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Josh McCafferty

Major injury update on Celtic quartet who missed Rangers clash

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has provided an update on the condition of quartet Nicolas Kuhn, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Alistair Johnston, and Kasper Schmeichel. 

All four players missed their side's 1-1 draw with Rangers at Ibrox last weekend. 

Celtic welcome Hibernian to Parkhead on Saturday for their penultimate home game of the season, and Rodgers has given the latest on their fitness. 


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In short, Johnston and Carter-Vickers won't play this weekend, but Kuhn and Schmeichel could: "Ali [Johnston] is still out, but we’ll have a look for him in midweek against Aberdeen," said the Celtic manager. 

"Cam [Carter-Vickers] is still out, we’re looking for him for the St Mirren game. We are sticking to the original plan with these two players."

Kuhn was pictured in Celtic training with stitches near his eye. Rodgers revealed the German was caught up in a nasty training ground incident: "Nicolas did it the other day," he said. 

"He jumped for a header, and he got five stitches, and it was just down below his eye. He's fit to play. He's trained well this week, so he'll have the warrior spirit for him tomorrow."

Although Viljami Sinisalo has deputised amply for Celtic in recent weeks, number one goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel is back and available for selection tomorrow against Hibs. 

"I think we just have to be careful with Kasper, and we'll wait to see until later on how his shoulder has reacted, and then we can make a decision then who will play tomorrow," said Rodgers. 

"It's just the nature of it, but no doubt we brought Vil in here to eventually be the number one goalkeeper, and everything to that plan is on point at this moment in time.

"He's been very, very good. I've been really, really impressed with him in the games and it's great to have that."

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