Reo Hatate

Amazebaws all day..

Phenomenal performance that had everything..

 

That's the Hatate we know. On that form he's our best player, no doubt about it.

Hopefully continues this now.

 

Best, performance in ages.

 

Looks much sharper now. Was probably not 100% fit before.

 

Unplayable today

absolute maestro

 

Great performance today.

 

Looking a lot more like the Reo of last season, very good today.

 

That’s the Reo we all know and love. Absolutely fantastic performance.

 

It’s mad to me that after weeks of struggling a player can wake up one morning and put in a performance like that, after a lot of struggling for form, to absolutely top of his game. When he turns up like that, there’s few players I’ve seen for us that could dominate and entertain like that. Probably only Lubo

 

Will the real Hatate please stand up! Some class moments today. Keep this up son.

 

Looks back. Hopefully kicks on.

 

Brendan Rodgers lifts lid on special Reo Hatate Celtic coaching session as Japanese shines in win over Kilmarnock
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers revealed how a personal one-to-one coaching clinic with Reo Hatate helped bring out the best in the Japanese midfielder.


Hatate scored Celtic’s first goal in the 3-1 win over Kilmarnock and claimed an inadvertent assist for the second, scored by Luis Palma, in a man-of-the-match performance. Rodgers felt it was the first time that Hatate had “come alive for me” and hoped the player would continue to operate with that conviction.

He said: “I went through things with him the other day. If he wants to get to the highest level, there needs to be more intensity in his game. I took him through clips of his game, all without the ball. If you press the game well you will pass it well. But he took it on board, was very open and produced a fantastic performance today. That’s the level, you can’t switch the engine on and off.



At the highest level against the best players, you have to turn up every week. That’s the challenge for him. He’s not young, he’s 25, but at that level of intensity, everything else is then natural for him. It’s my job as a coach to help him stay at that level. This was the first game that Reo has come alive for me. He has to press the game and when he is at that level, then he is intense with the ball. He scored a brilliant goal and he was superb.”

 

Far better today, I think also his nightmares were mostly the Feyenoord and Lazio games which involved constant running back and forth deep and forward.

Today Kilmarnock hardly got out their own half and he was barely ever coming back so easier with the game confined to their half.

 

Been more than that. His efforts been same as usual but his quality on the ball has been non-existent. We’ve seen that happen with him when he’s no been fit, dont know if thats the case of hes just getting back to a full level of fitness

 

One of Brendan’s really strong points is man management and improving players, great to see it paying off and Hatate taking it in then proving he’s up to it as we all know he is

 

Absolutely on it today. That's what we've been missing in the middle recently!

 

More like it today.