THREE goals, two contentious offside calls and a missed penalty? Just a run of the mill Celtic v Hearts game then...

Ange Postecoglou's side kept up the pressure at the top of the Premiership by picking up a valuable three points at Tynecastle thanks to Reo Hatate's thunderbolt and a clever Giorgos Giakoumakis flick. 

Liam Boyce pulled one back for the Jambos before crashing a penalty off the post on a dramatic night in Gorgie.

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Postecoglou, without the likes of captain Callum McGregor, David Turnbull, Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Tom Rogic due to injury and international commitments, retained just three of the starting XI from the Scottish Cup win over Alloa Atheltic.

Out went Anthony Ralston, Stephen Welsh, Liam Scales, Yosuke Ideguchi, McGregor, Rogic, Maeda and Liel Abada in favour of Josip Juranovic, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Greg Taylor, Nir Bitton, Hatate, Matt O'Riley, Jota and James Forrest.

Here, The Celtic Way picks out the most important StatsBomb data from the game for you...

xG & shots

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While Hearts outperformed Celtic in xG, Liam Boyce's penalty accounted for around half their cumulative output. 

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Celtic had almost three times as many shots as the Jambos but the scattered nature of their locations meant mid- to high-quality chances were at a premium.

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Possession, passing and positions

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The change of average positioning in the second half reinforces how different the halves of football were for Celtic. Of particular note is Giakoumakis' deeper role in the second 45 as his focus shifted to helping the midfield from providing a focal point.
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O'Riley's impressive debut was backed by the data, with the Englishman racking up four times as many key passes as any other player.

Pressing and defending

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As expected, the most intense battlegrounds were on either flank, with the left a particularly prominent location for Celtic's counter-pressing.

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O'Riley's ability on both sides of the ball shines through here, with the 21-year-old leading the Celtic charts for pressures and total pressure duration. He was also second to captain-for-the-night Bitton in counter-pressures

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Perhaps naturally, given the more defensive nature of the second half in particular, several Celtic players put up decent defensive numbers.

Worthy of note, given the criticism he has received in the build-up to Boyce's consolation goal, is Carl Starfelt's relatively poor aerial success rate (55 per cent) but also his very capable contributions in terms of interceptions (six, a game-high), clearances (seven, behind only Carter-Vickers) and tackled/dribbled past percentage (100 per cent, equalled only by Bitton and Greg Taylor of the other Celts).