Celtic’s winger ‘crisis’ eases up
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v St Johnstone - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - December 24, 2022 Celtic's Daizen Maeda in action with St Johnstone's Ryan McGowan REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
At one point over the weekend it seemed that Jota was the last Celtic winger standing.
One by one the squad had been decimated on international duty with worrying bulletins coming in over Liel Abada, Sead Haksabanovic and Daizen Maeda.
Google Translate is decent but not quite the real thing as fans scanned around for updates and news ahead of what will clearly be the decisive month of the season starting at Ross County on Sunday.
Fortunately the doom and gloom predictions have started to clear up, during an Instagram story about Cameron Carter-Vickers there is plenty of footage of Maeda taking a full part in training.
Haksabanovic played 76 minutes for Montenegro against Serbia on Monday night which leaves Abada as the only concern preparing for Sunday, and beyond.
James Forrest has been missing over the last month but is expected to be back to full training soon which leaves midfield the main concern with doubts over the extent of the injuries suffered by Reo Hatate and Aaron Mooy.
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