Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Rangers vs Celtic - Ibrox, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - January 2, 2023 Rangers' John Lundstram in action with Celtic's Alistair Johnston Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Celtic are still waiting to discover the extent of the facial injury that Alistair Johnston suffered during the 2-1 win away to Hibs in midweek.
Within the first five minutes of the match the defender was laid out cold with the award of a penalty kick barely any consolation as Johnston was stretchered off then taken to hospital.
It looked a very nasty incident that further reduced the options in defence with Celtic already without Cameron Carter-Vickers and Greg Taylor.
Four days after the incident at Easter Road Tony Ralston stood in for Johnston in the 2-0 Scottish Cup win over St Mirren with Rodgers still waiting to discover the extent of the Canadian’s injury- and a timeline for his return.
The Daily Record reports:
Meanwhile there is still uncertainty over Johnston’s absence with a fractured skull suffered at Easter Road last midweek Rodgers said: “We’re just waiting to see again on him. A slight fracture on the side.
“The thinking is we’ll have a look in 10 days to see where he’s at. But it could be 10 days to four weeks. We’ll just have to wait and see.”
Ralston looks set to continue against Kilmarnock on Saturday and Motherwell the following weekend with the Scotland man a more than adequate back up in that position.
Yes poor tackle player wasn’t looking at the ball another Celtic player out through a poor challenge and no red card even some pundits saying it was accidental Rodgers has been unfairly questioned about his coaching when was the last time he has been allowed to pock the same team three ir even two games in a row got players back from asian cup now we still have Taylor haita johnston carter vickers out abda us just back we have two new players settling in these that take time our some fans are shouting for the board to be sacked I’d like to sack the idiot with the Palestinian flag must sicken abda against st mirren we seen confidence coming back wining second ball against a team that sit in (park the bus) goalkeeper takes all free kicks inside their half high ball into box and corners our defence cope well st mirren had one good chance from a high ball into box missed header by kiltie golak hit the bar when ball fell at his feet Hart pulled off a great save from a overhead kick by same player can go anywhere our midfield fought for everything defence were rugged against a bug forward bernina played well now he’s had a few games yes I think fans went home pleased no negative thoughts I must say the pitch could have been a leveler no roller was on that pitch since last game
I prefer big Tony, great big Heart and puts in a tremendous amount of work, Tony has many great assets in the team, Johnston is only slightly quicker.
Tony is a better match winner in my opinion.
Both are good Celtic players.
Hail Hail.