It looked for all the world to be a Boxing Day hangover manifesting as a football match.A near empty McDiarmid Park, a threadbare Celtic shorn of yet more key players and a St Johnstone team managing to end the most successful year in their history under real threat of relegation.
But Ange Postecoglou is steadfastly refusing to reach for the excuses and his patchwork side followed their manager's lead with a resilient victory in Perth.
Liel Abada's double and and a rare goal from stand-in skipper Nir Bitton capped a comfortable win - especially given the depth of Celtic's injury list.Callum McGregor, Greg Taylor, Joe Hart and Anthony Ralston added to the ensemble cast of absentees amid talk of a Covid outbreak at Parkhead.But what was left
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