Kyogo Furuhashi couldn't hide his delight as he delivered a five word verdict on Celtic's win over Rangers.
The Hoops striker was the Hampden hero once again with his double securing back to back League Cup triumphs. He fired two goals in the final last season and he repeated the trick as Ange Postecoglou's men retained their grip on the trophy and inflicted a first defeat on Michael Beale since he took over the Ibrox hot seat from Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
The win also keeps Celtic's hopes of a domestic Treble alive and kicking with the first of three trophies in the cabinet. The champions hold a nine point lead over their Old Firm rival at the top of the Premiership and are in the box seat to make it two successive league wins with just 12 games to play - including two derby showdowns. They also are just two games away from the Scottish Cup Final with Hearts up next at Tynecastle at the quarter-final stage.
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But it is the League Cup celebrations that are taking centre stage in the past 24 hours for Celtic with Kyogo taking to his social media to upload two goal celebrations and a snap with him holding the trophy aloft. He wrote: "So proud of this team!!."
Joe Hart commented: "Hero."
Josip Juranovic added: "Kyogoaaaaaaaaaal."
While his old club Vissel Kobe posted three clapping emojis.
Reacting to the win over Rangers, Postecoglou said: “It’s a cup final and rarely will one side dominate, although I thought we were fantastic in terms of our football, in such a big game with the atmosphere the way it was.
'We still scored two great goals and we had an opportunity to break the game open, but credit to Rangers, they stuck in there and went a bit more direct and we had to defend a lot.'
“And obviously when they got the goal they got a bit of encouragement from that, but again, this time is not just one-dimensional and it’s not just about what we do when we’ve got the ball.
“They’re a real resilient group of players and we had to defend. The back four were outstanding in dealing with what they had to, in terms of crosses, and the guys in front of them continued to work hard.
“We had to navigate a sticky patch then, but we finished strongly and probably should have put the game away, but overall I thought we earned it tonight by doing all facets of the game.”
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