Celtic star Nicolas Kuhn admits that the Hoops learned their lesson from the league encounter against Aberdeen a fortnight ago…

Dismantling the Dons

Kuhn was instrumental in Brendan Rodgers’ side dismantling the Dons at Hampden Park last night which made it an illustrious 12 wins from 12 at the national stadium for the Celtic boss over his two spells as manager.

Directly involved in goals number three, four and five, Kuhn racked his tally up to 17 goal contributions in 14 competitive matches so far this season. That kind of form has established the German winger as becoming the most in form player in Scottish football during this campaign who has morphed into a talismanic figure for this ruthless Celtic squad.

Subsequently, Celtic’s 6-0 thumping of Jimmy Thelin’s team means in a month’s time the Hoops will go for a 22nd Scottish League Cup triumph and an historic 119th trophy in the club’s history.

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Notably, a 10th trophy win as Celtic manager for Brendan Rodgers awaits exemplifying the domestic success the Hoops have bestowed in recent seasons.

Brendan’s Unbeaten Hampden run

Whilst Rodgers ended Aberdeen’s domestic unbeaten run of 16 matches, he extended his sides stretch without a defeat in Scotland to 22 games. The start to the season could not have went any better for the Scottish champions both at home and on the continent.

Speaking to the mixed zone post-match Kuhn emphasised the lessons that were learned from Celtic’s draw with their League Cup semi-final opponents two weeks ago at Paradise.

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“I think, if you win 6-0, you don’t have to play better, but of course there are things to improve and we are going to do that.”

“We all knew we had to do better [from the Aberdeen league result]and today was the cup and the goal was to get into the final. We learned our lesson from the league game against them and today we scored some good goals”

“I think it can be a statement, but we just did really well and we focus on us. There is a still a long way to go, but we are going to focus on ourselves and, if we keep performing like this, everything is in our hands”

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Meanwhile, with the second semi-final kicking off at 3:00pm, either theRangers or Motherwell await in December’s final. The worry for whoever Celtic’s opponents is in the final is that yesterday evening’s result is not an isolated one. Brendan Rodgers’ side can inflict that kind of scoreline on any of their domestic challengers.

Conor Spence