{"id":342251,"date":"2025-08-13T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342251\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:17:13","slug":"kyogo-nets-first-goal-since-leaving-celtic-with-poachers-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342251\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyogo nets first goal since leaving Celtic with poacher\u2019s finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi scored his first goal since leaving Celtic this evening. The Japanese Internationalist found the net in his second outing for Birmingham City, but this was the first time he\u2019d scored since leaving Celtic. <\/p>\n<p>Kyogo left Celtic in January for Ligue 1 side Rennes but failed to register after the \u20ac10m move. However, he netted with a poacher\u2019s finish for Chris Davies\u2019 Blues. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-lazy tweet-img lazyload\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sheffield United fans, look away \ud83e\udee3<\/p>\n<p>Ky\u014dgo Furuhashi capitalises on some woeful play at the back from the Blades to open the scoring for the Blues \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZl7SCy1hx\">pic.twitter.com\/SZl7SCy1hx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ITV Football (@itvfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvfootball\/status\/1955708394527986100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 165 appearances for Celtic, Kyogo scored 85 goals and assisted on 19 occasions. It was clear that the forward was looking for a move when he switched to CAA Base just a year after signing a longterm deal. Brendan Rodgers confirmed that the frontman wanted to make a move. <\/p>\n<p>Birmingham are hugely ambitious but they are a Championship club. It remains to be seen whether the Japanese FA view this as a good enough level to encourage a call up for the World Cup next summer.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Celtic striker Kyogo Furuhashi scored his first goal since leaving Celtic this evening. The Japanese Internationalist found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-342251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115023776875650832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342251","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=342251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}