That included Celtic\u2019s 2-1 win at Hibernian<\/a> on Sunday afternoon, with the likes of Daizen Maeda, Arne Engels, Kasper Schmeichel, Liam Scales and Auston Trusty all producing strong displays.<\/p>\n But Chris Sutton<\/a> wanted to give his flowers to Celtic\u2019s midfield maestro Reo Hatate<\/a>. <\/p>\n Who is your man of the match? Hatate supplied the assist for Celtic\u2019s opening goal<\/a>, forcing Hibs\u2019 backline into a mistake and then laying the ball off to Maeda to tap into an empty net. <\/p>\n Under Brendan Rodgers, the Japan star just wasn\u2019t himself, and there were far too many games when he looked a shadow of the player, who could argue he is Celtic\u2019s best player on his day.<\/p>\n But at Easter Road, Sutton told Sky Sports Football<\/a> (30\/11\/25) that Hatate looks a \u2018totally different player\u2019 under O\u2019Neill\u2019s stewardship. <\/p>\n \u201cI have to say Hatate under Martin O\u2019Neill has looked a totally different player, hasn\u2019t he?! said Sutton. \u201cHe really struggled, like many at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n Sum up that win in one word All of this isn\u2019t a good look on Rodgers because the players were playing nowhere near this level at the start of the season. <\/p>\n Yes, the players themselves need to take responsibility, but Rodgers can\u2019t hide away from how the team declined this season.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s why Celtic fans want O\u2019Neill to stay<\/a>, because when he is at his best, then the champions of Scotland<\/a> can beat anyone. <\/p>\n Minutes played: 77Assists: 1Big chances created: 1Passes in the opposition half: 16\/18 (89%)Accurate long balls: 1Touches: 40Clearances: 1Recoveries: 1Sofascore: 7.2 Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Martin O\u2019Neill train keeps on rolling, and the Celtic fans are loving every minute of it. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,113572,10760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-320738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-martin-oneill","12":"tag-reo-hatate","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Arne](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2248602005-1024x640.jpg\")
Photo by WM Sport Media\/Getty Images Reo Hatate under Martin O\u2019Neill <\/p>\n![\"Arne](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hibs-vs-Celtic-FT-1024x576.jpg\")
Arne Engels scores Celtic\u2019s second goal against Hibernian
\nCredit: Getty Images\/WM Sport Media Hatate\u2019s numbers for Celtic against Hibernian<\/p>\n