CELTIC are celebrating their ninth league title in a row, the second time in the club's history that this has been achieved. And we're celebrating some iconic moments from some of our most famous No.9s.

Today's moment of magic comes from Leigh Griffiths in a derby demolition at Ibrox back in 2017.

Leigh Griffiths proudly wears the No.9 jersey for Celtic, and the 115 goals he’s scored so far for the club, including 84 in the league, have helped the Hoops secure nine consecutive Premiership titles.

The striker was in a rich vein of form in 2020, with eight goals to his name since the winter break, including an impressive hat-trick in what proved to be Celtic’s last game of the 2019/20 season – a 5-0 home win over St Mirren.

But the goal we’re highlighting in our nine-in-a-row feature comes from the 5-1 victory over Rangers in the Invincible Treble season. Which 5-1 game, we hear you ask, since the Hoops hammered their city rivals by that scoreline on two occasions during that campaign.

Griffiths’ goal came in the 5-1 demolition derby at Ibrox in April 2017. Celtic were already leading 1-0 through a Scott Sinclair penalty after seven minutes when the Hoops No.9 doubled the lead in the 18th minute.

Stuart Armstrong fed the ball into Griffiths’ path in the inside left channel, and driving into the area, the striker unleashed a powerful left-foot shot from a tight angle that soared into the roof of the Rangers net.

Further goals in the second-half from Callum McGregor, Dedryck Boyata and Mikael Lustig confirmed Celtic’s dominance in the fixture.

Speaking after the game, Griffiths said: “It’s a real statement to come here and play the way we did. I think in the last 10 minutes, we took our foot off the gas a little bit, and in the end it was five going on seven or eight with the amount of chances that we created. We gave Rangers very limited space and we played to our maximum today.

“Callum McGregor had a similar chance in the first few minutes and I was screaming at him. Kendo said I would have got an earful if I’d missed the target but there was no way I was passing up that opportunity to score.

“I had another chance too, which hit the bar. Just a couple of inches lower and that was going in the back of the net, but it’s not just about my performance today, it’s about the team performance.

“To be involved in a game like this is massive and to go about it the way that we did was great. We knew in the dressing room that if we played to our maximum that no-one could live with us and today we showed how good a team we are.”

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