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Brendan Rodgers hailed his jet setting stars for helping Celtic take advantage of Aberdeen and Rangers’ slip-ups to move clear at the top.
And the Hoops boss reckons they’re ready to crank up a gear in the title race after thumping Hearts 4-1 in Gorgie. Eight of Rodgers’ starting XI had only just returned from international duty days earlier with goalscorer Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate having travelled half the world with Japan.
But they dug deep to blow the Jambos away with a second half salvo. It came just a couple of hours after Rangers slipped up 1-1 at home to Dundee United and Aberdeen lost their first league game of the season at St Mirren. It all means Celtic are now three points clear of the Dons and a monster 11 ahead of Rangers after just 12 games. And Rodgers said: “I think if some of your nearest rivals drop points then you want to be able to take advantage of that even though it’s very early on.
“But it’s still always about your own self, having to perform. I think everyone recognises coming here with only 500-odd supporters who were absolutely brilliant.
“We heard them all night. Difficult conditions today for people travelling to games but for them to get there, give us that support and for us to reward them with a win was great. So, it’s a little gap now but as I said, we’ve just got to focus on ourselves and just keep increasing it.
“It’s keeping that mentality right to the very end. It’s another plus three goals for us that adds to the goal difference and that’s what we want to keep pushing for. The guys coming into the game affected it. It’s a great testament, I have to say, coming off the back of the travel that some of these guys have done.
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