“It’s a big win for us. Daizen Maeda was fantastic,” Martin O’Neill

(Photo by Zak Mauger/Getty Images) Here’s everything that was said at Martin O’Neill’s post-match media conference… Q: Your thoughts on the game? Martin O’Neill : “It’s a big win for us. Daizen Maeda, who was fantastic throughout the game, gets us a goal from really nothing and continues to play brilliantly during the course of the match.

It was tough, I thought if there had been a hangover from Falkirk, they didn’t show it. They come out and they played. The pitch is just immaculate, absolutely brilliant pitch and they’ve got one or two players who definitely can play a bit.

“So I felt in the first half after we got the goal, obviously striving to try and get the second one and it was a wee bit like basketball, we had possession, maybe lost it, they pick it up, you know, and it was like that or it seemed like that for about 15-20 minutes. ” Daizen Maeda celebrates during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Falkirk at Celtic Park on April 25, 2026. (Photo by Zak Mauger/Getty Images) Q: How much of a boost is it to have Daizen Maeda in that sort of form going into the run-in?

Martin O’Neill : “Terrific, really. Last week he gets a goal from nothing as well too, just closing down. But his closing down is amazing really, even in the 85th minute here he closes somebody down right in the corner, about 15 yards from the corner and that’s in the 85th minute.