He was a bit of a slow coach in terms of getting off the goal-scoring mark last season.

However, the old adage about waiting around for corporation buses has certainly rung true as two have come along at the same time for Celtic midfielder Matt O'Riley.

That's two games and two goals banked by the Danish under-21 international.

O'Riley followed up last weekend's counter at Celtic Park on flag day during the 4-2 win over Ross County with the clinching strike in Sunday's 3-1 victory at Pittodrie against Aberdeen as the champions recorded back-to-back league victories to kick off their Scottish Premiership title defence.

O'Riley took to social media as he labelled another satisfactory result in the Granite City for the treble holders: "Good days work."

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers doesn't need to be told that the 22-year-old is a baller and a wonderful football talent in the making.

The Northern Irishman just wants O'Riley to add more goals to his armoury and arsenal.

It's fair to see the midfield asset has been a different animal since the summer arrival of Rodgers for a second managerial stint in Paradise.

Ironically it took O'Riley until February last season to bulge the net with his first goal of the campaign in a 5-1 Scottish Cup win triumph over St Mirren.

Despite chipping in with 14 assists in all competitions last season Rodgers revealed that a pre-season pep talk with O'Riley regarding his contribution in terms of goals for the team seems to have done the trick.

After just two matches of the Premiership campaign, O'Riley is already halfway to reaching last season's goal haul of four.

Rodgers admits that he crunched the numbers in terms of goals scored by O'Riley and it didn't make any sense.

He reckons that a player of his calibre who possesses talent and game intelligence in abundance should also be a more regular goal-grabber.

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Rodgers said: "I like him (O'Riley). I like him a lot. I think he is a really intelligent footballer. Firstly as a professional. He is a top professional. He prepares his body well and he prepares his life well.  He wants to do well. He sets his standards high every day to be better.

"When I looked at his numbers and everything else I think I said to him you need to score more goals as he didn't do it enough. He was a bit like Jamesy Forrest when I first came into the club. He didn't score enough for the talent that he had and I was looking at Matt from last season and his first goal was in February. You can't have that talent and be waiting that long to score your first goal of the season.

"It is all about arriving in the areas and finding composure to finish. I am really pleased for him and that was a good run into the box and finish from him. I really like him, his build-up play is good, he takes the ball and he needs to work on his pressing and intensity but he is a wonderful footballer and he is a good guy as well."

Rodgers also believes that if O'Riley can help Rodgers new look Celtic plunder more silverware then his career path will be laden with gold and that it will only be a matter of time before the big bucks and contact offers come rolling in

The 50-year-old said: "The more you learn the more you earn. If you keep learning you will keep earning. Hopefully, he does that as he is intelligent."

Rodgers confessed that he had limited knowledge of the former Fulham player prior to former Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou plucking him from League One in England and becoming what has proved to be a £1.5 million bargain and steal for the Hoops.

O'Riley s a four-and-a-half-year deal after Celtic met his release clause in January 2022 and hasn't looked back since.

Eight months later he was lining up against then holders Real Madrid in the Champions League group stages at Paradise.

Rodgers insists that there is a thirst and desire within O'Riley to keep his career going in an upward trajectory.

Rodgers said: "I didn't see a great deal of him. He was obviously at MK Dons and I know he was linked with moves down south as most Celtic or Rangers players are.

" I have watched every Celtic game that has been on telly and I have seen his ability. He is a wonderful footballer and he is ambitious and he wants to be better and improve."

Rodgers managerial forte is taking players who possess the raw ingredients and nurturing them into top-class talents.

For O'Riley read the likes of former Celtic stars Scott Sinclair and Stuart Armstrong as well as former Leicester City now Tottenham player James Maddison.

All owe Rodgers a debt of gratitude for turning them from rough diamonds into something approximating the spit and polished finished article.

The £64,000 question now is can Rodgers weave his managerial magic again and sprinkle similar football stardust on O'Riley?

Rodgers said: "Hopefully. I always try and create that culture but the responsibility lies with the footballer.

"You design training and work sessions with the players and staff and you create an environment that is designed to help them develop and improve.

"If you are clever enough you take that on board. He's in his early 20s and he is only going to get better as he is at the start of his asset age as a player and will get better."

O'Riley is working under the best manager possible to help him develop and improve. He is also in the right working environment to aid his quest to take his talents right to the top of the game.

It is genuinely a matter of time before the $64,000 dollar question becomes redundant in terms of O'Riley.

How did Rodgers put it again?

"If you keep learning you will keep earning".

The sky is undoubtedly the limit for O'Riley provided he continues to drink from Rodgers own wealth of expertise, experience and knowledge.