Kasper Schmeichel, 39, has been under intense scrutiny after a series of errors, culminating in last week’s slack performance in the home defeat by Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old from Finland stepped in and made six saves, in a display former Celtic midfielder Stiliyan Petrov described as “perfect”.<\/p>\n
Pat Bonner, the former Celtic goalkeeper, believes Sinisalo did enough to start against Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“He had some very good saves and looked composed when he had the ball and read the game well,” he said on BBC Scotland’s Sportsound.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big decision for Martin O’Neill to make at the weekend. On that performance, I would be starting him. Give him a run in the team now.”<\/p>\n
The Celtic manager agreed several players have given him “food for thought”.<\/p>\n
“[Sinisalo] played brilliantly in the game, really well. That’s the name all round the dressing room,” the 73-year-old said. “He’s got plenty of talent.<\/p>\n
“Tonight, we made some changes. Some enforced, players stepped up to the plate but we didn’t throw in 16-year-olds… these boys have played in the team and have shown they’re capable of winning games.<\/p>\n
“It wouldn’t be a headache… A selection choice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kasper Schmeichel, 39, has been under intense scrutiny after a series of errors, culminating in last week’s slack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447641","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\/447641","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=447641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}