Celtc will attempt to bounce again from their shock defeat at St Mirren with out Cameron Carter-Vickers and Carl Starfelt after the star stoppers have been dominated out of Saturday’s conflict with Motherwell.
Damage issues may even imply there isn't a place for Giorgos Giakoumakis up entrance however gaffer Ange Postecoglou’s greatest headache is on the again the place USA worldwide Carter-Vickers and Sweden’s Starfelt have been badly missed in Paisley a fortnight in the past. Stephen Welsh and Moritz Jenz deputised in defence that day and are prone to maintain their locations with Postecoglou insisting his group gained’t be derailed by their first league defeat in a 12 months.
The Celtic boss stated: “Giakoumakis has pulled up a bit sore. He'll miss the Motherwell recreation, however I’m assured after that he shouldn’t be too distant. All the different ones like Carl and Cameron have been injured previous to the worldwide break, and they're going to nonetheless be lacking for Motherwell. Carl continues to be most likely a few weeks away.
“Cameron although is a day-to-day proposition, it’s actually not one thing that can maintain him out lengthy and even medium time period. For the time being, he's doing particular person coaching, so we’ll see how he's after the weekend after which make our determination about RB Leipzig in midweek.”
Postecoglou has had the worldwide break to mull over that painful defeat to St Mirren that ended an virtually year-long undefeated streak within the Premiership for the Aussie’s facet. Whereas it will be greater than comprehensible for the 57-year-old to make modifications in a requirement for a much better efficiency, the cool headed boss insisted there shall be no knee-jerk response to it.
He added: “You’re clearly disillusioned whenever you lose any recreation of soccer. However you need to apply perspective to those issues. It’s not like earlier than once we have been profitable we thought we have been unbeatable.
“We knew –and I’ve stated all alongside – that we're a group that also creating and progressing. We didn’t carry out on the day, St Mirren did carry out on the day, so we’ve analysed the sport the identical means we analyse each recreation and given the suggestions to the gamers and now we transfer on to the following problem. Other than being disillusioned since you by no means need to lose a recreation of soccer, it’s all about ensuring the way in which we go about our enterprise doesn’t change due to one final result.”
In the meantime, the SPFL have confirmed that Celtic’s dwelling match with Livingston, postponed because of the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth, shall be performed at Parkhead on Wednesday, December 21.