Edouard scord twice as Brendan Rodgers’ Scottish Premiership champions Celtic beat Well 4-1 at Parkhead.
Stephen Robinson has admitted that his Motherwell side could not do much about Odsonne Edouard’s sublime goal in their 4-1 defeat to Celtic on Sunday, while speaking to the club’s official YouTube channel.
The Scottish Premiership champions put Thursday’s disappointing Europa League exit at Valencia behind them at Parkhead, scoring four times against a Well side who have been in impressive form so far in 2019.
Scott Sinclair and Oli Burke were on the score sheet but it was Edouard, Celtic’s £9 million record signing, who dominated the headlines.
The former PSG youngster scored twice, his second a glorious curling free-kick. And Robinson has insisted that Edouard showed his class from the dead ball, leaving Motherwell powerless to prevent him from finding the back of the net.
“I can take a lot of positives out of the performance. The third goal (from Eduoard) was an incredible goal. You can’t stop that. That’s why they paid a heck of a lot of money for him,” Robinson told Motherwell’s YouTube channel.
The disappointing thing is that we gave two goals away from a cross, two simplistic goals. They didn’t have to cut us open or create.”
The 21-year-old has had a mixed time in his first season as a permanent Celtic player, scoring 16 times but often finding himself on the bench with Brendan Rodgers preferring other options at centre-forward.
But, as he showed on Sunday, Edouard is one of the Scottish game’s most gifted players when he is on form.
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