“a small procedure” in hospital<\/a> earlier this week, with assistant Shaun Maloney guiding the reigning champions to a second win of the new season.<\/p>\nCelltic enjoyed a dream start on the new grass surface at Rugby Park, taking the lead after just 64 seconds. <\/p>\n
Kieran Tierney fed Arne Engels on the left and his cross was met by Hogh and the summer arrival from Bodo\/Glimt rose to firmly head home.<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock responded well but failed to take advantage of some good chances in a lively opening period and Celtic went on to punish their defensive mistakes.<\/p>\n
The visitors got their second just after the half-hour mark, with Camilo Duran pouncing on Johnly Yfeko’s slack pass out of defence and starting a quick passing move that ended with Hogh squeezing a tidy finish past goalkeeper Max Stryjek and into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Moments later, the Danish striker completed his hat-trick with another header, finding himself unmarked and perfectly positioned when Duran’s cross was lifted over Stryjek to the back post.<\/p>\n
Celtic were creating chances almost at will but could not add to the scoreline before the break.<\/p>\n
However, matters went from bad to worse for the hosts immediately after the restart, with a Stryjek howler handing Celtic a fourth. <\/p>\n
The goalkeeper passed the ball directly to Benjamin Nygren, who composed himself before burying a finish into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Duran and Yang went close, but Kilmarnock got on the scoresheet when Michael Schjonning-Larsen finished off a flowing move that had cut through the Celtic defence.<\/p>\n
Luke McCowan added a fifth from a corner, the midfielder scoring with his first touch moments after coming on as a substitute, to round off a comfortable win for the champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kasper Hogh scored his first Celtic goals as his hat-trick steered Celtic to an emphatic victory away to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}