I think it’s safe to say that Ange Postecoglou’s ‘Ange Ball’ vision is in full swing now.
At Tannadice yesterday we delivered our highest-ever away league win in 134 years of competitive football with a scintillating 9-0 demolition of Jack Ross’s Dundee Utd.
Jota teed up Kyogo to pull the trigger and open the floodgates on 15 mins and the Japanese striker duly delivered a goal for the fourth game in succession.
The diminutive hitman then scored his second with a curling cracker into the top right-hand corner on 42 mins and sensing blood he delivered his hattrick five mins later as Liel Abada put it on a plate for him after a wonderful cross field pass was flighted in by the magnificent Matt O’Riley.
Incredibly the first half injury time scoring wasn’t done there and Jota got himself on the scoresheet as Abada and O’Riley combined again to leave the Portuguese winger with a point-blank finish.
Usually, teams drop down through the gears when they have such significant halftime leads but Ange’s mantra is ‘WE NEVER STOP’ and the agony was piled on even more in the second 45 mins.
O’Riley set up Abada after a beautiful reverse pass from Jota and the Israeli internationalist couldn’t miss on 50 mins with more not far behind as Josip Juranovic got in on the act as his effort found the net in the wake of a Matt O’Riley freekick that had rebounded off a Dundee Utd defensive wall on 55 mins.
Hatate got on the end of another masterful Jota pass to set up Abada for his second with a back-post tap-in on 59 mins and the walls had really caved in on Jack Ross’ side by this stage.
Abada got his own hattrick as he chipped home beautifully from a Maeda assist with 13 mins left to play and Car Starfelt headed home a bit of history with a fine finish from a Turnbull corner as the game entered the last ten mins.
It was quite simply magnificent and could have been more as Celtic rained down 30 shots on Carljohan Eriksson’s goal.
For Celtic, it was a day when the relentless creation of chances we have seen so many times finally paid off with an historic glut of goals whilst for Jack Ross this comes hot on the heels of a 7-0 European thrashing by AZ Alkmaar as well as 4-1 and 3-0 league trouncings by Hearts and St.Mirren.
Safe to say his time in the Tannadice hot-seat looks like it could be ending very soon.
....Always A Tim! 