Tom Rogic opened the scoring as Celtic thrashed the Scottish Premiership’s bottom club Dundee on Wednesday at Dens Park.
There are few players in Scottish football who can boast the quality of Tom Rogic.
Brendan Rodgers calls Celtic’s Australian play-maker the ‘Magic Man’ and anyone who watched the Hoops’ 5-0 thrashing of Dundee at Dens Park on Wednesday will understand why.
Rogic opened the scoring away at the Scottish Premiership’s bottom side with a sublime strike from the edge of the area, bending a left-footed shot into the top corner in magnificent fashion and topping it off with a strutting, Eric Cantona-style celebration.
Speaking to the Evening Times, Dundee manager Jim McIntyre lauded Rogic’s technical brilliance, but wondered aloud why his defenders gave the Celtic star so much time and space to execute this moment of quality.
“We know how Celtic like to flood forward, especially the full-backs, but we had to make contact in our half,” McIntyre said.
“I thought for the first 13 minutes we did that but Rogic’s goal, we have the man there and give four or five yards away – that’s too much with his quality.
“But you have to say what a finish – it is unbelievable.”
Celtic ran riot in the first half at Dens Park, Scott Sinclair, Odsonne Edouard and James Forrest also netting in the opening 45 before the resurgent Ryan Christie (below) added a fifth after the break as the Hoops eased off the gas.
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