Irish Daily Mirror

Goals the main goal for James

- BY MICHAEL GANNON

JAMES FORREST is looking to lighten the load on Odsonne Edouard by weighing in with his fair share of goals.

The Celtic winger was one of five different scorers in the Dundee demolition in midweek.

Brendan Rodgers’s side have rattled 18 goals in their last four games with eight different names on the scoresheet.

Edouard has been leading the line with Moussa Dembele departed and Leigh Griffiths sidelined. But Forrest has hit six goals in four games to make it eight for the

The manager likes the goals to be spread about the team a little bit

season and is on the way to passing last terms’s total of 17.

Forrest said: “The manager likes the goals being spread out like that. We can’t expect just to rely on Odsonne or Leigh to score all the time.

“We scored five at Dundee and it could have been more. But it’s important we keep believing in ourselves.

“Odsonne’s our top scorer but everyone wants to get goals and make a contributi­on.

“I don’t think anyone is thinking too much about having the most goals as long as they’re playing their part and right now everyone seems to be scoring. Last season was the most goals I’ve ever scored.

“I’ll continue to take it game by game but the way we’re playing at the moment and the number of opportunit­ies we’re creating, hopefully I’ll continue to score more.

“It’s not just that we’re scoring so many goals but the fact that we’re sharing them around.”

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