Ki Sung Yeung returns to the Celtic side to face Atletico Madrid tonight with Gary Hooper dropping onto the bench.
Neil Lennon has made just one change to the team that beat St Mirren 5-0 on Saturday with hat-trick ‘hero’ Hooper making way for Ki to form a five man midfield in support of Anthony Stokes.
Scott Brown and Charlie Mulgrew return after lengthy absences to take their place on the bench in a game that Celtic must win to have a realistic hope of qualifying for the knock out stage of the tournament.
CELTIC: Forster; Matthews, Majstorovic, Loovens, Ledley; Samaras, Kayal, Wanyama, Ki, Forrest; Stokes
SUBS: Zaluska, Hooper, McCourt, Brown, Mulgrew, Bangura, F Twardzik.
why 5 man midfield?? 🙁 we’re at home, we need to attack and we need samaras, or anyone, to support stokes up front
Mark, the quality of opposition is the reason. Neil is trying to contain them. If we played 4-4-2 and got tanked everyone would be rattling on about Neil’s tactical nievity.
Good team choice by Lennon I think
Would have liked to have seen the hooper stokes partnership from the start. They’re bang on form at the moment