Reo Hatate will miss tomorrow’s Glasgow Derby.
The midfielder picked up an injury in the opening 15 minutes of the 3-1 victory over Hibs on March 18 and missed Sunday’s 2-0 win away to Ross County.
Since the turn of the year Hatate has formed a very effective midfield partnership with Callum McGregor and Aaron Mooy but will now have to sit out the match where a win will put Celtic 12 points clear at the top of the SPFL with seven matches left to play.
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Mooy does return after missing the Ross County match which leaves the Celtic boss to select between Tomoki Iwata and Matt O’Riley for the third midfield place. David Turnbull is another option but was on the bench at Ross County despite Hatate and Mooy being missing.
With Liel Abada and Tony Ralston both missing out the Celtic squad will be a little stretched but the bench is likely to contain players like Oh Hyeon-gyu, Sead Haksabanovic and Turnbull who are all capable of being match-winners.
Hatate will be a big miss for tomorrow.
That’s what we have a top squad for miss his pace in midfield its a close
Call who will play between the three who every runs out we qill still have a strong midfield