Hatem Abd Elhamed was the unlikely goal hero of Celtic’s training session at Loughborough University.
The defender has still to score in a competitive match for Celtic but tucked a chance away in training that Tom Rogic or Ryan Christie would have been pleased with.
Pushing forward from his right-back berth he took the shot early, firing across goal from 25 yards out to leave the ‘keeper plucking at fresh air.
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Placement ?Hatem Abd Elhamed with a spectacular strike at training! ?
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Elhamed joined Celtic last July and immediately went into Mikael Lustig’s old position at right-back.
His conformation as a Celtic player was confirmed in the September win at Ibrox, imposing himself at right-back then moving into central defence to replace the injured Nir Bitton as Celtic achieved a win that set the early benchmark to 9-in-a-row.
An injury late on in the Europa League win away to Lazio took a three month chunk out of his season. With Jeremy Frimpong making his mark Neil Lennon has nothing to worry about over the right-back position in the season ahead.
