MARTIN O’NEILL has rested Kieran Tierney from his starting line-up against Hibs at Easter Road in today’s High Noon showdown.
The Irishman is preparing to bring down the curtain on his seven-game interim manager period at the champions and is hoping to bow out with three points.
Tierney is among the stand-by squad with on-loan Marcelo Saracchi taking his left-back berth while Colby Donovan continues on the right flank.
TEAM: Schmeichel; Donovan, Trusty, Scales, Saracchi; Engels, McGregor, Hatate; McCowan, Maeda, Yang. Subs: Sinisalo, Nygren, Balikwisha, Tounekti, Kenny, Bernardo, Murray, Ralston and Tierney.
Earlier today, we asked how much you could remember about past connections with the Leith club in CQN‘s fun five-minute quiz to test your knowledge.
Now we repeat those questions and provide the answers.
CAPITAL SHOW…Daizen Maeda, who netted the first goal, celebrates the strike that would have made it 2-2 in the league at Easter Road in February, but was controversially ruled out by VAR. Filipe Jota is eager to get the game restarted. (See Question 3.)
QUESTIONS:
1: True or false: Martin O’Neill sealed the treble in his debut campaign as Celtic manager in season 2000/01 with a Scottish Cup Final win over Hibs?
2: Martin O’Neill signed a Hibs player within a month of his arrival at Celtic from Leicester City at the turn of the century. Can you name the recruit?
3: Celtic lost 2-1 to Hibs at Easter Road in highly controversial circumstances in February. Who scored Celtic’s goal?
4: Daizen Maeda netted one of the goals in Celtic’s 2-0 Scottish Cup win over the Edinburgh club in March. Who scored the other strike?
5: Celtic also knocked Hibs out of the Premier Sports League Cup with a 3-1 win at Parkhead in August. Daizen Maeda claimed a double that afternoon, but can you remember who claimed the other goal?
ANSWERS:
1: True. Celtic beat Hibs 3-0 in the Scottish Cup Final to complete the treble with a double from Henrik Larsson after Jackie McNamara had opened the scoring.
2: Didier Agathe.
3: Daizen Maeda.
4: Adam Idah.
5: Nicolas Kuhn.
Well done if you got five out of five. Go to the top of the class!
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