Ange Postecoglou has named his Celtic starting XI that will take on Motherwell tonight.
It's the latest step in the Premier Sports Cup for the Hoops after they won this tournament last December. It's the quarter-final stage and a win in Lanarkshire would seal progression back to Hampden Park for January's last four slots.
Rotation has occurred and fringe players Benjamin Siegrist and Aaron Mooy get their chance ahead of regulars like Joe Hart and Daizen Maeda, while Kyogo returns in attack. Postecoglou said of the game: "It doesn’t matter if we won it last year. We know playing for this club means you challenge for every competition.
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“It helped us in terms of our progress as a team because the start of the year was very challenging and doing well in the cup and winning it accelerated some of our progress and belief in what we were doing."
Celtic XI: Siegrist, Juranovic, Carter-Vickers, Jenz, Taylor, O'Riley, Hatate, Mooy, Haksabanovic, Kyogo, Abada.
Subs: Hart, Giakoumakis, McCarthy, Ideguchi, Bernabeim Abilgaard, Maeda, Forrest, Ralston.
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