Why 'stylish' Aussie coach matters more than most

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Ange Postecoglou notched his archetypal triumph successful the Europa League arsenic Celtic eased to an awesome 2-0 triumph implicit Ferencvaros successful Glasgow this morning.

Celtic had mislaid their opening 2 games successful the Europa League - a 4-3 rollercoaster against Real Betis earlier being thumped 4-0 by Bayer Leverkusen.

That effect had ratcheted up the unit connected trailblazing Australian manager Postecoglou, with Celtic besides making a sluggish commencement to their Scottish Premiership campaign.

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Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou celebrates his broadside going 1-0 ahead. (Getty)

But the jubilant fist pumps told the communicative for Postecoglou arsenic Kyogo Furuhashi's objective onslaught and a precocious Ferencvaros ain extremity ignited a bumper assemblage of astir 50,000.

Victory lifted Celtic to 3rd successful Group G and the 'Hoops' are besides up to 4th successful the Scottish Premiership acknowledgment to wins implicit Aberdeen and Motherwell.

"A precise convincing win," Mark Bosnich said connected Stan Sport's Champions League sum this morning.

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Mark Bosnich connected Stan Sport. (Stan)

"Could person been more. Joe Hart did marque an important prevention astatine a very, precise important clip but they're getting amended and amended and the people didn't truly archer the story.

"Kyogo's been perfectly fantastic. (Callum) McGregor missed a punishment arsenic good – it was a convincing win."

Bosnich said the 3 crippled winning streak had been coming if you had been pursuing Celtic's advancement closely.

Ange Postecoglou of Celtic successful Glasgow. (Getty)

"The information and the stats were bully – which doesn't ever archer each the story, bully oregon bad.

"But watching the games we thought it told a bully communicative and it was conscionable the elemental things that were letting them down, successful some boxes... He (Postecoglou) ever starts a small spot dilatory astatine the clubs that he's at.

"He was nether a batch of unit earlier the planetary break, won the crippled against Aberdeen, won astatine the play against Motherwell.

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou shakes hands with Callum McGregor during a pre-season friendly. (PA Images via Getty Images)

"He's got St Johnstone this week and... from an Australian coach's position – and Ange's position arsenic good – it's important that helium does bash well.

"And particularly with the benignant of shot arsenic well, due to the fact that Australians person ne'er been looked upon, successful the shot world, arsenic being peculiarly stylish.

"And we request to commencement changing that perception."

Former Socceroos skipper Craig Foster stressed however monolithic Postecoglou's advancement was for the Australian game.

Craig Foster connected Stan Sport. (Stan)

"He's our archetypal manager astatine this level of the crippled truthful it's incredibly important that helium does well," Foster said connected Stan Sport.

"Because it has a monolithic impact. It has an interaction connected aspiring young coaches, of course, but besides conscionable the mode that Australian coaches are viewed successful Europe and elsewhere astir the world. So everyone is riding him hard, basically.

"The past mates of weeks has been excellent. But connected Stan Sport FC we looked astatine the expected goals and it shows precise evidently that the squad was already successful the apical 3 teams successful the league."

Postecoglou was people delighted aft the triumph implicit the Budapest club.

"We're ne'er going to beryllium a squad that tries to dilatory things down oregon conscionable instrumentality power for the involvement of it," Postecoglou said.

"We privation to beryllium relentless and we privation the absorption to cognize we're going to support going to the last whistle irrespective of the score, and I deliberation determination are bully signs that that worldly is dilatory coming along."

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