Yang Hyun-jun scored for the second consecutive league match for Scottish club Celtic ahead of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Yang started Celtic's sixth-round Scottish Premiership road match against St. Mirren at St. Mirren Park in Paisley, Scotland, on Saturday. He scored the go-ahead goal in the 68th minute with the score tied 1-1.
On a counterattack, Yang sprinted forward from near the halfway line, received a pass from Camilo Duran and scored with a right-footed shot from the center of the penalty area.
Yang, who scored his first goal of the season against Aberdeen in the fifth round, celebrated his second goal in as many league matches with a knee slide in front of Celtic's traveling supporters.
Including an assist in the UEFA Champions League qualifying playoffs, Yang has two goals and one assist in all competitions this season.
Celtic won 2-1.
St. Mirren took the lead in the 22nd minute through a penalty kick by Nikolas Agrafiotis. Celtic equalized six minutes after halftime when Liam Scales headed in Benjamin Nygren's corner kick.
Yang's winner gave Celtic five consecutive victories to open the league season and left it alone atop the standings with 15 points.
Yang was selected as an overage player for South Korea's Asian Games team coached by Lee Min-sung.
South Korea will play Qatar in its opening group match Sept. 15. Yang will travel to Japan and join the national team following Saturday's match.
According to The Irish News, Celtic manager Martin O'Neill said after the match: "We are going to miss him. He's in really fine form at the moment.
"If they don't win the tournament, then he has to do national service. I hope they do win it."
Yang was substituted in the 70th minute after colliding with an opposing player. He received treatment with an ice pack on his knee after leaving the field.
"He's OK," O'Neill said. "If he'd got up a little bit earlier, I think maybe we might have continued with him. But he looked shaken up a bit, so we took him off."
(This article was produced with the assistance of AI. — Ed.)
