{"id":443461,"date":"2025-09-22T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:32:11","slug":"chris-davies-backs-kyogo-furuhashi-to-rediscover-celtic-form-after-birmingham-city-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443461\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Davies backs Kyogo Furuhashi to rediscover Celtic form after Birmingham City struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chris Davies has defended Kyogo Furuhashi as the striker looks to score his first league goal for Birmingham City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been a difficult start for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> hero since his move to the Championship club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/kyogo-furuhashi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyogo<\/a> has only scored one goal so far this season, coming in the Carabao Cup, and drew another blank again despite the Blues\u2019 94th minute winner vs Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>There are some concerns about the Japan international\u2019s form, but the former Celtic assistant manager has backed him to get back to his best.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2232825469-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Kyoyo Furuhashi looks on during Leicester City vs Birmingham City\" class=\"wp-image-319331\" \/>Photo by Malcolm Couzens\/Getty ImagesChris Davies addresses Kyogo Furuhashi form<\/p>\n<p>Having spent almost \u00a310m on the forward, Birmingham were expecting goals from their marquee arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Panic stations aren\u2019t settling in just yet, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/chris-davies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davies<\/a> has told fans that the 30-year-old will come good.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHe gets chances, that\u2019s what I say about Kyogo. There was another one that came back to him and he\u2019s done an overhead kick, and it\u2019s hit the guy in the face. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will score. He will score, I don\u2019t doubt it. You just have to look at the stats, look at the amount of goals he scores. He does know how to score goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I love about Kyogo is whenever he is on the pitch, I\u2019m very confident he\u2019s going to get a chance and that\u2019s an exciting player to have. I have no worries about Kyogo. I thought he injected good speed and good energy at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyogo Furuhashi should look towards Kelechi Iheanacho as the inspiration for form<\/p>\n<p>While Furuhashi struggles to make his mark down south, the same can\u2019t be said for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/kelechi-iheanacho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelechi Iheanacho<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since his post-deadline day arrival, the forward has grabbed a goal and an assist from his first two appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old came in with a point to prove, like Birmingham\u2019s new signing, and now Kyogo can look at Iheanacho as the perfect example of how to silence the doubters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Davies has defended Kyogo Furuhashi as the striker looks to score his first league goal for Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,29405,393,4884,10109,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-443461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chris-davies","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-kyogo-furuhashi","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248441293434926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443461","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=443461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}