Not sure. Not on the bench so presuming he’s injured. No warning of it though.
Hearts team:
McDonald
Hamill Webster Zaliukas Grainger
Black Mrowiec Jonsson Skacel Stevenson Templeton
Not sure who the striker will be. Stevenson or Skacel probably.
Kayal has a thigh injury.
I think Stevenson does the front man role when required.
A well deserved honour for Charlie Mulgrew, who captains Celtic today.
Think we should win this one, still a strong enough team out there although the defence scares me. El Kaddouri looks shit and Majstorovic is petrifying.
Hope Bangura plays well but I’d have preferred Stokes and Hooper due to their great understanding. Also hoping Wanyama puts in a similar shift to Thursday.
It’s a good sign that we can survive Kayal, Ledley and Brown missing out and still put a decent midfield together. Lennon sounds confident in Commons and let’s hope he can deliver.
Still looks an okay team but we’ve sometimes been too open with two wingers playing, especially with the defence we have. Granted we don’t have options in midfield with Brown, Kayal and Ledley all injured so there’s no midfielder to play tucked in from a wide position.
I’d hope we’d be more alive to that today but that’s the risk alright. I think Matthews at right back will be important against Templeton but with Forrest in front of him we’ll be able to ask questions of them on that side too.
Commons may have to be a bit more disciplined in tucking in to help a bit and I expect Hooper to drop behind Bangura a bit and stop their central three of knocking it about too easily.
I really wish someone would inform all commentators of the current offside ruling.
What the fuck was going on there? Was it Ki who was asleep and let Stevenson behind?
El Kaddouri is rotten.
Commons has been started off poorly, has lost his footing on a number of occasions now.
Fucking hell, close again. El Kaddouri was slow out that time.
That’s true but I’ve been impressed with the areas he’s taking up which was one of the problems at the start of the season when he was struggling to get involved. He’s picked up a few nice positions inside and ahead of the central two. Hopefully the touch will come as the game goes on.
Fucking hell Bangura.
Very poor so far. Launching aimless balls up the field which are coming straight back at us.
Fuck that was a great chance. Great cross from Forrest - in fairness to Bangura it was a tricky one to get power on because it was a dink across.
Wonderful play by Forrest, been our biggest threat so far.
no, his eyes are always like that mate
Wasteful from Bangura there from a good position when we had 4v4.