Celtic have regained their footing at the top of the Scottish Premiership table temporarily following a 2-0 victory over St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park on Sunday afternoon, but it wasn’t an easy three points by any means.

In fact, the defending champions looked particularly poor as substitute duo Leigh Griffiths and Patryk Klimala came off the bench to salvage the win in injury time.

The Hoops had three shots on target all game as Neil Lennon persisted with a 3-5-2 formation which was pronged at the top by Odsonne Edouard and Saints loanee Mohamed Elyounoussi –  and the latter’s display may highlight a massive cause for concern.

In 76 minutes of action, the Norweigen attacker failed to record a single shot, successful dribble or cross. He also lost possession 12 times and won just 21% of his duels both aerially and on the ground, as per SofaScore.

Whilst playing as a striker is not his natural position, he can still deliver the goods as shown in outings before this one – he’s bagged two goals from four games in this role.

But with Griffiths back in the mix and Klimala pushing for a place in the team too. His days starting could be numbered, especially within this system as Greg Taylor is preferred at wing-back.

Lennon is even in the market for a new left-sided player too, according to reports, so it could certainly spell trouble for Elyounoussi very soon.

The 26-year-old winger is valued at £8.55m by Transfermarkt, which is only bettered by Edouard within this Bhoys squad and whilst it remains to be seen how much he’s making here at Parkhead, he was on £60k-per-week wages at the Premier League outfit.

Given their financial problems this summer, they surely wouldn’t have let him return to Scotland if Celtic weren’t paying a substantial chunk of his pay packet.

So if Elyounoussi’s performances continue to be as poor as this one, then the lightweight is immensely letting down his manager and the club.

AND in other news, Nick Hammond cannot afford to have a John McGinn 2.0 scenario over EFL “diamond”…