Celtic striker Odsonne Edouard, the team’s top scorer last season with 22 goals, has picked up where he left off by finding the net with regularity in the opening weeks of the current campaign.
The 21-year-old is already on five goals and four assists from nine appearances this season, as tweeted by @CelticBible after he found the net in the Hoops’ 2-0 Europa League play-off first-leg win over AIK last night.
https://twitter.com/CelticBible/status/1164644914673737728
The French forward’s current figures for 2019/20 work out at 0.56 goals and 0.44 assists per game. If he can maintain that throughout the season, he will surpass his averages for both metrics from 2018/19.
He ended last season with 22 goals and eight assists from 52 appearances, an average of 0.42 goals and 0.15 assists per game.
Edouard has now scored 38 goals in 89 appearances for Celtic since he first came to the club from Paris Saint-Germain two years ago, an average of 0.43 goals per game during his time in Glasgow.
Of his five goals so far this season, three have come in European competition. His goal against AIK last night follows the two he scored in the Champions League qualifiers against Sarajevo and CFR Cluj.
These Celtic fans took to Twitter to show their appreciation for the young striker:
Unbelievable player, adds so much more to the team than just goals
— conrad (@conradgfootball) August 22, 2019
The new of Glasgow
— Tom Jessamine (@TomJessamine) August 22, 2019
— Larry Cafiero (@lcafiero) August 22, 2019
I wanna I wanna
— set phasers to Malky (@malcolm1983) August 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/JosephCanavan/status/1164655331974275072
And yet half the time we completely isolate him by punting it long.
— Shaun (@TheTweetofShaun) August 22, 2019
