Last season there was a feeling that Leigh Griffiths and Moussa Dembele upset Celtic’s balance whenever they started together, an aspect that Brendan Rodgers has explained he went to work on over the summer.

The duo dovetailed during the weekend win over Ross County with Rodgers believing it was the best they had complimented one another together.

“We had a reflection on the game,” explained Rodgers. “We had lots of really good moments in the game. That was the best they had played together. Instead of playing on their own, we spent some work on it last week, looking at different movements patterns, playing with the two of them together.

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“But it is not just the two of them, it was the others that surrounded them. It is something that we thought about for last season coming into this season, ways in which we could evolve the play.

“I was fully aware before I came in here that a lot of teams were camped in at Celtic Park. You can still dominate the game, but if it is the same structure, the same all the time then it can be easy to read.

“So the idea was to try and have another system up our sleeve that we can play when we play against a team that plays a certain way so we can give them a problem. I thought they did that very well on the back of a really intense game at the weekend.

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“The two boys linked up really well. One was always occupying their defensive line, one was in the space alongside the two advanced midfield players, then we always had width. The players worked how we were set up very, very well. It was really positive in terms of how we played and showed that with more work and more development and more coaching they could do it even better.”