Scotland: Mooy shines for the bhoys in green

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 St Johnstone 1 - 4 Celtic

Celtic restored a nine-point Scottish Premiership lead following a routine win at St Johnstone.

St Johnstone 1 - 4 Celtic

Rangers had cut the gap with their win on Saturday, but Celtic pulled away again thanks to Andrew Considine's own goal and a Kyogo Furuhashi effort putting them two up inside 22 minutes.

Drey Wright's fine strike brought St Johnstone back into it but Aaron Mooy's chip re-established Celtic's two-goal lead and David Turnbull added a late fourth after Considine was sent off.

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Another relegation for the club from Perth?

They remain seven points clear of the bottom two and played well in Perth, That only serves to highlight some of the quality Celtic produced on a difficult surface to deliver another Premiership win. Despite that decent performance, many at the club will be worried that they are about to fall into another nervy relegation battle.

Reaction 

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou told the media: "The pitch was one of the obstacles. As the game wore on, it just got harder and harder for the lads to get a foothold. We controlled the game really well early on. We scored a couple of good goals and some great movement. Disappointed we conceded, but again great reaction from the lads to go up the other end and get a third."

Becky, a Celtic fan from Manchester, gave thoughts on the match. She was very happy. "I'm very pleased it was an important game for us. The team knew it would be tough but we got the job done in a great way."

These Celtic fans clearly had a great day on the cold February Sunday afternoon.

Sean, a Celtic fan from Glasgow, added: "Another good win. The title moves that little bit closer."

Cameron, another Celtic fan, added: "I thought the red card maybe looked a tad harsh on first viewing. Was Considine really the last man? I'll watch the highlights with interest later. Not that it affected the result much, coming so late in the game. Also may be a bit harsh on the home side was the scoreline. A 3-goal defeat was maybe 1 or 2 more than we deserved, on the balance of play. On the whole, though, a satisfying Sunday for us to win comfortably on yet another horrible pitch. A few more like that, and we might win something."

St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson added: "It's not often you play against Celtic, have four shots on target and they score four goals. A couple of the goals we lost were poor but we did a lot of good things. The 4-1 score flatters them a little bit. I was quite pleased with parts of our game. We tried to squeeze them. If they peppered us on our 18-yard line they'd have scored quite a lot so we tried to keep them out of our box."

One St Johnstone fan was full of praise but had some criticism. He said: "Plenty to be posituve about but can never be happy to concede 4."

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