Brendan Rodgers praised two-purpose daizzen maeda as “symbol of Celtic van How we want to work” after their 5-1 hammering from Aberdeen on Tuesday.
Celtic moved 16 points at the Scottish Premiership top after Maeda opened the score and closed, with Jota, Callum McGregor and Yang Hyun-Jun on Doel in between.
The 90th -minute strike by Shayden Morris turned out to be a purely comfort for Aberdeen, who was third in the table, but a huge 31 points behind Celtic after this banging.
Rodgers reserved special praise for important attacker Maeda, not only because of his goals, but also his ruthless work ethics.
“He is a very important player for us and the symbol of the team and how we want to work,” the Celtic boss told BBC Scotland after Maeda had brought his goal to 25 for the season.
“He is not your traditional number nine, he moves behind, anticipates things in the box when they fall, and is a wonderful example for our team, the work ethics, mentality, humility in it and when he plays wide or centrally, he scores for us. “
Celtic has now won each of their last 10 Home League matches with a total score of 37-1, although this result was as a reaction to the past week.
The League leaders were let the Champions League be thrown out by Bayern Munich before a surprise 2-1 defeat against Hibernian preceded this crushing victory against Aberdeen.
“It is one of the great characteristics of this team that resilience they have to find when we slip,” Rodgers added.
“The answer was very, very good. That is a sign of the team's mentality.”
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The side of Rodgers seems to be sailing in the direction of the top-flight crown, although Jota says that Celtic will not assign in their title loading.
“I think as a Celtic player you always try to do better,” said Jota – who now has six competition goals against Aberdeen, most of his opponent in the competition – Sky Sports told.
“We are no different from that. Even though we have one [16-point] Advantage, this does not mean that we are going to get our foot from the pedal. “
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