Celtic swept St Mirren aside this afternoon as a hat-trick from Gary Hooper and goals from Georgios Samaras and Dylan McGeough
Celtic came roaring out of the traps and blew St Mirren away this afternoon. Georgios Samaras got the show underway on 4 minutes when he collected the ball after Marc McAusland failed to make a clean connection on the ball. Samaras still had a lot to do and carried the ball into the box. With defenders closing in from all around the Greek striker placed his shot instead of going for power. St Mirren keeper, Craig Samson got a hand to the shot but the ball spun slowly towards goal and settled 8” over the line.
Four minutes later, a clearly confident Samaras drove into the St Mirren penalty box before cutting the ball left for Anthony Stokes, who’s fired cross was turned over the line from 3 yards by Gary Hooper.
Samaras was running the show but was hampered by a knock to the ankle which he took a few moments to recover from. This coincided with St Mirren’s best period of play as the visitors gained more possession and territorial advantage in the period before half time.
Celtic started the second half just as brightly as they did the first as Hooper and Kayal could both have added to the score, however, the third would arrive 8 minutes into the second half. Victor Wanyama played an excellent forward pass to Stokes who hit the goal line before cutting back for Gary Hooper. Hooper collected with his back to goal but spun and shot in a sweeping move that left Samson with no chance.
Hooper completed his hat-trick on 57 minutes when he tried to play a one-two with Stokes but the ball was returned by a defender, allowing him to chip the on-rushing Samson.
18-year-old Dylan McGeough made his first impact as a Celtic player minutes after replacing James Forrest when he collected the ball 10 yards in front of his own box, ran 70 yards into the St Mirren box, before creating space and despatching Celtic’s fifth goal. An unforgettable moment for the young player.
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I wonder if Sone Aluko’s financial worries affected his concentration levels there!
oh no, here’s their secret weapon on, the new messi, the new ronaldhino, the new rooney……
50 grand for 84 minutes. Was it worth it?
5 minutes plus, I think, 5 minutes added on time. A couple of lengthy stoppages recently.
Jobo
Mullet and Co says:
27 November, 2011 at 14:28
Gary Harkins has had some game
Correct…One of our own..
StMichaelsBhoy2 says:
27 November, 2011 at 14:28
“… Roddy Forsyth…”
Despicable, horrible weed of a “man”
Pressure on Sally now.
Aluko played them onside and he is taken off.
Five minutes to go.
How long left?
whistle goes when Killie have the ball
drop ball huns contest and win it
dignity indeed
Sone’s family stump up half, Celtic stump up double. Never scam a Nigerian!
No wonder man city sold David silva to killie he looks poor
COME ON HOLD ON KILLIE FFS!!!!
Killie holding ball well
Pascali & Sissoko have been superb……..
killie calm and taking the heat out of currants -mebbes they can do this mob
89 mins
1 min + added time
them just had a HUGE chance for an equilizer
Bedoya misses sitter good save maybe from Bell
4 gers off-side.
No flag.
Three minutes added time.
0n 90 mins now + 3
16 mins added on
34 minutes injury time
3 mins stoppage time
3mins added time
Well Kane isnae able.
Only 3 minutes of stoppage time! Shocker!
Jobo
Killie singing “go home ya huns ”
i trust the full force of the law will be brought to bear against such egregious offensive behaviour
btw
Killie1-HUNS 0…FT
suddenly 12 becomes 4
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…we`re behind you
very interesting to watch the new huns this season
a couple of injuries and they have weans, trumpets and balloons in reserve
So the Fat PLG blows a 15 point lead in the space of 3 weeks.
See what happens when you don’t have your first 11 Fat man.
Tick tock.
This must be the best weekend to be a Celt in a while.
Sone wants his money back.
And then it was 4.
Kilmarnock 1 Rangers 0
Server crashes. Just like old times.
Agent Aluko return to base – mission accomplished!
they are pish , bottle crashing down Govan way , a few injuries and they have nothing .
We need to keep playing as we are and win our next 2 games Dun Utd and Hearts
definet sigining of the billy boys at the end tut tut
Sweet.
Very sweet.
Just a wee bit of pressure….and a wee bit of luck.
I hope Ally doesn’t start ‘worrying’ now….
(How did “Seany” Aluko do? Did he get a shift???)
HHH.
CMON!!!!