Great Expectations

Yang was given a regular starting role at Celtic last season and so far this. Is improvement and progression evident or has Yang been Pipped?

On the latest Huddle Breakdown, I noted that Yang Hyun-Jun’s final third work was “horrible”. That is intemperate by the targets I usually set for myself. Binary descriptions of players, or rather anathema to them, is one of the reasons I started Celtic By Numbers in the first place.

Therefore, in the spirit of eating my own dog food, I should redeem myself with a more thoughtful piece on the hard working South Korean.

In the rest of this piece for subscribers, you will see how his 2025-26 season (47 appearances) compares with the prior two, where he was mainly used as a substitute.

Then, you will see how his performance numbers compare to other wide forwards.