Kyogo Furuhashi of Celtic celebrates scoring his team’s second goal with teammate Daizen Maeda during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phas…Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images
The ‘nightmare’ Coll Donaldson didn’t want to face against Celtic in the League Cup
Celtic’s win over Falkirk in the League Cup is still being spoken about his week as Brendan Rodgers’ side look forward to another trip to Hampden in November.
The 5-2 victory was a hard-fought one and one that the Celtic boss says he will take full blame for after the home side’s subpar performance.
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Rodgers made eight changes to the Celtic team that defeated Slovan Bratislava just four days earlier and, to be fair, it showed.
Falkirk took advantage of that with a fine display of attacking and pressing football but, in the end, Celtic’s quality shone through after Rodgers made four changes on the 70th-minute mark.
All four subs made an immediate impact but Falkirk captain, Coll Donaldson was just happy that one player wasn’t called upon by the Celtic boss.
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Rodgers called upon Arne Engels, Nicolas Kuhn, Hyunjun Yang and Greg Taylor to reverse the 2-1 deficit for Celtic.
And whilst the changes had a devastating impact, Donaldson was just happy the Celtic boss didn’t throw on Kyogo Furuhashi as well.
Donaldson said The Big Scottish Football Podcast, “Well, Kyogo was still warming up. So Kyogo was the one that I was like, oh please, just didn’t bring him on.
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“Like he’s a nightmare, Kyogo, rapid, like a good finisher.”
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67 Hail Hail has already discussed this afternoon about Kyogo’s changing role at the club after Adam Idah admitted he is learning from the Japanese striker.
The experience he has in Europe with Celtic and winning trophies domestically coupled with his international caps makes Kyogo the perfect player to learn from but as Donaldson points out, his pace and finishing are the scourge of the opposition.
At 29, the Japanese striker’s experience wasn’t required against Falkirk on Sunday but what is encouraging is that in his absence, Celtic have a striker in Idah who is more than capable of carrying the goalscoring burden.
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Playing at Celtic Park can be daunting, and not every player can thrive in those surroundings if the Bhoys are in the mood to cause destruction.
However, Falkirk gave as good as they got in the Premier Sports Cup quarter-final last Sunday and looked like causing the home side trouble before braces from Adam Idah and Nicolas Kuhn turned the tide late on in a 5-2 win.
When the score sat at 2-1, there was an expectancy from the Celtic support that their side would come back. However, Idah admitted post-match that his side underestimated the Bairns during a first-half showing where John McGlynn’s outfit played some entertaining football and got their reward.
Ross MacIver opened the scoring before Paulo Bernardo’s equaliser, leading to Finn Yeats heading home on the stroke of half-time to give Falkirk a shock lead going into the interval.
Discussing events last weekend, the 20-year-old defender opened up on how he feels after sampling life under the spotlight at Celtic Park.
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Speaking to The Falkirk Herald, Yeats admitted that his goal against Celtic is the ‘biggest moment’ of his career so far and believes his side can take belief from running the Scottish champions close.
He said: “I don’t score too many goals, to be honest. I think I’ve scored about once in two years. It was a good ball, and I headed it clean, back across the goal, and it trundled in. It was probably the biggest moment in my career and I’ll remember it for a good while.
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“I was looking to do a knee slide! It was a good time to score, right on halftime, but they brought on their big boys and they finished us off.
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“I’ve got legs – even though I came off with cramp after 65 minutes! The first half was about getting up to the box as much as possible. Overall, I was delighted with my performance.”
Later, Yeats added: “We are quite a confident group, and we showed that on Sunday by playing our stuff and not lying down to Celtic.
“But to go there and score two goals should give us massive belief we can go and take this league by storm.”
Celtic will have benefitted from their clash against Falkirk
Alongside the morale-boosting achievement of getting to a semi-final, Celtic also benefitted from being able to give some of their new signings and fringe players minutes against Falkirk.
Even if one or two found proceedings less than straightforward, sharpness in their legs will be key later in the campaign. With a congested fixture schedule on the horizon, minutes are vital to get them up to speed.
Simon Donnelly believes Celtic’s win over Falkirk emphasised how good a place their squad is in at the moment, and it is hard to disagree.
Hopefully, players afforded a chance for the first time in a while can keep themselves fit and ready in case they need to be called upon, while fresh arrivals can also follow suit.
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