Celtic 5 - 1 Dundee United: Celts have Commons touch
United are down in numbers, cruelly so, but there is an lan and a spirit in Peter Houston's side that Neil Lennon would have acknowledged. Celtic, though, dealt with the challenge and ran away as thunderously impressive winners.
It helps when you've got goal threat in so many different areas of the field, not just up front where Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes both started and scored, but also out wide where Kris Commons was an utter menace to the United defence with his long-range shooting and his clever little breaks, and also through the middle from where Ki Sung Yueng knocked in a gorgeous third goal, a rasping shot on the run that had Celtic Park in a state of high delirium.
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Hide AdAnd on the bench, also, from where another goal and two assists came. Celtic could even afford going into the game with the luxury of having Lionel Messi on the bench, or should that be Paddy McCourt. Frankly, given the eulogising of the Northern Ireland winger's performance against the Faroe Islands during the week you could be forgiven for thinking that McCourt was up there with the best in the world. Among the replacements he started, though.