SPFL Celtic V Ross County Saturday November 30th kick off 3PM Celtic TV

Schmeichel
Ralston Scales Trusty Valle
McGregor
McCowan Bernardo
Kuhn Idah Maeda​

Bit of rotation needed for this, tempted to start Yang instead of Kuhn but that might be too much.

Would be good to get our performance levels back up for this, 3-0 us.

 

McCowan and Bernardo for Hatate and Engels.

Not sure I would change anything else. Depends how knackered players feel but get into a good position and we can get the subs on early.

Edit - Forgot about Valle for Taylor.

 

Kasper

Aj
Ccv
Trusty
Valle

McGregor
McCowan
Bernado

Yang
Kyogo
Maeda

 

Bernardo, McCowan and Valle are a cert to start this..

Hopefully Cummings gets a chance on the bench..

 

Its the kind of "easy" home game that Engels might need to get his confidence up tbf and find his feet again. Hatate on the bench and Bernardo has to start playing football matches for us .

 

Hes gonna be the case of khun. Winter break and he'll be brilliant.

 

Schmeichel
Johnston CCV Trusty Valle
McGregor
Kuhn Bernardo Hatate Maeda
Idah​

 

No winter break this year

 

Schmeichael
Ralston Trusty Scales Valle
McGregor Bernardo
McCowan
Yang Idah Forrest​

 

For me Ralston, Scales, Valle, McCowan, Bernardo, Idah, Forrest and Yang would all start to give the others a rest.

If we can’t start guys at home to Ross County when can you?

We have 3 big games coming up, Aberdeen (A) in the league, Dinamo Zagreb (A) CL, and Rangers Cup Final (N). For me we need to rotate the team to peak in those 3 games.

The other league games against Ross County and Hibs both at home we should have enough in the squad to pick up the points.

 

Aye, the whole main team needs a rest.

 

We've been brutal this season when we've made that many changes though.

 

Yeah too many changes and it becomes a mess.. midfield deffo needs a rest especially Reo and Engels.. no need to risk CCV and Kuhn either...

Play Taylor with a view to have Valle for CL.

If we can't rest players against Ross County at home when do we? It might not be pretty but 3 points even with a weakened team should be a cert.

 

Kasper

AJ
CCV
Scales
Valle

McGregor
Bernardo
McCowan

Kuhn
Kyogo
Maeda

Dont like to change too much as never works out and we end up having to change it.

Bernardo and Valle deserve a start. Maybe give Trusty a breather too as we have the squad to rotate a bit now.

 

I agree but the last few games after European games we have been brutal without changes, Killie away, Ross County away, Motherwell away we made a decent number of changes and despite a slow start won 3-0 and were pretty comfortable.

This game, on paper granted is easier than any of those other 3 fixtures.

There is also a rational behind it for each of the changes.

- Ralston for Johnston - he has visibly struggled both the Hearts and Brugge games and probably needs a rest to get himself back firing for the games to come

- CCV for Scales - CCV struggles to play 3 games a week and I would rather have him in at Pittodrie.

- Valle for Taylor - Valle should be our starting left back anyway and needs game time.

- Bernardo for Engels - similar to Taylor situation above.

- McCowan for Hatate - similar to Johnston situation above.

- Forrest for Maeda - similar to Hatate and Johnston

- Idah for Kyogo - just freshens things up plus Idah has looked better the last couple of games.

- Yang for Kuhn - I am paranoid Kuhn is going to pull up and we will be knackered as no other winger is getting close to his levels. I would hate to go into any of the Aberdeen, Zagreb or Rangers games without him.

In an ideal world I wouldn’t make 8 changes for one game but I think it will be necessary to be close to that. I expect a similar team to the above to play Hibs at home too, maybe not quite so many changes right enough.

 

Schmeichel
Johnston CCV Trusty Valle
Bernardo Cal Mccowan
Kuhn Kyogo Maeda

Would also be content with Ralston or Scales getting a start, or even Palma or Yang. Absolutely need to change the middle though, it was poor in there last night.

 

Schmeichel
Ralston Trusty Scales Valle
Engels
Bernardo McCowan
Kuhn Idah Palma
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I'd go for that, theres a lot of games coming up so we should rest some guys while we can.

I'd got for Ralston and Palma if im playing Idah as they can put decent crosses in and Idah is not bad in the air. If Palma doesn't kick a ball then Forrest on at HT.

Maybe if Yang is looking good in training him instead of Palma but I can't trust Yang as you have near enough no hope of him scoring or creating anything where as Palma he does have end product even if he's pish he might score a double.

 

KS, AJ, CCV, Trusty, Valle, Bernardo, CalMac, McGowan, Kuhn, Kyogo, Maeda. Idah always plays best when coming on as a sub so I'd keep him for that. Engels should be benched until his form and attitude improve. McGowan deserves a chance, especially after Hatate's poor show last night.

 

Schmeichel
Ralston Trusty Scales Valle
Engels
Bernardo McCowan
Forrest Idah Palma

Seriously busy schedule, changes/rests needed. We’ve built up a bit of a cushion now we can afford to do it. Without sounding arrogant that team should still take care of RC comfortably at home.