Japan legend Shinji Okazaki believes Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi is the most dangerous Japanese player in the world just now.
And he reckons it takes two players to mark him.
Futuhashi drew a rare blank as Celtic were held to a surprise 1-1 draw by Motherwell at the weekend, but is still the top scorer in the Premiership with 23 league goals.
He remains sidelined by his national team though with Japan boss Hajime Moriyasu questioning the quality of the Scottish top flight after ignoring Furuhashi for both the World Cup last year and two games last month.
However, former Leicester City striker Okazaki - who scored 50 international goals in 119 appearances and is still going strong with Belgian outfit Sint-Truiden at the age of 37 - has praised Furuhashi's form this season ahead of this weekend's Scottish Cup semi-final Old Firm showdown.
He said: "Kyogo Furuhashi has set the standard for Japanese goalscorers this season and it is a very high one.
"I have watched him closely and what I like about him is not just the amount of goals he scores, it's his movement.
"You watch him and he moves into places that he probably shouldn't be in and are unrelated to the goal, but that means the opposition isn't following him.
"It's clever. He's actually thinking about where the opposition expects him to be and going elsewhere.
"And more often than not, he has a knack for finding a place where the ball drops to him and he scores.
"I've noticed too that when he does go into dangerous positions, some teams are using two players to mark him because his movement is so good.
"They are scared of his movement and he's the best Japanese player right now in what he does.
"And when you take an extra player out of the opposition defence just to mark him, that gives his team a considerable advantage."
