Despite positive signs under new manager Neil McCann, Kilmarnock remain three points behind third bottom St Mirren.<\/p>\n
Perhaps inspired by their 4-3 midweek win over St Mirren, McCann’s side took the initiative from kick-off.<\/p>\n
At the other end, Daizen Maeda stung the palms of home goalkeeper Kelle Roos with a powerful drive, but Kilmarnock were quickly up the other end to score on the break.<\/p>\n
Just when John-Jules appeared to make a mess of his charge into the penalty box, he slipped inside Auston Trusty and curled his drive into the far corner.<\/p>\n
Having added to his midweek hat-trick, the big striker turned provider as his chip into the six-yard box was met by Hugill, whose header looped over scrambling goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock survived some late first-half pressure, but the introduction of new signing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Tomas Cvancara and Tounekti at the break turned the game.<\/p>\n
Tounekti had already threatened before he cut inside and found the far corner with a trademark finish.<\/p>\n
Celtic were back level when Kilmarnock failed to clear a long throw and Nygren stabbed in his 13th league goal of the season.<\/p>\n
John-Jules fired a free-kick against the crossbar as both sides chased a winner.<\/p>\n
However, it was Celtic who were creating the better chances and their pressure told when a tiring Kilmarnock failed to clear inside their penalty box and on-loan Bournemouth right-back Araujo swept in his first goal for the visitors to ignite wild scenes among the visiting fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite positive signs under new manager Neil McCann, Kilmarnock remain three points behind third bottom St Mirren. Perhaps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-482404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}