Ange Postecoglou confirms three absentees for Motherwell match
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Celtic will be without three key players against Motherwell tomorrow.
Defenders Carl Starfelt and Cameron Carter-Vickers missed the 2-0 defeat away to St Mirren and will be joined on the sidelines tomorrow by Giorgos Giakoumakis who spent the international break with the Greece squad.
Tomorrow’s match against Motherwell shouldn’t present too much of a problem but Wednesday’s game away to RB Leipzig is a much more daunting proposition.
Despite injury concerns during the international break Daizen Maeda and Sead Haksabanovic are available for tomorrow’s game.
Ange Postecoglou has confirmed that Giorgos Giakoumakis, Carl Starfelt and Cameron Carter-Vickers will miss out on tomorrow’s match against Motherwell.
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Stephen Welsh and Moritz Jenz are likely to play in central defence with Kyogo Furuhashi starting his eighth SPFL match of the season.
With a rush of 13 matches between tomorrow and November 12 Postecoglou can’t afford to take any risk with any of his injured players.
Starfelt last played on September 3 when he picked up a knee injury in the Glasgow derby, that match was only the second SPFL that he had resumed his partnership with Carter-Vickers.
Bosun Lawal took part in first team training on Thursday but the former Watford defender has still to make his competitive debut.