Celtic score five to go top

Celtic 5 Inverness 0

Celtic cruised to the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League for the first time this season with a thrashing of Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Parkhead.

The champions leapfrogged Rangers, beaten earlier in the day at Hearts, with strikes from Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, who scored twice, Massimo Donati and Shunsuke Nakamura, with a Phil McGuire own goal compounding the visitors’ misery.

Celtic will fly to Ukraine tomorrow ahead of their Champions League clash with Shakhtar Donetsk boosted by the convincing win, while the SPL’s bottom side remain without a point.