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Opponent St Mirren
Score 2-0
Date 14/10/00
Venue Celtic Park

Celtic extended their lead at the summit of the SPL with a good win over newly promoted St Mirren. Didier Agathe made his competitive debut, and it was very convincing.

Celtic pounded on the pressure for the first half hour. With Agathe and Moravcik pounding the pressure it seemed only a matter of time before St Mirren cracked under the pressure. New bhoy Agathe was outpacing his marker time after time.

It was beginning to look like other weeks, we made chance after chance but couldn't score. But it paid off in the 34th minute when Chris Sutton headed home after an inch perfect Moravcik corner.

Later in the first half Celtic missed even more chances, but were coasting against the woeful St Mirren display. Half time came and there was still on goal in it. However, when the scores around the country were confirmed everything seemed all right again, and the hardest thing was to work out how many points we were soon to be ahead of Rangers.

Celtic made even more chances in the second half but didn't convert. But no one really minded. The second goal came in the 84th minute, with a 20 yard free kick hammer. Sliding into Scrimgours far post, and more than making amends for earlier goallessness.

There were a lot of good things to take from the performance. However Celtic are missing a lot of very good chances in the box. Against better opposition our defence would be challenged more, and this lack of goals may become important.

Generally, however, the game was good. Man of the match Didier Agathe looked very good and made chance after chance. In the second half he was dispossessed for the first time, and throughout the ball seemed glued to his toe. Good bhoys!