An 87th minute goal from Jota calmed Celtic’s title nerves as Ange Postecoglou’s side took a decisive step towards winning the Premiership title.
Kyogo Furuhashi had given the hoops the lead with an 12th minute header but the longer than the game went with that lead some concerns started to build in.
Barry Ferguson and others had questioned the bottle of the Celtic players but an unbeaten run in the SPFL stretching back to September deserves respect.
Much nonsense been written about Celtic this week after 1 defeat in 30+ games domestically! Big win away on an ok pitch???
— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) April 24, 2022
Joe Hart had no significant saves to make but with Kevin Clancy in charge Celtic players were given virtually no protection as the home side were awarded a succession of free kicks to launch into the Celtic penalty area.
With three of the regulation minutes left to play Liel Abada cut the ball back from the bye-line, Giorgos Giakoumakis saw his shot touched onto the bar with Jota getting in front of Connor Randall to net in front of the delighted travelling support.
Celtic now have four matches left to play, three of them at home with a six point lead and massive goal difference advantage over their second placed rivals.
EXCLUSIVE! Barry Ferguson questions Celtic title bottle as Rangers legend poses ‘self doubt’ scenario | Keith Jacksonhttps://t.co/VtNXzBHnCL pic.twitter.com/KyvSi6vPxT
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) April 22, 2022
A month after losing to Celtic in the Scottish Cup Ferguson walked away from managing Alloa Athletic.
Even by the biased hun media standards , the hysteria about our teams bottle going into this game after losing one game was outrageous stuff .
Superb stuff back to winning ways,now for the media tea boys having to work some overtime now to spin some feelgood factor stories about sevco and a game of celebrity transfer bingo,to take heat out of our win today.
Bankrupt Bawwy does it again.
Unsurpassed dignity and all that!
Talk’s fine from the bawbag f@ckuson but its action that counts. What we’ve achieved since Ange coming in the summer has been just CHAMPION. C’mon a Hoops