FT: Celtic 4-0 Hearts as it happened

Summary

27 domestic games unbeaten - Celtic's best start to a season
Late replacement McGregor shoots Celtic in front
Sinclair nets twice, Roberts with the third
Celtic go 22 points clear at top of Premiership
17 league victories in a row for Brendan Rodgers' side
One win in six league games for Hearts boss Ian Cathro

Live Reporting

Clive Lindsay

Postpublished at 14:03 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
HT: Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Will Hearts give debuts to their two latest signings? On-loan Stoke City winger Moha Choulay and fellow 21-year-old striker Dylan Bikey, who has joined from Stirling Albion, are both on the bench.
It would be some story if Frenchman Bikey went from scoring a ninth goal in nine games as an amateur for part-time Stirling Albion to the next week facing the Scottish champions at Celtic Park.
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New signing Moha Choulay is hoping to make his debut as a substitute
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Dylan Bikey has been all smiles on the Hearts bench
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Postpublished at 13:59 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
HT: Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Chris McLaughlin
BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park
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Celtic ahead and looking relatively comfortable at the break. They're definitely missing that cutting edge up front that Dembele or Griffiths can provide. Hearts are working hard, but they haven't really looked like scoring. Not a great spectacle so far
Postpublished at 13:53 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
HT: Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Tom English
BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park
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They haven't been much good, Celtic, but they have been too good for Hearts. The goal is completely Malaury Martin's fault as he fails to track McGregor
HALF-TIME Celtic 1-0 Heartspublished at 13:49 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
Celtic lead thanks to Callum McGregor's strike on the half hour in a game they have dominated without threatening too often.
Hearts failed to muster an attempt on target and will need to improve immensely if they are to prevent Celtic beating that Lisbon Lions record for domestic unbeaten games from the start of the season.
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McGregor celebrates his third goal of the season
CLOSE!published at 45mins
Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Jamie Walker loops a header narrowly over the crossbar after Malaury Martin sends a dangerous free-kick into the Celtic penalty box.
Postpublished at 45mins
Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Only one minute of stoppage time to be added.
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Get Involvedpublished at 13:44 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
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Would any of today's Celtic team displace any of the Lisbon Lions?
Gerry Pentleton: None of them apart from maybe the goalkeeper would even get in the Seville team never mind the Lions team. Lions didn't lose to the likes of Lincoln Red Imps and struggle against the likes of Astana and Beer Sheva
Colm Kilbane: None of them would get into the Lions side, but there isn't a player playing in the UK who would get into the Lions side.
Postpublished at 38mins
Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Craig Gordon isn't doing his chances of encouraging an improved Chelsea bid much good as he makes another poor clearance.
The Scotland goalkeeper tries a casual chip over an opponent that falls to Don Cowie, but his former international team-mate can make nothing of the opportunity as his pass fails to find a clutch of Hearts players in the penalty box.
Postpublished at 36mins
Celtic 1-0 Hearts
Liam Smith has to head clear as a dangerous Scott Sinclair free-kick is whipped into the Hearts penalty box.
It is a long way back now for Hearts if they are to become the first Scottish team to beat Celtic this season.
They are chasing shadows at the moment - and there are a fair few around because of that winter sunshine.
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Postpublished at 33mins
Celtic 1-0 Hearts
That goal came just as Hearts were enjoying their best spell of the match, but they were too easily undone by Celtic's quick break.
GOAL Celtic 1-0 Heartspublished at 29mins
Callum McGregor
Callum McGregor shouldn't have been starting today and the midfielder makes the most of his opportunity as he fires Celtic into the lead.
Stand-in striker Scott Sinclair plays the ball through to the midfielder, who threads his shot past goalkeeper Jack Hamilton and in off the inside of the post from 14 yards.
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Callum McGregor opens the scoring for Celtic
Postpublished at 23mins
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
Hearts goalkeeper Jack Hamilton has to be quick off his line to punch clear as Kieran Tierney waits to pounce on a header to the back post from Scott Brown.
'Very flat' openingpublished at 13:24 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
Tom English
BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park
Lots of talk about the Lisbon Lions in the air at Celtic Park. We could do with a few of them on the pitch. Celtic very flat in the opening 20 minutes. Hearts not offering anything either to be honest. A poor game that can only get better, we hope...
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Hearts are working hard to deny Celtic space to work in
Postpublished at 20mins
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
After all of Brendan Rodgers' talk about how Craig Gordon has improved with his distribution, the goalkeeper's fluffs a clearance straight to Sam Nicholson and is relieved when the midfielder is unable to gather.
Postpublished at 19mins
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
The first time Hearts put some pressure on the Celtic defence and Jamie Walker's volley is high and wide.
The visitors have been on the back foot until now.
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Get Involvedpublished at 13:20 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
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Postpublished at 15mins
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
John Souttar is a relieved man as James Forrest dispossesses the Hearts defender and the ball ricochets to Scott Sinclair in the clear inside the penalty box, but the assistant referee's flag goes up for offside.
The former Dundee United man doesn't half take some chances at the back.
Postpublished at 13:14 Greenwich Mean Time 29 January 2017
Celtic 0-0 Hearts
Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
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Looking at the way Hearts are lining up, they are playing three on one at the back, so they are not taking any chances there