{"id":269469,"date":"2025-11-18T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:11:08","slug":"scotland-u21-boss-shares-results-of-celtic-defender-colby-donovans-x-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269469\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland U21 boss shares results of Celtic defender Colby Donovan&#8217;s X-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Celtic\u2019s injury problems appear to be turning into a crisis this season, especially after Colby Donovan\u2019s Scotland setback.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/scott-gemmill-delivers-colby-donovan-scotland-u21-injury-update-and-how-young-celtic-star-is-coping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic defender was stretchered off<\/a> in Scotland U21\u2019s win over Gibraltar midweek and looked like he could be out for a lengthy spell.<\/p>\n<p>National boss Scott Gemmill said young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/colby-donovan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan<\/a> was in \u2018good spirits\u2019 after being rushed to hospital directly from the Europa Point Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Gemmill has shared the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic<\/a> full-back\u2019s x-ray and confirms that Donovan is now back at Lennoxtown.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/celtic-fans-send-the-parkhead-board-a-furious-message-after-latest-managerial-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic fans send the Parkhead board a furious message after latest managerial update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2184730727-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Scotland v Liechtenstein - U19 UEFA EURO Qualifier\" class=\"wp-image-332464\" \/>Photo by Ryan Crockett\/DeFodi Images via Getty ImagesColby Donovan is \u2018back at Celtic\u2019 with \u2018clear\u2019 x-ray scan<\/p>\n<p>Celtic already have Alistair Johnston out and Anthony Ralston only recently recovered from injury, so options are thin on the right full-back position.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gemmill appears to have good news for Celtic and the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Gemmill told <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ypH8k1IGtm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Herald<\/a>, \u201cHe\u2019s gone back to his club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe arrived at 5 o\u2019clock on Sunday, but he has gone back to Celtic. He\u2019s too sore to play, but the X-ray was clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of care he got in Gibraltar was fantastic, as he went straight to the hospital, straight in for an X-ray, and actually back in the hotel in time to eat his dinner! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think with those injuries, you just can\u2019t take any risk. It was clear that he couldn\u2019t continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, his ankle can settle down quickly \u2013 there\u2019s a chance that Celtic may choose to do their own scan, but that\u2019s obviously a decision they\u2019ll make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celtic\u2019s next fixture and Donovan\u2019s availability<\/p>\n<p>Celtic will face St Mirren on Saturday night and it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/celtic-fans-send-the-parkhead-board-a-furious-message-after-latest-managerial-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin O\u2019Neill will remain in charge of the Bhoys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that game just under five days away, the chances of Donovan being available for the Saturday night Celtic Park clash don\u2019t look good.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the Scotland scan was clear, Gemmill\u2019s assertion that Celtic could send Donovan for another seems to suggest that the young full-back could be set for a short spell on the sidelines over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic\u2019s injury problems appear to be turning into a crisis this season, especially after Colby Donovan\u2019s Scotland setback.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[72237,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-269469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-colby-donovan","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269469","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=269469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}