Celtic cruised to a dominant 3-0 win over Hearts on Saturday to maintain their Scottish Premiership title bid.
It was arguably the Hoops’ greatest performance of the season, with Kyogo Furuhashi and Matt O’Riley both getting on the scoresheet.
The Japanese hitman broke the deadlock within four minutes, nodding home from a composed Reo Hatate cross.
O’Riley then played a sublime ball over the top for the striker to score from before getting in on the act himself.
The Danish midfielder got the opportunity to net from 12 yards late on in the game as Lawrence Shankland was penalised for a blatant handball.
The recently crowned PFA Scotland Player of the Year had a nightmare at Parkhead at the weekend, squandering numerous opportunities before the ball clearly hit his hand inside the box.
Surprisingly, Kevin Clancy waited for VAR to intervene before awarding the stone-wall penalty and when watching it on review, Shankland has admitted he had a chuckle.
He said: [Football Scotland] “I was laughing a wee bit when I saw it back.
“I couldn’t understand why I had handballed it. I thought, ‘How have I handballed that when the ball is so high?’. But it was a strong wrist. Zander Clark would have been proud of it.”
