The French midfielder opened the scoring for Celtic this afternoon.
John Kennedy has singled out Celtic midfielder Olivier Ntcham for praise.
The Hoops strolled into the quarter-final of the Scottish Cup this afternoon by banishing some old memories in winning 3-0 away to Clyde.
And it was Ntcham who got the scoring underway for Celtic, cutting in on the right-hand side and firing home from an acute angle outside the box.
The 24-year-old also found the net in a Premiership clash away to St Johnstone on January 29.
Celtic had a warm-weather training camp in Dubai during the winter break in Scotland, and Kennedy, Neil Lennon’s assistant, revealed after today’s win that the former Manchester City midfielder has been terrific since then.
He told BBC Sport: “Ntcham has been terrific – especially since the turn of the year before Christmas. He’s really kicked on since the training camp in Dubai. He’s showing with great desire and hunger, and it’s difficult to leave him out of the team.”
Ntcham, a £4.5 million signing in 2017 [BBC Sport], was the subject of some transfer speculation toward the end of the January transfer window, though nothing came of it.
And you can tell that he wasn’t bothered by it in the slightest, because when the interest was genuine last summer, and after Ntcham admitted that he was flattered by links to the likes of Marseille, his form initially dropped early in the season.
But Lennon and Kennedy have him on song at the moment and long may it last.
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