This turned into one of those perfunctory victories so familiar to Celtic at home but the scoreline alone doesn’t tell the full story of the afternoon. Brendan Rodgers and his players will head to Rotterdam for their opening Champions League match against Feyenoord with confidence brimming, having extended their advantage at the top of the table after scoring three unanswered second-half goals.
By the end Parkhead was positively purring in the sunshine, with debutant Luis Palma adding to the good-natured atmosphere with an audacious nutmeg as the hosts knocked the ball around the exhausted Dundee defenders for fun.
The mood, however, had been less boisterous at the interval after a flat first-half performance from Celtic that had echoes of the recent sterile, goalless draw with
