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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Mark Walker

'Goal of a genius' - Belgian World Cup hero in awe of Maeda wondergoal

BELGIAN World Cup hero Marc Degryse reckons Celtic star Daizen Maeda scored the 'perfect goal' and admitted he couldn't believe how he managed it.

The Japanese ace rescued a point for the Hoops with a wonder goal in the second half in a pulsating 1-1 draw against Club Brugge in the Champions League.

And ex-Club Brugge, Anderlecht and Sheffield Wednesday star Degryse, who played in two World Cups, was in awe of the strike in his duties as a Belgian TV pundit.


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He said: "A goal like that is almost impossible to stop.

"It was just a brilliant goal. How Daizen Maeda manages to beat Simon Mignolet from an angle like that I will never know.

"A perfect goal.

"I saw the young defender Joaquin Seys with his head in his hands after the goal and he clearly blamed himself for it.

"But he really shouldn't torture himself about a moment like that. It was a goal of a genius."

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