Oliver Burke and Vakoun Issouff Bayo could fashion a brilliant understanding for Celtic.
Whisper it, but Celtic could have an incredible partnership on their hands.
The Premiership leaders have signed two strikers this month so far and this partnership doesn’t involve any two forwards. It’s actually Oliver Burke, a left winger on loan from West Brom, and number nine Vakoun Issouf Bayo.
John Kennedy, one of Brendan Rodgers’s coaches, revealed this week that Bayo was looking sharp in training [Celic View]
He also mentioned that the Ivorian hitman was looking particularly dangerous from set pieces and crosses.
This is rather exciting for Celtic because Bayo – who managed 18 goals in Slovakia’s top flight this season, and nine of them headers – is clearly a dangerous man to have in the box.
And Rodgers now has a Gareth Bale-type winger to deliver the crosses that the 22-year-old thrives on.
Burke, who has been likened to Bale, has the power and delivery from out wide which could be brilliant for the Bhoys.
It isn’t an avenue of attack which Rodgers really has at the moment, and you have to assume that the Northern Irishman signed both players with the intention of adding an extra dimension.
It’ll be interesting to see if this is Rodgers’s plan of attack against Airdrie this evening.
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