Martin O'Neill says Celtic have started finding goals from more than one source, but he is still focused on the untidy moments before Wednesday's Champions League play-off. After Celtic beat Dundee Utd 4-0 in the Premier Sports Cup, following a 5-1 win over Kilmarnock, he said they need to "straighten that out before Wednesday".

Celtic's attacking lift

O'Neill's point is backed by the recent scoring spread. Benjamin Nygren has three goals and three assists in three matches, and Kasper Høgh scored three in the 5-1 win over Kilmarnock. Nygren also has two league goals and one league assist already this season, which is a cleaner look than Celtic had last year when O'Neill felt Daizen Maeda almost carried the scoring burden on his own.

He also said: "I think we've got goalscorers in the side. That was always a concern last season. We conjured goals and we won big games. But Daizen, almost single-handedly took it upon himself to score the goals. Now I think that there are goals from different areas."

That does not remove the concern over the details of Celtic's play. Dundee Utd hit the bar five times in 90 minutes, and O'Neill had already said, "In some moments we were terrific and in other moments I felt we were just a bit untidy. We'll have to straighten that out before Wednesday."

Lask Linz's challenge

Lask Linz are not arriving as a soft draw. They are unbeaten in their past 12 matches, winning 10 of them, and have scored 16 goals in their four-match start to this campaign. Christoph Lang and Samuel Adeniran have scored 11 of those 16 between them, so Celtic are being asked to handle a side with threat at both ends of the front line.

O'Neill called it "a really big task" and added, "They're a very fine side. They're very, very strong."

He has also said it is unlikely Celtic will sign anyone before Tuesday's 23:00 BST deadline, which leaves the current group to handle the tie. The attacking signs are better than they were last season, but the test on Wednesday is still a proper one.

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