No McGregor (injured) or Abada (Yom Kippur) for Celtic against Betis tomorrow night. Taylor will be out for a while - needs shoulder surgery. Forrest out for another week to 10 days too.
Probably Ralston and Juranovic as full backs. Our midfield will be badly lacking without McGregor. Soro is the obvious replacement but McCarthy probably more suited to trying to keep the ball.
We’re looking a bit vulnerable now with the lack of depth in midfield and without Kyogo’s movement up front.
Along the lines of:
Hart
Ralston
CCV
Starfelt
Juranovic
Soro
McCarthy
Rogic/Turnbull
Jota
Ajeti
Montgomery
???
Any word on when Johnston is due back?
This is far more interesting tournament at this stage than the CL
We could get a real doing tomorrow. Ange has said again we won’t be changing our formation or style for anyone.
That’s ten players who either barely featured last season or are completely new to the club. Only Turnbull played with any regularity and he didn’t feature for the first few months.
wait till you check out the conference league…unreal
The Irish soccer fan has Spurs & Lincoln Red Imps to cheer on
We are really light in midfield. At least in attack you can say it’s unlucky 4 or 5 out at the same time and in a few weeks we will be fine but midfield, we are only missing McGregor and have no suitable replacement.
A bench full of defenders and defensive midfielders.
Ange obviously rates CCV, Welsh can feel hard done by.
I think Welsh picked up a knock for Scotland Under 21s and that’s why he was rested at the weekend when CCV did well. I’m not sure Ange is Welsh’s biggest fan though. He does seem quick to drop hi.
No attacking or creative options at all on the bench.
What a fucking poster! * like something from a festival
*the team announcement. Not you fulvio
It was a double entendre.
We have two keepers on the bench. Is that normal?
Need a big game from Rogic tonight in carrying the ball and linking the midfield with that attack. Hard to think we’ve ever put out a team with fewer Celtic appearances between them collectively.
Ah ya. Milan for instance had two on the bench last night. Usually just a matter of filling the bench with whoever is available.
I wonder if Joaquin has made more appearances for Betis than our entire starting eleven have for Celtic. @gola please investigate and report back.
Joaquin is some character … still going strong at 40… didn’t his mother breastfeed him til he was 7 or 8?
Joaquin has 439 pro appearances for Betis, from what I’ve totted up.
The entire Celtic 11 have 401 appearances for Celtic as far as I’ve totted up.
That’s fairly incredible.
Joe Hart captain.
