Celtic beat Hearts 7-1 to move four points clear

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Celtic defeated Hearts 7-1 at Parkhead to move four points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Celtic defeated Hearts 7-1 at Parkhead to move four points clear of Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership. The hosts scored twice in the opening ten minutes, with Kieran Tierney heading in from a Mika Baur corner, followed by Benjamin Nygren's deflected volley from another Baur delivery.

Callum Osmand, who scored the goal that secured Celtic's title five months earlier, marked his first start with a quickfire double. Osmand capitalised on a mistake to slot home before heading in after Camilo Duran was denied. Hearts pulled one back through Laurent Mendy, but their hopes of a comeback were damaged when Stephen Kingsley and Jamie McCart combined to turn the ball into their own net before half-time.

Duran curled in Celtic's sixth shortly after the restart, with Nygren adding a seventh late on. Hearts arrived as the division's top goalscorers with the opportunity to move two points behind the leaders, but produced slack defending throughout. Martin O'Neill's Celtic side demonstrated the quality required to claim the Premiership title against a Hearts team winless away from Edinburgh since January.

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Celtic inflict more misery on Hearts to seize advantage at top of Scottish PremiershipCeltic 7-1 Hearts: The hosts went four points clear of Rangers, who were held at Dundee on SaturdayIndependent Sport · 18 Oct, 18:22
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In this story: Celtic · Hearts · Rangers · Kieran Tierney · Callum Osmand · Benjamin Nygren · Mika Baur · Parkhead

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