{"id":27666,"date":"2023-03-02T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=27666"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T07:04:04","slug":"kyogo-at-the-double-as-celtic-clinch-league-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/03\/02\/kyogo-at-the-double-as-celtic-clinch-league-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyogo At the Double as Celtic Clinch League Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyogo Furuhashi was the man of the hour for Glasgow Celtic over the weekend as the Bhoys saw off Old Firm rivals Glasgow Rangers 2-1 in last Sunday&#8217;s Scottish League Cup final at Hampden Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vissel Kobe striker Kyogo brought his goal tally this season to 24 after bagging himself a brace, helping Celtic to their 21st Scottish League Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>During a heated encounter between the two arch-rivals, Kyogo opened the scoring for Celtic just before half-time. Having threatened Allan McGregor in the Rangers goal throughout the first half, Kyogo latched onto a Daizen Maeda ball before firing home a simple finish past McGregor, eliciting delight from the Celtic supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Kyogo, who was shockingly left out by Hajime Moriyasu in his Japan squad for last year&#8217;s FIFA World Cup, extended Celtic&#8217;s lead in the 56th minute. This time it was Reo Hatate who was the creator, the former Kawasaki Frontale man crossing the ball towards a sliding Kyogo for him to stab home into McGregor&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers&#8217; volatile Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos reduced the deficit in the 64th minute, slotting home a James Tavernier free-kick past Joe Hart in the Celtic goal, which increased the heat in an already tense match.<\/p>\n<p>However, Celtic saw out the game and defended their lead all the way into full-time, thus earning Ange Postecoglou his third title in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>With Celtic sitting pretty in the Scottish Premiership table summit and the Bhoys still in this year&#8217;s Scottish Cup, Ange and his charges can be confident that they could secure a domestic treble this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyogo Furuhashi was the man of the hour for Glasgow Celtic over the weekend as the Bhoys saw off Old Firm rivals Glasgow Rangers 2-1 in last Sunday&#8217;s Scottish League Cup final at Hampden Park. Former Vissel Kobe striker Kyogo brought his goal tally this season to 24 after bagging himself a brace, helping Celtic to their 21st Scottish League Cup title. During a heated encounter between the two arch-rivals, Kyogo opened the scoring for Celtic just before half-time. Having threatened Allan McGregor in the Rangers goal throughout the first half, Kyogo latched onto a Daizen Maeda ball before firing home a simple finish past McGregor, eliciting delight from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/03\/02\/kyogo-at-the-double-as-celtic-clinch-league-cup\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Kyogo At the Double as Celtic Clinch League Cup&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":27214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,1639],"tags":[1296,1261,2428,1998,2380,57,2388,2379,2730,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27667,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions\/27667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}