CELTIC welcome back Cameron Carter-Vickers for a first-team start against Dundee at Parkhead this evening.
The influential centre-half made a second-half return from injury in the 3-1 win over Motherwell at Fir Park on Sunday and is for the kick-off against the Tayside club.
It’s the USA World Cup defender’s first start since the 1-0 victory over Ross County last month.
Two-goal Adam Idah also gets the nod with Kyogo Furuhashi among the stand-by squad while Yang Hyun-jun takes over from Nicolas Kuhn on the right side of the attack.
TEAM: Hart; Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor; Iwata, McGregor, O’Riley; Yang, Idah, Maeda. Subs: Bain, Palma, Kyogo, Kuhn, Bernardo, Vata, Kelly, Ralston and Welsh.
Earlier today, we asked you how much you could remember about recent games against the DEns Park outfit in CQN’s fun five-minute quiz to test your knowledge.
Now we repeat the questions and provide the answers.
IN THE THICK OF IT…Mikey Johnston stabs in his second and Celtic’s third goal in the 3-0 win over Dundee at Dens Park on Boxing Day. (See Question 5.)
QUESTIONS:
1: Can you name the player who got the opening goal for Celtic in the 3-0 home win in September? Clue: He is no longer at the club.
2: True or false: Kyogo Furuhashi claimed a hat-trick the first time he played against Dundee?
3: Who hit a treble in the 3-2 victory for Ange Postecoglou’s side against the Dens Parkers at Parkhead in February 2022?
4: Which former Celtic player was manager of Dundee that afternoon?
5: Which Hoops star claimed a double on Boxing Day on Tayside?
ANSWERS:
1: David Turnbull, now with Cardiff City.
2: True. Kyogo fired in a hat-trick in his Parkhead debut as Celtic overwhelmed their opponents 6-0 on August 8 2021.
3: Giorgos Giakoumakis.
4: Mark McGhee.
5: Mikey Johnston.
Well done if you got five out of five. Go to the top of the class!
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