Oh Hyeon-gyu and Yang Hyn-jun have been named in South Korea’s squad for the Asian Cup.
With the group matches running from January 15 to 25 the Celtic duo won’t be back in Scotland until the trip to Aberdeen on February 4 at the earliest, ruling them out of the Scottish Cup tie at home to Buckie Thistle followed by the SPFL clash with Ross County on January 27.
South Korea have been drawn alongside Bahrain, Jordan and Malaysia in Group E which should provide a fairly straight forward passage for Jurgen Klinsmann’s squad to progress into the knock out stage of the competition.
OH & Yang are in the squad for Asian Cup??? @CelticFC https://t.co/WeghbFxvRn pic.twitter.com/xZdLN3tdGl
— Yatao (@yataoda4) December 28, 2023
Sixteen of the 24 competing nations will go through to the knock-out stage with the final being held on February 10.
The loss of Oh and Yang depletes the options open to Brendan Rodgers with news awaited on the Japan squad. Daizen Maeda and Kyogo Furuhashi seem certain to be included with Reo Hatate a candidate despite being out injured since the end of October.
Marco Tilio has been included in the 26 man Australian squad with players from Hearts, Hibs and St Mirren also involved with Graham Arnold’s squad.
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I’m sorry but Shankland is the man.
The End
WTF does your comment have to do with the article ya numpty!
Read it and you might take it all in that we will need a striker… Big Numpty
I’m all for Shankland 100% plus, plus, plus !
But the recruitment team need sacking for putting Celtic in this position regarding The Asian Cup in such a critical season…
If The Huns get Shankland I think they will walk their way to the title –
While we no doubt get some far flung lightweight project that will need time to ‘ssseeetttlllle iiiinnnn’ (in ma slowest sarcastic voice)…
But we don’t have time for someone to ‘setttttttttttllle innnn’
Shankland IS VERY SETTLED IN here in Scotland…
Go get him Brendan – You can well afford him – Sevco can’t !
There’s absolutely NO WAY we should let Reo join the Japanese squad until he has proven his fitness and played a coupla games for us. Amen.