Daizen Maeda. St Johnstone v Celtic, Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 20 April 2025. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
LORD KATSUMOTO – 7.5/10 – From unplayable Japanese to unstoppable Japanese. The records will fall, cut down by the Samurai’s blade before the cuck in No.10 confiscates it….Another two today, going on a hat-trick, to bring his season total to somewhere near infinity. Started wide, destroyed their flank, throwing in some fine but wasted crosses, before deciding just to flaming well score himself. It’s getting ridiculous now…
“I think he’s raised the bar.” 🗣️
Neil Lennon, Callum Davidson and Alan Hutton on Daizen Maeda’s improvement this season 🍀📈
𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 @sbk | 18+ | 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦#ScottishCup pic.twitter.com/jt5jhsAj1D
— Premier Sports (@PremSportsTV) April 20, 2025
Adam Idah scores. St Johnstone v Celtic, Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 20 April 2025. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
DUNCAN IDAHO – 6.5/10 – Hmm, well the big bhoy is trying a bit more, that’s for sure; maybe realising his Celtic career’s in jeopardy. Good movement and effort, sweet tap-in for reward. Still must give us more in terms of linkage and hold-up play. Maybe needs to add application to his game when it’s not going his way, rather than the defeatist demeanour he can bear at times. Get gallus.
James Forrest. St Johnstone v Celtic, Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 20 April 2025. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
JAMESY – 7.5/10 – The legend returns to Mount Florida, still searching for this mythical ‘Florida’ burd. His zip was up from the kick-off (metaphorically unusual) and it was he who zipped about, causing the most problems for
them early on. The Jamesy give-and-go is still a delight to see in action (ladies…) and on this form we’ve seen he can lift teams to titles; that bustling energy cannot be contained – even by empty pint glasses – and the money shot today would have been Jamesy stepping up to take the penalty he won…
…Oh yes he did. But in Mibbery’s world a combined take-down by a tag-team doesn’t count as illegal; one to knock you off-stride with a clip, one to knock you down with a barge. Prickly. . He was subbed to a special ovation, late for his traditional Easter Playboy Bunny Hunt but smiling nonetheless. So to the final five league games and the golden goal we want to see for the 16-season record. I repeat, Brendan – PLAY HIM, PUT HIM ON PENS.
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