Celtic recorded their eleventh straight league win to keep the gap at the top to five points with an underwhelming performance in Paisley.
Truth be told there was only one team in it in the first half with the Buddies set -up to defend to a man and Celtic dominated proceedings.
On 22 mins Odsonne Edouard broke away and his attempted pass to McGregor in the box deflected onto the post before the Celtic midfielder knocked it into an empty net for a deserved lead.
Ten minutes later the French striker again bore down on the home sides goal and this time fed in Forrest who rounded St. Mirren keeper Vaclav Hladky and finished well from an acute angle to make it two.
You got the feeling we could fill our boots at that point and really extend the goal difference with the Paisley side looking completely beaten ten minutes before half time.
Alas, the game petered out in a similar fashion to most of our recent encounters as we became profligate in front of goal and generally seemed happy to just see it out and get the three points.
Edouard remains our outstanding attacking player but has a tendency to want to score the perfect goal every time and dither in front of goal.
Again we went with Forrest out on the left and Christie in a number ten role and both were nowhere near as effective as they were previous to that formation change.
Christie was pretty anonymous and Forrest even though he scored looks far more effective on the right.
St. Mirren scored a late equaliser in the dying embers out of nothing when a tired Jullien tackle led to a free kick on the edge of our box that was converted by young Cameron MacPherson after a big deflection off Celtic’s French defender looped over the wrong-footed Fraser Forster.
But there was never any real threat of us dropping the points and ultimately it was scant consolation for them.
Olivier Ntcham was given another runout and though undoubtedly a talented player there still seems to be a general apathy with his performances.
Indeed there is a bit of a malaise full stop with Celtic right now which we can only hope is arrested on Sunday against Rangers. They also just barely got over the line yesterday with a 1-0 win at home Kilmarnock.
I’ll do a full preview of that rather massive game tomorrow.
Until then I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.
....Always A Tim! 