"The minute you looked to see where the cross was coming in from, Larsson would disappear. Honestly, you would swear sometimes that he had vanished into thin air. He was invisible at times."
Those are the words of former Motherwell and Partick Thistle defender Stephen Craigan, describing what it was like to try and defend against Henrik Larsson.
You may have noticed from this article's photo that your writer is about to delve into a few paragraphs on Kyogo Furuhashi so let me be clear, in no way am I proffering the Japanese international is as good as or will go on to emulate, Celtic's Magnificent Seven. For a start, the club will probably have sold him on for a nice profit by the end of summer 2023 if he carries on at this rate.
A parallel can be drawn, though, with their shared ability to evade markers.
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Granted, supporters have seen him play for only 211 minutes so far, but this isn't hyperbolic, the evidence shows Furuhashi thrives at living life on the edge. His elusion is a different type to the Swede's heydey speciality, as Craigan recognises by recalling the importance of not being able to blink in the box.
Furuhashi's USP is his darting run in behind.
He's like a pirate's parrot, constantly on the last defender's shoulder and one step ahead of those whose duty it is to quell him.
His first goal for the club came from that exact position over in Jablonec. He found space between the defenders, bang in line, and collected Bitton's through-ball to take him clear and into a one-on-one situation.
Against Dundee, his third came from the speed of thought, and legs, to get past the defender and into a position to collect Ryan Christie's immaculate pass.
On Thursday in the return leg, he was played through on goal at least three times to stare down their goalkeeper, scoring once but being denied by the assistant's judgement. It was touch and go. Furuhashi will probably be the most flagged player in the league this season, but the risk/reward approach and his intelligence should bear fruit. Assistant referees will be tearing their hair out making snap decisions on whether the 26-year-old accelerated a fraction early or not and have sleepless nights at the number of times the Sky Sports or BBC cameras prove they wrongly flagged. He's a nightmare for them as well as the opposition.
Larsson's movement benefited players like Alan Thompson and Didier Agathe who delivered from wide areas. I suppose John Hartson and Chris Sutton can also fall into an adjacent category with Larsson working from knock-downs.
For Furuhashi, he's begging players like David Turnbull, Ryan Christie and Callum McGregor to do exactly what they're good at... break lines with defence-splitting passes. He requires so much attention too, his decoy runs should create space for Liel Abada, James Forrest, Ryan Christie or whoever is joining the cavalry.
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He experiences the game on the edge, and that's exactly what excites supporters, whom he'll have on the edges of their seats time after time throughout the season.
The Celtic support has already fallen in love.
Four goals in two starts could easily have become five in three on Thursday if the assistant judged Furuhashi's run slightly differently or if the striker had been clinical instead of trying to round the goalkeeper in the first half.
His ability to spot and find space is an absolutely frightening prospect. As former Dunfermline centre-half, Lee Bullen recalls: "He [Larsson] played on the cusp of offside but at the right time he would step onside and make his runs and exploit the gaps that were there. There was a real intelligence and subtlety about his play."
That trait certainly resembles Furuhashi's early signs since his arrival in Glasgow.
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