BRENDAN RODGERS has given the nod for Auston Trusty and Kyogo Furuhashi to start in the Premier Sports League Cup semi-final against Aberdeen at Hampden this evening.
The Celtic boss keeps faith in USA international who will team up alongside Cameron Carter-Vickers with Liam Scales on the bench.
Kyogo, who scored the last time the teams met a fortnight ago, is preferred to Adam Idah at the kick-off.
As expected, skipper Callum McGregor is back after missing two games through injury.
TEAM: Schmeichel; Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Valle; Engels, McGregor, Hatate; Kuhn, Kyogo, Maeda. Subs: Sinisalo, Ralston, Scales, Taylor, Bernardo, Forrest, Idah, Yang, Palma.
Earlier today, we asked how much you could remember about recent Hampden games against the Dons in CQN‘s fun five-minute quiz to test your knowledge.
Now we repeat the questions and provide the answers.
DONS DESTROYER…Tom Rogic fires in a left-foot drive to open the scoring in Celtic’s 3-0 League Cup Final win over Aberdeen in November 2016 and (below) the Aussie playmaker tucks away a right-foot effort to clinch the 2017 Scottish Cup Final. (See Question 1.)
QUESTIONS:
1: Celtic beat Aberdeen in both the League Cup and Scottish Cup Finals in Brendan Rodgers’ debut season in 2016/17. Which Hoops star scored in both games?
2: Celtic beat the Dons and Motherwell in successive seasons in League Cup Finals. Which Celt netted on both occasions?
3: Which former Dons loan star scored Celtic’s winner in the 2018 League Cup Final?
4: True or false: Craig Gordon kept goal for Celtic in their three successive Hampden Final wins over the Dons – League Cup (2016, 2018) and Scottish Cup (2017)?
5: James Forrest came on as a substitute and netted in the 3-3 draw with the Dons in last season’s Scottish Cup semi-final. Who were the Hoops’ other two scorers before Rodgers’ men won the penalty-kick shoot-out?
ANSWERS:
1: Tom Rogic.
2: James Forrest.
3: Ryan Christie.
4: False. Craig Gordon was replaced by Scott Bain in the 1-0 League Cup Final win against Aberdeen in 2018.
5: Nicolas Kuhn and Matt O’Riley.
Well done if you got five out of five. Go to the top of the class!
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