McCall salutes rampant Celtic

Stuart McCall admitted that his side had been swept away by Celtic as Neil Lennon’s side moved to the top of the SPL table following a 2-0 win at Fir Park.

Celtic attacked the home side with passion and purpose sealing the points thanks to first half goals from Gary Hooper and an og from Motherwell’s Adam Cummins deciding the points.

Hooper opened the scoring after 32 minutes with a brilliantly times run and finish to a Kris Commons cross that opened up the home defence.

“Today you saw a rampant Celtic side,” McCall admitted. “We actually started the game quite well but their movement was terrific, they are all comfortable on the ball.

“Look at the bench, that is the strongest they have been this season. If Celtic are playing well and they certainly played well today then nobody in this league will live with them, it’s a fact, we can’t get away from it. But it is not what we do against Celtic that will count.”

Neil Lennon was delighted with his side’s display even though he felt that they should have ran out more comfortable winners.

“We were brilliant from start to finish,” the Celtic boss said. “It should have been a lot more, but I’m delighted at the way we played. We defended well and, certainly, some of our attacking play was excellent.

“We could have made the game a lot more comfortable, but it was one-way traffic more or less. Once we adjusted to their system a wee bit, we were superb.

“Our front three, their movement, the midfield three were great and I have to say I was very impressed with the back four.”

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