{"id":524611,"date":"2026-04-11T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:01:09","slug":"oneill-issues-fresh-osmand-and-engels-celtic-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524611\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill issues fresh Osmand and Engels Celtic injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The striker, 20, returned to training this week after almost five months on the sidelines with a hamstring injury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Osmand is one of several Celtic players on the road to recovery, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/alistair-johnston\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alistair Johnston<\/a> stepping up his rehab recently.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I would hope so, yeah,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill said when asked if Osmand will feature before the end of the season. &#8220;He\u2019s doing really well. He\u2019ll do the same sort of work as [Alistair] Johnston next week, which is encouraging.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Sometimes I\u2019m loath to say someone is doing really well and then they get re-injured \u2013 like Julian [Araujo].\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He got re-injured at Bournemouth. He\u2019s their player, and they can rehab as they see fit, but it\u2019s a disappointment for us.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  O&#8217;Neill does not expect Araujo to play for Celtic again. But midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/arne-engels\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arne Engels<\/a> could feature against St Mirren this weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Belgian has been out since the middle of February after pulling up against Livingston.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;[Arne] Engels has trained,&#8221; said O&#8217;Neill. &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that he&#8217;ll come through that. He&#8217;s trained all this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He&#8217;s had no reaction at this minute, so I&#8217;m hoping he&#8217;ll come into the squad [vs St Mirren] \u2013 whether he&#8217;ll start or not I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The striker, 20, returned to training this week after almost five months on the sidelines with a hamstring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-524611","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\/524611","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=524611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}