‘Les Bleuets’ Superstar Odsonne Edouard: “Continues to be prolific”, “Celtic did a number on PSG”

Last night’s double from Odsonne Edouard secured qualification for the French ‘Les Bleuets’ – the mini-blues – for the Under 21 Euros next year and perhaps more importantly from a Celtic perspective signalled the end to his post Covid ‘blues’ and a return to goalscoring form.

His two goals last night also made Odsonne a French record breaker. He’s now bagged 14 goals in 10 matches for the French Under 21s which surpasses the previous record held by none other that former Celtic striker Moussa Dembele who scored 13 goals in 23 matches.

Here’s some post match reaction after the France’s 3-1 win over Switzerland last night, with the goals available in our earlier article, which you can see HERE.

On retrouvera nos Bleuets en mars 2021 pour l’EURO Espoirs ! 🙌🇫🇷 #FiersdetreBleus pic.twitter.com/7MR2N2CDnR

— Equipe de France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) November 16, 2020

FT | France U21s 3-1 Switzerland U21s – mission accomplished by Les Bleuets, who had to win by 2 goals to top their qualifying group and be seeded for next spring’s European Championships. Odsonne Edouard continues to be prolific, but Mattéo Guendouzi the standout.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) November 16, 2020

Celtic did a number on PSG when they signed Odsonne Edouard for only €10 million. 66 goals and 33 assist in 139 matches for Celtic so far, 15 goals in 10 matches for France U21. They’ll get an incredible payday for him once he wants to move on.

— Maxi (@MaaxiAngelo) November 16, 2020

Well done Odsonne now comeback and do the same for Celtic .. We need you firing on all cylinders 🙏🍀

— celticghirl1888 (@celticghirl0106) November 17, 2020

Celticghirl is of course correct – we do need Odsonne Edouard firing on all cylinders starting on Saturday’s visit to Easter Road. With Ryan Christie, Tom Rogic and Moi Elyounoussi all hitting top form things can really start to motor forward for Celtic in what has been a frustrating season so far, if we can add a back on form Odsonne Edouard back into he mix.

At the start of the season most of us were looking to Edouard to be the top Bhoy in driving Celtic towards Ten-in-a-Row. Maybe we were right after all. Fingers crossed for Saturday then! Yesterday we talked about how the three want-away Celts – Christie, Ajer and Edouard – could all benefit Celtic by hitting top form in order to get the best move possible next summer, and also maximise the transfer fee Celtic can bering in from the sales. We pointed out that two from three were looking like doing just that and what was needed was a return to form from French Eddie. Hopefully that’s where we are this morning…