diff --git a/lib/tokenlist.cpp b/lib/tokenlist.cpp
index 55ca98c628c..7f7ca25aa5c 100644
--- a/lib/tokenlist.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenlist.cpp
@@ -1058,12 +1058,10 @@ static void compilePrecedence2(Token *&tok, AST_state& state)
             else
                 compileUnaryOp(tok, state, compileExpression);
             tok = tok2->link()->next();
-        } else if ((Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-1), "requires {") && tok->tokAt(-1)->isKeyword())
-                   || (Token::simpleMatch(tok->tokAt(-1), ")")
+        } else if (Token::simpleMatch(tok->previous(), "requires {")
+                   || (Token::simpleMatch(tok->previous(), ")")
                        && tok->linkAt(-1)
-                       && Token::simpleMatch(tok->linkAt(-1)->tokAt(-1), "requires (") && tok->linkAt(-1)->tokAt(-1)->isKeyword())) {
-            if (!tok->link())
-                throw InternalError(tok, "Syntax error, token has no link.", InternalError::AST);
+                       && Token::simpleMatch(tok->linkAt(-1)->previous(), "requires ("))) {
             tok->astOperand1(state.op.top());
             state.op.pop();
             state.op.push(tok);
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 7a33f757737..f78899820b2 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -8332,12 +8332,6 @@ class TestTokenizer : public TestFixture {
 
     void cppKeywordInCSource() {
         ASSERT_NO_THROW(tokenizeAndStringify("int throw() {}", dinit(TokenizeOptions, $.cpp = false)));
-
-        const char code[] = "void requires(const char*);\n" // #14613
-                            "void f() { requires(\"abc\"); }\n";
-        ASSERT_NO_THROW(tokenizeAndStringify(code, dinit(TokenizeOptions, $.cpp = false)));
-        ASSERT_NO_THROW(tokenizeAndStringify(code, dinit(TokenizeOptions, $.cpp = true, $.cppstd = Standards::CPP17)));
-        ASSERT_THROW_INTERNAL(tokenizeAndStringify(code, dinit(TokenizeOptions, $.cpp = true, $.cppstd = Standards::CPP20)), AST);
     }
 
     void cppcast() {