‘One of the best I’ve seen…’ BBC pundit wowed by Celtic star who ‘frightens me’ after win v Dundee

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Another enjoyable evening for the players at Celtic Park.

Celtic hit Dundee for six on Wednesday night, one week before the Bayern Munich game, and moved 13 points clear at the top of the table.

Normally, in these types of matches, you want to make it as simple as possible and the champions did just that when Arne Engels opened the scoring after 18 minutes.

It came via the penalty spot – after VAR overturned the on-field call – before Adam Idah scored again, Daizen Maeda netted two brilliant goals and Nicolas Kuhn added to Engels’ long-range strike after coming off the bench.

All in all, it was an enjoyable evening for Brendan Rodgers’ side, but it left one man watching from the commentary box at Celtic Park amazed.

Lee Miller explains what ‘frightens’ him about Daizen Maeda after Celtic thrash Dundee

Jota started his first game for Celtic since returning to the club last month, and surprise, surprise, he was dancing around the pitch, producing great football and linking up superbly well with Maeda.

The Portuguese star produced a brilliant ball towards the far post for Maeda’s first goal, but it was his second that impressed Lee Miller the most, as he told BBC Radio Scotland.

The former striker shared that it ‘frightens me’ how the Japan star ‘never looks tired’, including how his second goal against Dundee was ‘one of the best goals I have seen’, after he chipped the opposition goalkeeper from just outside of the penalty area after a brilliant through ball from Engels.

“The thing that frightens me, he, [Daizen Maeda], never looks tired,” said Miller. “He is a defender’s nightmare. I do not know where he gets the energy from.

“That goal he scored tonight, [his second, chipping Trevor Carson], that’s one of the best goals I’ve seen. The finish is top drawer. I felt sorry for Trevor Carson tonight; the finishes were top, top-drawer. They were phenomenal.”

Maeda’s stats for Celtic this season

There has been a lot of talk around Kuhn this season and his improvement, but the man on the other side has also taken his game to another level.

Those two will be fighting hard to become Celtic’s Player of the Year because you presume it’s between them.

That end product from Maeda has gone up a level, and when you add in his work rate, he has become rather difficult to stop.