{"id":246771,"date":"2025-11-06T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246771\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:19:10","slug":"martin-oneill-hints-at-starting-xi-changes-for-midtjylland-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246771\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin O&#8217;Neill Hints At Starting XI Changes For Midtjylland Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin O\u2019Neill says his Celtic squad have come through the weekend\u2019s League Cup semi-final win over Rangers in relatively good shape, with only minor issues to report ahead of Thursday\u2019s Europa League meeting with Midtjylland.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"316\">However, there will be a few changes to the starting XI that the Hoops field tomorrow evening, freshening things up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"535\">Speaking at his pre-match press conference, the interim boss revealed that while a few players picked up knocks and cramp after an intense 120-minute contest at Hampden, there are no major fresh injury concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"804\">\u201cYeah, I think that we\u2019ve come out of it reasonably okay. A few knocks and a few bruises. A few people who haven\u2019t played a great deal, obviously, went down with cramp and things like that, which is not really surprising given the pace of the game,\u201d O\u2019Neill said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l2KOADgcEhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Celtic TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1117\">\u201cSo, yeah, we\u2019re not too bad. We\u2019ll maybe think about making a couple of changes to the side, but we\u2019ll see how it goes. We genuinely have not made our minds up yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1117\">No final decisions have been made yet, but it will be interesting to see what changes, if any, are made. James Forrest could maybe come in from the start, as he did against Falkirk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1117\">That could shift <a data-autolink-id=\"19\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/celtsarehere.com\/daizen-maeda-glasgow-celtic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maeda<\/a> to the left, which would see Tounekti drop out. You can\u2019t imagine Johnny Kenny, with three goals in two games, missing this one.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1117\">Alistair Johnston and Kels Iheanacho haven\u2019t made the trip; both are not fully fit yet.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1295\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Celtic head into the match full of confidence after back-to-back wins under O\u2019Neill, including a memorable derby triumph that booked their place in December\u2019s League Cup final.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1295\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Team news will come out around 16.30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin O\u2019Neill says his Celtic squad have come through the weekend\u2019s League Cup semi-final win over Rangers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-246771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}