Celtic 3 Killie 0

Celtic 3 Kilmarnock 0

Scorers: CELTIC: McGeady, Samaras, McGinn

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TONY MOWBRAY: I DON'T think there was a lot of difference between the game today and the game we playeed against Hearts on Wednesday night.

It was a similar performance, there were a similar number of chances created, but the difference was that the goals make it an easier game for everyone, I suppose. I'm not being smug when I say I judge the team on the performance they put in.

You're intelligent people, most of you, and you see it for yourselves.

The general performance of the team was very similar on both occasions.

It was good to see Georgios Samaras scoring but he certainly wasn't blasted by me.

He was encouraged by me to keep working, to keep doing the right things and to keep on getting into the right positions to score goals for us.

Marc-Antoine Fortune's been out for a long time but he came on and did well, showed a little bit, he can bring the ball in, make it stick up front and create chances.

But, like Danny Fox, it'll take him a little while to get himself up to speed. They've both been out for a period of time and the more minutes they get on the pitch the better it'll be for them both.

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JIM JEFFERIES: WE said before the game to the players not to get carried away by the hype about Celtic.

They're top of the league and they still have decent players and we knew we would need to have the belief and the bottle to hold on to the ball when we had it.

We didn't have it too often and even when we did we simply didn't keep it well enough. But I was at the Hearts game in midweek and I thought that Celtic simply carried on from where they left off that night.

If they'd taken their chances against Hearts they would have won 5-1 in the last half-hour alone and they were well up for it today.

We were well beaten today but Celtic started the game unbelievably well.

On that performance today they would certainly have beaten most of the teams in this league.

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