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Shamrock Rovers 0-7 Celtic

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Celtic powered their way to a 7-0 win over Shamrock Rovers in the final warm up match before facing Alashkert of Armenia in the first qualifying round of the Champions League.

On a sunny afternoon in Dublin it was one way traffic as Brendan Rodgers’ first choice side enjoyed an hour of action against effectively a Rovers reserve side after a 0-0 league draw away to Cork on Friday night.

5 1-0 Dembele opens the scoring

26 Edouard scores

34 McGregor scores 3-0

44 Edouard scores

56 Ntcham and Dembele tear through the Rovers defence down the left with McGregor racing in to net from inside the six yard box.

61 SUBSTITUTES: Bain (Gordon) Ralston (Hendry) Welsh (Simunovic), McInroy (Ajer), Miller (Tierney), Allan (Ntcham), Johnson (Forrest), Morgan (Edouard), Sinclair (McGregor), Christie (Dembele)

69 A great run in off the left wing by Sinclair, exchanged passes with Ryan Christie on the edge of the box and slotted past the keeper.

72 Great run from Morgan down the right, ran straight in on goal and simply rolled the ball past Alan Mannus into the net.

74 Sinclair in off the left wing strikes the bar from 20 yards out.

CELTIC: Gordon; Hendry, Ajer, Simunovic, Tierney; Forrest, Brown, Ntcham, McGregor; Edouard, Dembele

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