Odsonne Edouard has been questioned a lot recently. Many have said he is lazy and not worth the supposed nine million pounds paid for him. I personally feel that both of these statements are entirely false. Edouard has proven many times that he is worth said transfer fee and so much more. I believe the problem is that some people cannot get their heads around the fact that a modern day striker does so much more than simply score goals. They need to be able to hold up the ball and bring other players into the game, as well as creating goals themselves.
His class was on show in yesterdays game against Motherwell as he scored two goals. Celtic went into the game trying to make it nine wins on the bounce domestically. With Rangers winning early on, the pressure was on for them to keep the gap at the top to eight points. From the beginning, Celtic dominated possession, with free-flowing football and looking likely to score at any minute. The opening came when a returning Kieran Tierney sprinted down the left hand-side and played the ball to Ryan Christie who whipped in a cross which was met by Scott Sinclair. The second goal came a mere six minutes later when Ewan Henderson put in a cross which was headed in by Edouard.
Into the second half and a bizarre situation unfolded when a Motherwell player, instead of playing the ball back to the Celtic goalkeeper after Celtic kicked the ball out of play due to Ryan Christie going down injured, decided to keep playing. This led to Motherwell scoring from a re-bound which caused the Celts to lose their perfect clean sheet record domestically in 2019.
This seemed to fire up Celtic as they would go onto score two excellent goals, one a sensational free-kick from Edouard and another a smart finish from substitute Oliver Burke.
On our way to make it 10 