Daizen Maeda might have been clutching the match ball and a little glass trinket for being named man of the match. But the Celtic attacker still looked like a man who’d found a fiver after losing a tenner.
A first competitive Hoops hat-trick was impressive enough, on top of a typically tireless display that had the Parkhead support saluting their cult hero.
But Maeda admitted there was a hint of frustration he didn’t plunder more goals and make life a heck of a lot easier against Livingston.
The Japan star reckoned he should have scored FIVE against the Lions – rather than relying on his late third to scrape into the Scottish Cup last four.
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