Celtic comfortable as Brendan Rodgers' rotated pack extends the gap at the top of the table to eight points.
Celtic comfortably defeated Ross County 3-0 to go eight points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
Staggies manager Malky Mackay will have been hoping to keep it tight and bitty in the opening exchanges. However, this notion was blown out of the water when James Brown was shown a red card after a lengthy VAR check, following his reckless challenge on Yang Hyun-jun. The defender was originally shown a yellow card before the referee was instructed to go to his monitor to review the tackle.
Yang's countryman Oh Hyeon-gyu would have the ball in the net after a couple of half-chances, though technology would intervene once again to rule the goal out due to what it judged to be an early run by Daizen Maeda.Celtic huffed and puffed but mad a breakthrough in first-half stoppage time when David Turnbull hit a stinging shot from just outside the box, leaving Ross Laidlaw with no chance in the Ross County goal.
The second half was one-way sailing for the duration, thanks to the man advantage but Celtic were largely wasteful in front of goal, largely due to the spirited Laidlaw in between the sticks. The keeper had no chance with substitute Palma's stunning strike from range, with the goalscorer becoming the provider just a few minutes later as he found James Forrest in the box with a pinpoint cross.Playing second fiddle must be difficult to both deal with and attempt to change.
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