Celtic won’t have any returning faces in the mix who were ruled out of Livingston with injury, but there are also no new injury concerns ahead of Dundee United.
That’s the word from manager Ange Postecoglou, who is looking forward to fielding what will be a full-strength line-up minus the services of Kyogo Furuhashi and David Turnbull.
Tonight’s a big one and the Bhoys will be going full throttle to join Hearts, Hibs and Rangers in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.
Postecoglou is expecting an open, exciting game, telling The Scottish Sun: “At this time of the year you see how much a point means to teams. And that can be fairly constricting. But in the cup competitions, you say, ‘Well, let’s just go for it’. There is an opportunity for teams to advance.
“It doesn’t mean that teams are all of a sudden just going to open up. But I just think that whenever the game is 0-0, teams will have a little bit more of a go.
“We are in a good place in terms of the health of the squad and training is competitive. From the physical perspective, the players are in a good space.
“Our performances have been stable. They haven’t all been exhilarating, but we haven’t had too much fluctuation. All those kind of indicators show me that we are in a good space to finish the season strong.”
We’ve already given our predicted eleven for tonight’s encounter, favouring a Daizen Maeda led-attack supporter by Jota and Liel Abada.
Realistically though there are a number of different teams the manager could go with tonight that wouldn’t get much grumbling from the support.
With Giorgos Giakoumakis, Matt O’Riley, James Forrest and Anthony Ralston all ready to come in if need be, there’s plenty of depth across the pitch right now.
All guns blazing tonight Celtic!
In other news, B team set for big Celtic Park derby, North Curve open.
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