Celtic star had his best game all season

Celtic closed the hole on the high of the Scottish Premiership on an important Sunday.

The Hoops beat Kilmarnock 4-0 at Parkhead, with Johnny Kenny breaking the impasse and Kieran Tierney including a second aim simply after half-time earlier than Daen Maeda and Arne Engels from the penalty spot added a little bit of sparkle to the scoreline late on.

Hearts have been held to a 1-1 draw with Dundee United at Tynecastle, whereas the Hoops went into the worldwide break simply seven factors adrift of the leaders with a recreation in hand.

Since returning to the Parkhead dugout for the primary time in 20 years, Martin O’Neill has gone on a 4-0 profitable streak within the Premiership, eliminating Rangers within the League Cup semi-final at Hampden. The much less mentioned about Thursday’s Europa League recreation towards Midtjylland, the higher!

This victory taught the 73-year-old that irrespective of how lengthy he stays interim supervisor, he can depend on one Celtic participant particularly.

Will O’Neill stay at Celtic after the break?

After Sunday’s win, O’Neill admitted he “actually would not know” whether or not he will likely be in cost once more within the subsequent recreation, including that it could be “completely no downside for me” if the board appointed a everlasting supervisor through the worldwide break.

When Celtic return to motion later this month, they are going to journey to St Mirren after which Rotterdam for a repeat of the 1970 European Cup ultimate towards Feyenoord, however who will likely be accountable for these video games?

Now, is that Wilfried Nancy?

He’s at the moment the favourite to win the job, reportedly one of many membership’s high targets alongside Kieran McKenna, and might be just a little nearer to a transfer to Glasgow this weekend after Nancy’s Columbus Crew have been eradicated within the MLS play-offs by rivals FC Cincinnati on Saturday. This implies their season is over, and any choose might be expedited if he is somebody they really need.

No matter who sits in Paisley’s away dugout over the subsequent two weeks, it will likely be laborious to not be impressed by the performances of 1 Celtic participant particularly this weekend.

Celtic star enjoys finest day of season towards Kilmarnock

The Celtic medical employees could need to paraphrase Police Chief Brody from Jaws. “We want an even bigger remedy room!”

The Hoops are already with out Cameron Carter-Vickers, Alistair Johnston, Jota and Kelechi Hernach, with Hampden hero Callum Osmund struggling a long-term damage at Herning on Thursday and Marcelo Saracchi being stretchered off within the first half towards Kilmarnock.

This clearly is not splendid, however in fact it is a chance for others, and compatriot Auston Trusty has actually impressed within the absence of Carter-Vickers.

The American centre-back put in a powerful efficiency in final weekend’s semi-final victory over Rangers, however may have attracted much more consideration this Sunday with statistics to again up this declare.

As famous within the desk, the centre-half displayed an unimaginable protection on Sunday, rating first in duels in addition to correct passing and contact.

Then again, if we take into account solely Celtic gamers, no participant has racked up extra defensive actions, clearances and interceptions.

The Glasgow World famous that he had “inherited a wealth of kind” and famous that the 27-year-old gave the impression to be the right man to fill the sizeable Carter-Vickers-type gap on the again.

The defender, who was named Man of the Match, was described as “very nice” and was additionally described as “composed, dominant and aggressive” since Carter-Vickers suffered a long-term Achilles damage towards Sturm Graz.

In recognition of his efficiency, Trusty was recalled to the U.S. nationwide staff for friendlies towards Paraguay in Pennsylvania and Uruguay in Florida subsequent week.

Trusty hasn’t performed a single minute for the USMNT since final November, however that would very effectively change as Mauricio Pochettino continues to experiment main as much as the World Cup.

Returning to membership stage, Celtic will want Trusty to remain match, out there and match. As a result of frankly they don’t have any different selection and he’s staking his proper to stay an essential determine even when a brand new supervisor is appointed within the subsequent two weeks. This was indisputably one of the best day of his marketing campaign to this point.