Everything Ange Postecoglou had to say to Sky Sports in the immediate aftermath of Celtic's SPFL Premiership game against Hibernian at Easter Road...
How good a way was that to end the year?
Yeah, brilliant. Credit to the lads, we knew Hibs would have something about them today and especially at the start they came at us to their credit and their crowd were up for it. It's brilliant to see that in those circumstances we just stay strong and play our football - as I said before, it's not an easy place to come to, irrespective of the opposition's form but they were in good form [tonight] and for us to win so convincingly is credit to the boys.
Daizen Maeda was on the scoresheet, sum up his performance...
Yeah brilliant - but he does it every week. I know sometimes people don't see the work that he does for us and offers us in terms of his energy and his ability to cause opposition problems. He's been a bit unlucky I think on certain occasions with the end product but yeah probably should have scored the header. His contribution for the first goal, his willingness to run at the opposition... yeah, what a cracking goal. It'll be close for goal of the season that one.
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Is that pleasing that he's got that character to keep going after missing and think about having a strike from distance?
Yeah, well, that's just him. I've known him for a little while now. I've had him in Japan and he's got such a strong mindset - not just in his football but in his effort. You know, he'll close people down and won't get any rewards but that won't stop him closing people down and that filters through to his football.
Aaron Mooy with a couple of goals - how pleased were you with his contribution tonight because he got the man of the match?
Yeah, he was great. To be fair, he's been knocking on the door score goal. He's been pretty desperate and a bit lucky as he's been getting into those areas. I think for us, I said before, the World Cup was a really positive experience for all our lads there and you can see the benefits of that. Aaron's comeback really strong and Daizen obviously has although we haven't seen Jura [Josip Juranovic] yet but all our players.. Cam [Cameron Carter-Vickers] as well. I think it helps them with their belief and I think both Aaron and Daizen and Aaron were outstanding.
Do you have a bit of a headache with all those midfield options?
Nah, the headache is if you've got no options in management. It never works out that way. You always think there are so many options but today we had obviously [Sead] Haksabanovic, Jota, Tony Ralston, David Turnbull all out for different reasons and you have to juggle those things. But yeah it'll be pleasing to have Alistair Johnston available, [Yuki] Kobayashi's available, Jura's back in the building so, yeah, we're looking good.
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