Oh Hyeon-gyu and Yang Hyun-jun are expected back at Lennoxtown before the end of this week after Jordan knocked South Korea out of the Asian Cup at the semi-final stage.
With Daizen Maeda pictured at training yesterday and expected to be in the squad for tonight’s match at Hibs the Asian Cup factor is almost over after Celtic sent five players off to the tourney following the January 2 win away to St Mirren.
Oh was left on the bench for the defeat from Jordan with Yang introduced in the 81st minute with South Korea trailing 2-0.
Jordan defeated Korea, so OH & Yang back to Glasgow. ??&?? have great talents, but teams with excellent tactics defeated them in Asian Cup. Realized again there’s limit to style that depends on players’ quality, and there’re many things that are more important than possession. pic.twitter.com/FBsZCF9tHX
— Yatao (@yataoda4) February 6, 2024
Both players will find their status at Celtic under threat with Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah arriving as almost direct competition for their places.
Strong cases can be made for both of the January arrivals to start tonight’s match away to Hibs as Brendan Rodgers tries to get his squad back to winning ways following the draw away to Aberdeen.
Greg Taylor is expected to be in contention for Sunday’s match away to St Mirren leaving Cameron Carter-Vickers and Reo Hatate as the only players in the treatment room.
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Yes getting players back from asian cup lost one through injury maeda will he start tonight or abda or kuhn or will he drop palma to bench move one of the three to left maeda has played there abda is not up to match fitness but if you don’t play how do u get match fit no matter what Who Rodgers goes for to tweak things in tactics which he will now he has the tools we have to sort out the pressing half hearted from last season maybe refs are to fussy with how hard hoops tackle seems a foul then a booking to the bhoys in hoops and let off for opposition you can see the frustration by players they know it’s a fair tackle yet are penalised let’s get this done we have top players and stop giving Hart the ball in impossible positions punt then win it what teams have been doing to us
Even though he couldn’t score in a brothel – I guess having Oh back gives another option limited as it is…
But it really should’ve been Shankland or Miovski in there instead !