{"id":118236,"date":"2025-05-20T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118236\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:56:08","slug":"underrated-celtic-star-named-scottish-premiership-player-of-the-season-despite-daizen-maedas-sparkling-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118236\/","title":{"rendered":"Underrated Celtic star named Scottish Premiership Player of the Season despite Daizen Maeda’s sparkling form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daizen Maeda has had a stunning season for Celtic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brendan Rodgers<\/a> is on the cusp of winning another treble after the Celtic manager wrapped up the League Cup and the Scottish Premiership title.<\/p>\n

Maeda<\/a> has been central to that success and the Japan striker is likely to play a huge part in the Hampden showpiece final on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

But as Maeda continues to hog the limelight, it appears that another of the Celtic first-team<\/a> players has been rated the Scottish Premiership Player of the Season.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesWhoScored names Celtic defender as the best player in the Scottish Premiership<\/p>\n

Liam Scales was rated the Scottish Premiership Player of the Season by football ratings site WhoScored.<\/p>\n

The Republic of Ireland international averaged a rating of 7.48 for the season, making Scales Celtic\u2019s most consistent player according to the website.<\/p>\n

Six Celtic players made the WhoScored<\/a> top ten list with Cameron Carter-Vickers (4th at 7.28), Daizen Maeda (5th at 7.28), Auston Trusty (6th at 7.28), Callum McGregor (7th at 7.28) and Nicolas Kuhn (8th at 7.26).<\/p>\n

Liam Scales\u2019 WhoScored stats at Celtic vs Daizen Maeda<\/p>\n

So the Celtic defender has been rated more consistent than goal machine Daizen Maeda so just what set both players apart?<\/p>\n\nCeltic stats<\/td>\nPlayed<\/td>\nMinutes<\/td>\nGoals<\/td>\nAssists<\/td>\nPassing %<\/td>\nMOTM Awards<\/td>\nAve Rating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLiam Scales<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n1627<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n92<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n7.48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDaizen Maeda<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n2218<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n83.6<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n7.28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Granted, both players have different attributes that have contributed in different ways to Celtic\u2019s success this season but this is nice recognition for Scales who often comes in for unnecessary criticism.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daizen Maeda has had a stunning season for Celtic. Brendan Rodgers is on the cusp of winning another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[10110,94,39696,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-118236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-daizen-maeda","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-liam-scales","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114542633537446878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}