BBC Sportsound seemed keener to turn the conversation away from Celtic’s record breaking away win at Tannadice today and instead talk about theRangers, who will be the visitors to Celtic Park on Saturday lunchtime.
Celtic lost our first three away games last season but this year it’s a very different story and that’s why having played five games – three away from home – the Celts are sitting proudly at the top of the league looking down on theRangers after piling on the agony at Tannadice this afternoon.
Ange Postecoglou was asked about Saturday’s Glasgow Derby and reckons that it will be a decent game of football. “It’ll be a good game (against theRangers). They’re going really well, they’re a good side, so it will be a good quality football game.
“We’re looking forward to it but we’ve got Wednesday first, Ross County away in the cup. That’s not going to be an easy game so we’ve got to go there, give a good account of ourselves, and play our football, then build on that for theRangers game.”
And on Sky Sports he was able to talk about today’s record breaking win where het-tricks from Kyogo and Abada plus goals from Jota, Juranovic and Starfelt (again!) left Jack Ross with as sore a head as poor old Joe Hart, who was in the wars in the opening minutes at Tannadice and took a boot to the top of his head from Fletcher.
“We knew Dundee United were going through a tough spell so I guess we wanted to set our stall early and put them under pressure. In the end, we wore them down, and the quality of our goals were really good.
“It’s not about just going out to win a game of football, it’s about going out and playing our game irrespective of how the opposition set up. The boys were really good. There was a patch in the first half where we got a bit scrappy but we rectified that quickly and the rest of the game was good.”
“Kyogo’s been great, he’s such an important part of what we do, but it’s not just his goals, it’s the way he harasses the opponents. It’s his overall work-rate, all of our strikers work hard but they also get the rewards.
“Liel’s a fantastic young player. Everything we’ve asked of him in the last 12-14 months, he’s taken every challenge and he wants to learn and get better. It was a good game for him to come in because we knew he’d get plenty of the ball and it was great for him to get his goals,” Ange said.
🗣️ “He’s such an important part of what we do.”
Ange Postecoglou reacts to his side’s impressive 9-0 win away to Dundee United with high praise for Kyogo Furuhashi 🍀 pic.twitter.com/vXr1OtacAW
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) August 28, 2022
Absolutely unreal @CelticFC 👌💚👌no words just 9 goals ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ #dufccel #awaydays pic.twitter.com/qtEgb9LNuZ
— Jules (@Juliecelticmad) August 28, 2022
Just imagine Ange watching Kyogo play in Japan – admiring the smarts of a striker who can be offside one second, onside the next… & be so in control & so aware. Yep it’s the IQ you don’t see too often – no wonder he lured him to Scotland! The stuff of dreams! #AngeBall #CelticFC
— Brenton Speed (@BrentonSpeed) August 28, 2022
One of the interesting things about Ange's Celtic is how his players are happy to stand in offside positions because they know they will become onside as the play progresses. It just tears defensive structure to pieces.
— Jon Mackenzie (@Jon_Mackenzie) August 28, 2022
Because we didn’t get 10 Dundee Utd fans could always pretend to each other the previous nine didn’t matter.
— Celtic Wiki (@TheCelticWiki) August 28, 2022
