{"id":397699,"date":"2026-01-29T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397699\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:31:09","slug":"teams-up-iheanacho-returns-for-celtic-must-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397699\/","title":{"rendered":"Team\u2019s Up \u2013 Iheanacho returns for Celtic must win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic manager Martin O\u2019Neill has named his team for this evening\u2019s crucial Europa League clash with FC Utrecht. The Dutch side arrive having already been eliminated from the competition. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill has pulled no surprises with his starting XI. However, Celtic are bolstered by the return of Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho, who starts from the bench. <\/p>\n<p>Kasper Schmeichel starts in nets.<\/p>\n<p>A back four of Colby Donovan, Auston Trusty, Liam Scales and Kieran Tierney starts. <\/p>\n<p>In midfield, Arne Engels partners Callum McGregor. Beni Nygren starts in the advanced role as he looks to provide fire power up front. <\/p>\n<p>In attack, Daizen Maeda starts through the middle with Seb Tounekti and Yang in the wide areas. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1111.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-180678 has-webp size-full  aligncenter\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1536\/2048;max-width:1536px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Subs: Sinisalo, Doohan, Ralston, Balikwisha, McCowan, Iheanacho, Bernardo, Murray, Forrest, McArdle, Hale, Isiguzo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic manager Martin O\u2019Neill has named his team for this evening\u2019s crucial Europa League clash with FC Utrecht.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-397699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397699","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=397699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}