Martin O’Neill admitted that Celtic will miss Yang over the next few weeks and praised his players for getting a result on a tough evening…
Yang Hyun-jun was the Celtic match winner and a clear Man of the Match in Paisley last night, as the South Korean international star put in yet another impressive all round performance as the Hoops maintained their one hundred percent start to the Premiership campaign.
Five wins in a row can be added to the seven consecutive victories at the end of last season to put Celtic on a brilliant run that hopefully continues for the foreseeable.
Yang’s brilliant performance last night in the 2-1 win over St Mirren was the the prefect parting gift from the 24 year old who will now join up with the South Korean squad for the upcoming Asian games in Saudi Arabia.
The Celtic manager, who deserves great credit for the flying winger’s impressive turnaround, admits his side will miss the talents of the winger over the next few weeks.
Martin O’Neill said: “We are going to miss him. He’s in really fine form at the moment.
“If they don’t win the tournament, then he has to do (national) service. I hope they do win it.
“But he’s signed off with a brilliant goal. He’s in great form and he’ll work for you going backwards. He doesn’t mind doing the hard graft.”
Yang had an ice pack on his leg after going off but Martin said: “He’s OK. If he’d got up a little bit earlier, I think maybe we might have continued with him. But he looked shaken up a bit, so we took him off.”
The veteran Irishman also praised the home side for giving his players plenty of problems especially in a 15 minute period of the first half, but hailed his players for showing great energy and determination to earn all three points in what he described as a tough evening.
“They played very, very well indeed,” the Celtic gaffer said. “Caused us plenty of problems and took the lead. A 10 or 15-minute spell in the first half where I thought we were well and truly second best.
“We came out with renewed energy, renewed determination in the second half, got the equalising goal and went on to win it. But it was a tough evening for us.”
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Yang has finally been given a more settled position, than the flexibility option, he has been used within our club to date.
And having to fill the boots of Maeda, was never going to be an easy task for him?
But has done remarkably well in the role, so far this season imo?
Goal contributions will always help his cause, and delighted that he has added that to his all round game now.
Unfortunately, Seb is still struggling to make his mark within our club still?
A player also that needs to find far more, within the goals contributions, for himself to become more acceptable within our support imo?
Has that Mikey Johnston look about him, with a fairly high skill level, but lacking the end product, with a poor defence side to his game also imo?
But he will still be required, especially over the next couple of weeks?
And his Celtic career could well be on the line, especially when jota returns imo?
So the pressure is going to rise upon Seb, to start delivering more?
Think MoN will move Duran to the left, when Hogh returns, especially with the week that involves 2 Glasgow Derby and the start of our europa league campaign imo?
So would expect Seb to be still involved during that week?
And no better week available for Seb to find the acceptable factor as a player within the majority of our support imo?
The question still remains as to whether he can deliver?
Would like to think so, even if not overly confident at present imo?
The scariest thing about Yang being unavailable? Tounekti gets to play………….FFS!!!!!!