Moussa: I’m after goalden season
MOUSSA DEMBELE says he is set to go on a season-long wrecking spree for Celtic.
The French striker has enjoyed a spectacular week with four goals in two games to sink Hibs and Aberdeen and move his team into the League Cup Final and clear at the Premiership summit.
Dembele missed the opening weeks of the season
KILMARNOCK hero Garry Hay reckons Steve Clarke could be the man to end Celtic’s domestic run.
The former Rugby Park full-back has been thrilled at the immediate impact made by the new gaffer.
Clarke’s first match in charge brought a grandstand finale and a hard-earned point from Rangers to lift Killie off the bottom of the table.
The tasks get no easier with a trip across Glasgow to face rampant Celtic at Parkhead tomorrow.
But Hay said: “Over the last few years Celtic have had the best players. Perhaps they didn’t have the best manager but they do now by a long way.
“Celtic are great to watch and devastating into the bargain. It makes it tough for anyone but they have to lose a game at some point surely.
“Killie need to go, have a structure and hopefully upset Celtic’s applecart.
“One or two teams have run them close recently and they have had to deal with an awful lot of fixtures in domestic competitions and Champions League. Hibs were excellent against them so it’s possible, albeit incredibly tough.
“Going 61 games unbeaten domestically is incredible so Celtic at their best makes it almost impossible. But you can’t always be at your best.
“There were a couple of accusations about the Killie players lacking fitness but that’s been dispelled at Ibrox.
“If you’re finishing strong there it shows that’s not the case.
“Generally you don’t have as much of the ball there so the last 20 minutes is when you’re entitled to get tired and can get picked off.
“But for Killie to finish so strong in that period and take the game by the scruff of the neck shows a fitness and a backbone.”