Watch how Kyogo lit up Dublin with his goal against Wolves

Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Kilmarnock v Celtic - Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, Scotland, Britain - April 16, 2023 Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi celebrates scoring their first goal with Sead Haksabanovic REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

Kyogo Furuhashi was the Celtic goalscorer in the 1-1 draw with Wolves at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin today.

Last season’s top scorer showed his instinctive ability around goal after just five minutes to smash the ball into the net from 15 yards after Liel Abada has laid the ball back.

There was plenty of movement and invention about Celtic’s attacking play as they pushed Wolves at every opportunity although there were a few shaky moments at that back where Stephen Welsh and Liam Scales were paired together with Tomoki Iwata playing at right-back.

Kyogo seemed to suffer from cramp on the hour mark with Yang Hyun-jun sent on for his Celtic debut and Daizen Maeda switching to the central striker role.

After 70 minutes the substitutions started to mount up with Hyeokkyu Kwon getting his first appearance in the centre of the park.

With five minutes left to play Wolves were awarded the softest of penalties when Matt Doherty tumbled after knocking the ball beyond Joe Hart with no angle on goal.

Cameron Carter-Vickers and Maik Nawrocki’s absence was expected but with Carl Starfelt also missing there are questions about the centre of defence one week before the competitive action gets underway at home to Ross County.

CELTIC: Hart, Iwata, Welsh (McPherson 67), Scales, Taylor, McGregor, O’Riley (Kwon 60), Hatate (Holm 70), Abada (Haksabanovic 70), Maeda (Oh 70), Kyogo (Yang 60).

Subs: Bain, Siegrist, Turnbull, Bernabei, Lawal, Forrest.

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS: Jose Sa, Lemina (Silva 79), Neto (Hwang 70), Cunha, Dawson (Esen 70), Bueno Lopez (Ait-Nouri 46), Sarabia (T. Gomes 70), Sememdo (Doherty 79), Kilman, Nunes, Hodge.

Subs: Traore, Gomes, Kalajdzic, Castro Otto, Bentley, King, Fraser, Pond, Farmer.

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