Who should play up front for Celtic against Hamilton Accies?

All will be revealed at 6.45pm tomorrow but until then the main subject of conversation among Celtic fans will be centred on who will lead the line against Hamilton Accies.

Moussa Dembele has been trusted with the task most of the season but has lost his goal touch over the last few weeks.

Stepping into his boots at Firhill on Friday was Leigh Griffiths who took his opportunity with one goal and two assists.

Dembele earned his place in the side when Griffiths picked up an early season hamstring injury- and has barely looked back.

A hat-trick against Sevco and a double against Manchester City made everyone sit up and take notice, for Celtic fans a long list of striking failures suddenly came to a halt.

Griffiths has had to take his medicine, look on from the sidelines and also feel the hamstring injury return after an outing for Scotland against England at Wembley.

Rodgers will almost certainly have decided on his team to face Hamilton, for fun only have your say on the final page on what you want to see in attack against the Accies.

MOUSSA DEMBELE

One goal in five games isn’t the best of records but the former Fulham man has played his part in the success of the team.

Playing as a sole striker is a very demanding task that few players genuinely look comfortable in, at the age of 20 Dembele’s ability makes a mockery of his birth certificate.

Every striker goes through spells when they struggle in front of goal but the best of them bounce back just as quickly and pop goals in for fun

LEIGH GRIFFITHS

After last season’s 40 goal haul few would have predicted that Griffiths would be playing second fiddle to anyone this season.

He started the season on fire, scoring important goals in Europe and creating a great debut day goal for Scott Sinclair at Tynecastle.

Since being out of favour he’s blown hot and cold, away to Ross County he looked an angry man, last week against Thistle he looked the perfect team-mate as he created two for Stuart Armstrong and pinged one away for himself.

DEMBELE AND GRIFFITHS

Rodgers is flexible enough to vary his side but certainly seems to believe that at present a five man midfield, split 2/3, supporting one striker brings better returns than a traditional 4-4-2.

The classic exception to that was at Hampden in the semi-final of the Betfred Cup. Griffiths was pushed on play up front with Dembele with the two men combining to create the only goal of the game.

There’s little doubt that the two players can combine, it’s simply a case of whether the manager feels that they add more to the team when played together.



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