"Carnage, just carnage" as the Celtic defender Liam Scales said in the aftermath. The tension, the drama, the lost-soul demeanour of Ridvan Yilmaz as he walked back to the halfway line having had his penalty saved by Kasper Schmeichel.
Maeda carries himself like a man who laughs in the face of pressure, who pokes a finger in the eye of stressful situations such as this. At no point did you really get a feeling that he was going to miss.
Rangers looked stunned and sickened, as well they might. Of all the blows that Celtic have inflicted on them in recent seasons, this has to be the most painful.
You have to think so. Those were heavy beatings with no excruciating what-might-have-beens attached. Regret was the difference.
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