Fresh footage as Kyogo shows his delight at ending goal drought

There was no disguising the joy and relief of Kyogo Furuhashi as he opened the scoring in Celtic’s 2-0 win over Livingston and Celtic Park.

Since scoring against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League the hoops striker has only had one goal to celebrate but his memories of scoring at home to Aberdeen are likely to be a bit hazy with a brutal head injury suffered later in the game.

For 45 minutes yesterday there was little service coming his way, very few of the cut-backs from the by-line that he has thrived on.

Within a minute of the second half getting underway Luis Palma cut inside to try a shot at goal, rather than suffer a near miss Kyogo put a Chalmers-like touch on the ball to redirect it into the net.

His relief afterwards was obvious as he embraced the ball, recalling a long lost friend that has been frustratingly elusive in recent weeks.

Soon afterwards Liam Scales delivered something of a rarity, scoring from a Celtic corner. Daizen Maeda ran across Palma’s delivery with Scales, moving away from goal getting his head on the cross to send it spiralling across goal towards the Celtic TV camera.

A two match losing run was ended but there is still plenty of work to be done to reach the standards that were common place last season.