Callum McGregor. Matt O’Riley . Reo Hatate . It’s going to take more than three players for Celtic to get the job done against Rangers. But, if the trio fire, the title will belong to Brendan Rodgers .
Fair enough, Paolo Bernardo had a big influence on the New Year game with his performance and goal in the 2-1 win for Rodgers’ team. But it remains fairly impressive that Celtic have managed to win two of the Old Firm games this season and draw the other without having their first-pick midfield as a combined starting unit.
Rodgers will be licking his lips at the prospect of these three taking control of proceedings on Saturday. McGregor’s fitness is massive. I have to say that he was looking off his best upon return from the achilles injury last month. Much was made of the 60-yard trackback to win a tackle, but there were signs of the control back in his game. O’Riley looked magnificent. As I spoke about in my last column, his performances leading up to the New Year were Player of the Year material.
Hatate needs to be on it for 90 minutes, but, if so, he’ll take some containing and you only had to look at the match against Hearts six days ago to see the effect these midfield boys can have on Kyogo Furuhashi.
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