Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Aberdeen - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - July 31, 2022 Celtic players in a huddle before the match REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Scott Bain and Yang Hyun-jun come in to the Celtic side for today’s match at Motherwell following the 3-0 win at Livingston.
Joe Hart’s suspension opens the door for Bain’s first start of the season while Yang replaces James Forrest who was substituted when Hart was sent off 30 minutes into last week’s game.
Despite being suspended for Wednesday’s match against Lazio Gus Lagerbielke starts alongside Liam Scales for the third match running with Nat Phillips returning as a substitute.
Celtic have been bolstered by contract extensions for Matt O’Riley, Reo Hatate and Tony Ralston as they look to maintain a 100% record away from home in the SPFL.
Willie Collum will referee today’s match, fresh from his controversial appearance at Ibrox in midweek for the visit of Livingston.
CELTIC: Bain; Johnston, Lagerbielke, Scales, Taylor; McGregor, Hatate, O’Riley; Yang, Kyogo, Maeda
SUBS: Siegrist, Phillips, Palma, Turnbull, Holm, Oh, Iwata, Forrest, Ralston.
Hope Bain plays well today – but is he our second choice keeper now?
Am I missing something?
If Siegrist is not good enough to be second choice keeper,
then the solution should have been to bring a better keeper,
as first or second choice.
‘Promoting’ the 3rd choice, 31 year old Bain seems like just the cheap option?
And if Hart was to get sent off in a CL game…? 🙁
I expect wee ‘William’ Collum to cause chaos for The Hoops…
Well, Well, Well – You’ve heard it here first, though it’s not difficult to predict –
Sincerely hope I’m wrong of course !
His name is Reo and he dances on the pitch,
he strolls through game without even a glitch,all the other teams try to kick him off the pitch,but he just laughs at them and says I’m stinking rich.
I don’t know why Turnbull doesn’t start? Same thing last week against Livingstone!
Obviously manager prefers Hatate, but there’s been goals inTurnbull and you ought to start with your strongest team!