Celtic bully decks Hibs as Lee Johnson's Angeball ingenuity has no shot against the comet man

Sometimes when the opponents are sitting deeper than the Mariana Trench and every potential gap is being closed as quickly as they appear, all you want is a proper beast of a centre-forward to go roaring into the penalty box, bully his marker so badly that the poor lad may need counselling afterwards – and connect with a header that goes screaming into the net with all the brutal force of a comet streaking through the atmosphere.

On a day when Celtic maintained their ridiculous run of domestic domination with yet another couple of late, late goals to see off dogged ten-man Hibs, Hyeongyu Oh – already a cult hero in the making – was the man doing the Tarzan impersonation to send poor Josh Campbell flying and score the crucial go-ahead goal inside the closing 10 minutes.

In a game where Ange Postecoglou’s men enjoyed nearly 80 per cent of the possession and were credited with a barely credible 35 shots, with nine of those on target, it’s always easy, in retrospect, to say that the killer blow felt like it was coming. But the truth was that, even with the visitors down to ten men following Elie Youan’s early sending-off, the home side didn’t always find the penetration to go with their easy circulation of the ball.

Part of that was down to personnel issues, obviously. They miss Aaron Mooy when he’s not there to operate in between the opposition defence and midfield. And the departure of Reo Hatate with an injury after just 12 minutes saw an equally important game breaker exit, stage left.

They were also up against a Hibs side who had prepared for this game by playing an outfield 10 against 15 opponents in training, in the hope of simulating Celtic’s swarming ability to occupy about six different areas at once. Lee