It looks as though the squad for tomorrow night's game against Kilmarnock at Celtic Park has been revealed. Celtic have posted photos of training, in which is a group photo of 17 players stretching, minus GKs.
Simunovic, Ajer, Hendry, Miller and Tierney are the defenders.
Forrest, Sinclair, McGregor, Armstrong, Brown, Rogic, Roberts, Kouassi, Ntcham and what looks to be Mikey Johnston and Ewan Henderson are the midfielders.
Dembele is the only striker.
Those of you good at maths will realise that from that group plus the keepers, we have 1 too many for our match squad. Ewan Henderson is the most likely to drop out but will be available should someone get injured in the warm up.
It's a difficult one to call for Kilmarnock, not playing so well right now but will be difficult opponents as always under Steve Clarke. As the game is at Celtic Park I would imagine they'll go with just one up front in Kris Boyd so we may look to go 3 at the back with no natural RB in the squad. Hendry has tried to play there and frankly failed. I've not even been convinced of him playing on the right of a back 3 so far, he doesn't quite look comfortable yet. I think more of his games need to be in the middle of a back 4.
Personally I'm hoping that Rodgers chooses this game to change the team up a bit. We've got our final home game against Aberdeen at the weekend so let the midweek game be a chance for some of the others.
Armstrong was pretty good against Hearts when he came on, he may well start against Killie but I wouldn't imagine he'll start against Aberdeen. Do we really want to risk Scott Brown in this midweek game? Should we not give him a rest ahead of Aberdeen and the Cup Final and let Kouassi get a game?