUARD A LEVEL ABOVE
The 22-year-old Frenchman hit the ground running and then some as he bagged a hat-trick to get his season off to a flyer. The forward’s uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time made the havoc he wreaked here look almost effortless.
The dilemma for Celtic of course is that there is still a lot of time for Edouard to attract admiring glances with so long left in this extended transfer window, but however long he is here, we should all enjoy having him.
JEREMIE FRIMPONG AND GREG TAYLOR KEY TO CELTIC'S ATTACK
You know that your fullbacks are a pushing high up the park when one finds the other to score a tap-in, and the threat posed by Jeremie Frimpong and Greg Taylor was a hallmark of Celtic’s play here.
Frimpong was all energy, pace and invention, while Taylor helped himself to two assists in the first half as he picked out Edouard and then Frimpong.
Hamilton simply couldn’t live with the pace and invention of the two wide men, with the first four Celtic goals all coming from those areas.
HAMILTON’S ATTACKING INTENT ADMIRABLE, IF A LITTLE NAÏVE
Brian Rice is one of the game’s optimists, and his side certainly made a contest of the first half here in the attacking formation he sent them out in.
Unfortunately for Accies, the quality of the Celtic attack outshone the quality of their defending, and the similarities between the first four goals will have frustrated Rice and his team.
Still, they won’t be playing Celtic every week, and they showed enough in glimpses here to suggest they could again cause problems for other sides this season, when their own weaknesses in defence will perhaps not be as ruthlessly exposed as they were by the champions.
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