Ange Postecoglou admitted he’s looking at targets to “round off our squad” as he praised his sizzling Celtic side for overcoming their Rugby Park hurdles to produce a five-star display against Scottish Premiership new-boys Kilmarnock.
The Parkhead boss was delighted with a spread of goals to continue a perfect start to the campaign as they leapfrogged rivals Rangers back to the top of the league table on goal difference. Kyogo, a Jota screamer, Moritz Jenz’s second in as many weeks and goals from substitutes Carl Starfelt and Giorgos Giakoumakis did the damage.
But Postecoglou is always striving to improve his champions squad and is still scouring the market for the quality additions who could do that. Speaking on BBC Scotland, the Hoops boss said: “We are probably looking at people to round off our squad. I still think if we can find a player or two who can play more than one position in the way we play I think that will help us. It's not in terms of a specific area, it's someone who will fit in with the group as well. We have a strong mentality within this group of players and anyone coming in has to have that as well."
Postecoglou confirmed scorer Jenz hasn’t suffered a serious injury after he was replaced by Starfelt who returned from the sidelines to notch his first goal for the club. And the Celtic boss said on Sky Sports: “On days like this you can just try and get through them, get your win and leave but that’s not the kind of football team we want to be.
“The game gives us an opportunity to play our football and try and be as dominating as we can and if it doesn’t work out it’s not because we haven’t intended to do so - we don’t need to make excuses at the end of it. We want to be a team that’s got multiple threats going forward.
“We spoke before the game about the challenges. It was a difficult day with the weather the way it is and the surface and the opposition trying to stop us. Our discipline and commitment to play our football was really good and we got the rewards for it.
“Our centre halves are contributing at the moment which is great but it’s not just the starting XI - guys coming off the bench. There’s no doubt about it, we want to be a team that scores goals and has multiple avenues to do that.
“There’s different ways you can score goals in a game of football and your position shouldn’t stop you from doing that. If you’re in that area you take your chances. It’s Carl Starfelt’s first goal for the club and I know he’s been trying hard so a memorable one for him.”
Asked about Jenz, he said: “I think Moritz is okay. I’m not sure what the actual issue was but he was moving okay after the game.”
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