THE supporters have been asking when they were going to see the real Celtic this season. Against Dundee they turned up and were a mighty impressive sight.

Dundee had been going along rather nicely before this Sunday afternoon mauling at Parkhead. The champions were utterly dominant, scored some good goals and, most importantly, played attacking and entertaining football which the crowd lapped up.

Aberdeen are not going to go away. That much is for sure. So games such as this one against an opponent who can be difficult must be dealt with in this manner by Ronny Deila's men. From what we have seen so far, the men from the North East are not going to drop many points. They haven’t dropped any so far.

It was really the first time Celtic were at it from first to last minute. This was a lot more like it.

Tom Rogic was the star. Everyone in green and white played well, however, the Australian excelled in the No10 role. The injured Stefan Johansen wasn’t missed.

Deila was forced into a number of changes. There was no Jozo Simonovic so Efe Ambrose was in the centre of defence and the impressive Saidy Janko began at right-back. They were barely tested.

We had to wait a whole seven minutes for the game’s first chance. A mazy run from Kris Commons was ended abruptly by Nicky Low 20 yards out. Leigh Griffiths took the free-kick it and put his shot a fraction wide.

Within a minute, the striker was through on goal after being picked out by a sublime Nir Bitton pass and this time his effort grazed the crossbar on its way over.

And Griffiths really should have scored his third clear opportunity. Celtic knocked the ball about the Dundee box looking for an opening which Commons spotted. He threaded a pass to Brown, he in turn touched into the path of the centre-forward but with Dundee keeper Scott Bain almost on the ground, Griffiths hit his shot right at him.

However, Dundee were never going to hold out for much longer. Again, Celtic showed patience in passing the ball side-to-side rather than crossing for nobody. Brown dummied a shot and instead slid the ball to Emilio Izaguirre, he cut back for Rogic who produced a rather fine volley that ended up in the back of the net.

That was on 14 minutes. Within 90 seconds it was 2-0.

Rogic aimed a high ball to Griffiths who was running towards goal, he controlled on his chest, Dundee’s defenders either couldn’t stay on their feet or get near him, which allowed the Celtic man to score his tenth goal of an increasingly impressive season.

Celtic were coasting. On 20 minutes, Rogic skipped past three tackles to give himself a chance of a shot, which he took, only for Bain to make a smart save to his right.

Next up was James Forrest with a curling effort that just didn’t quite curl enough, although it did not miss the top corner by much.

Rogic was having a great time. From a corner on 24 minutes, the ball was headed into the air by Janko and the Aussie played keepy-uppy before pulling off a shot on the full, which Bain did well to keep out.

Four minutes later, Celtic broke from their own box, Commons switched play to Sanko who showed some nice skill, he back-heeled his way past Gary Irvine, before finding Rogic on the edge of the box who laid the ball into Forrest’s path, and the resultant shot was not far away.

At the end of as one-sided a first-half as you will ever see, Dundee almost scored. Brown tripped Low at the edge of the box, Gary Harkins took the free-kick and his low shot was denied a goal by good keeping from Craig Gordon.

Forrest still had time to hit the crossbar following a superb run from the left in which he beat four Dundee players with his speed.

Bain then saved from, guess who, Rogic and from that corner, Commons and Forrest exchanged passes and the former's shot was deflected over off the thigh of James McPake.

If anything, it was too easy for Celtic. They strolled about the pitch after the break and continued to impress, even if at times they tried to walk the ball into the net.

And then they did walk the ball into the net on 54 minutes.

Izaguirre was another have a fine afternoon. He kept making runs into the box looking for a pass and when Commons laid the ball on a plate for him, he forced his shot past Bain with his right boot from close range.

And on the hour mark, the little man from Honduras scored his second. He was set-up by his fellow full-back Janko who had scampered down the right, his cross was deflected towards the back post where Izaguirre tapped the ball home.

The immediate thought was that if Celtic won a penalty then he'd have to take it. They did four minutes on, Irvine tripped Callum McGregor, but he blew his chance to become one of the few - maybe only - Celtic left-backs to get a hat-trick when he sent his spot kick a mile over.

Dundee keeper Bain actually had a good game and his save from Brown with ten minutes left, a fully stretched effort that stopped the ball at the top corner was pretty special.

Nadir Ciftic, a second-half substitute, thought he'd scored after a rare mistake by Bain at a corner, but referee Steven McLean had spotted a foul.

The fifth did duly arrive on 87 minutes. Ciftci did well to pick out Brown with a cut-back and the skipper did even better to side-foot past Bain.

And Ciftci did get that first Celtic goal moments later. He made the most a poor pass-back and finished well. It was a day for Celtic when everything went right.

Celtic: Gordon; Janko, Boyata, Ambrose, Izaguirre; Brown, Bitton; Commons (Mackay-Steven 62), Rogic, Forrest (McGregor 62); Griffiths (Ciftci 56)

Subs not used: Bailly, Blackett, Stokes, Mackay-Steven, McGregor, Tierney

Dundee: Bain, Irvine, Konrad, McPake, McGinn, Thomson (Calder 69), Ross, Harkins (Loy 59), Low, Stewart, Hemmings (Healy 66)

Subs not used: Gourlay, Holt, Carreiro, Meggatt

Bookings: None

Referee: Steven McLean