DAIZEN MAEDA has dropped out of the starting line-up for tonight’s Europea League encounter against FC Midtyjlland in Denmark.
The Japanese ace, who started the Premir Sports League Cup win over Rangers on Sunday, drops to the stand-by squad alongside his countryman Reo Hatate.
James Forrest has been given the nod to take Maeda’s wide right role with Johnny Kenny leading the attack and Sebastian Tounekti on the left.
Kieran Tierney, a 78th-minute sub for Marcelo Saracchi at Hampden, is in for the kick-off.
TEAM: Schmeichel; Ralston, Trusty, Scales, Tierney; Nygren, McGregor, Engels; Forrest, Kenny, Tounekti. Subs: Sinisalo, Doohan, Balikwisha, McCowan, Yang, Osmand, Bernardo, Saracchi, Maeda, Hatate, Murray and Donovan.
It will be the Hoops’ fourth game in the competition after a 1-1 draw with Red Star in Belgrade, a 2-0 loss to Sporting Braga and a 2-1 win over Sturm Graz, both at Parkhead.
Earlier today, we asked how much you could remember about past associations with Danish players and teams in CQN‘s fun five-minute quiz.
Now we repeat those questions and provide the answers.
ON TARGET…Liel Abada scored a debut goal in Celtic’s 1-1 draw with FC Midtjylland at Parkhead in July 2021. (See Question 4.)
QUESTIONS:
1: True or false: Jock Stein signed a Danish keeper after being impressed with him in two games against Celtic?
2: Celtic signed Morten Wieghorst in 1995 from which Scottish club: A: Aberdeen; B: Hibs or C: Dundee?
3: Which Celtic player never made another first-team appearance at Parkhead after Ange Postecoglou’s competitive debut against FC Midtjylland in July 2021?
4: Celtic drew 1-1 in that game. Who scored the Hoops’ goal?
5: Callum McGregor netted the opening goal in the return leg before the visitors lost 2-1 in extra-time. Who was in goal for Celtic that night?
ANSWERS:
1: True. Jock Stein signed Bent Martin from Aarhus after a 3-0 aggregate win over the Danes in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup in November 1965. Just over a year later, the keeper joined Dunfermline.
2: C: Dundee.
3: Vasilios Barkas. The £4.5million recruit from AEK Athens in the summer of 2020 was blamed for FC Midtjylland’s goal in the 1-1 Champions League draw. His only other appearance in Ange Postecoglou’s debut campaign was the 3-1 win over St Johnstone in Perth on Boxing Day.
4: Liel Abada.
5: Scott Bain.
Well done if you got five out of five. Go to the top of the class!
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