Cameron Carter-Vickers to sit out Perth trip, touch and toe for Dortmund

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·24 September 2024

Cameron Carter-Vickers to sit out Perth trip, touch and toe for Dortmund

Celtic’s Big Strong Man, Cameron Carter-Vickers will sit out the trip to Perth on Saturday evening for the Scottish Premiership match against manageress St Johnstone, who are looking at Scott Brown as a candidate to replace the recently sacked Craig Levein…

Cameron Carter-Vickers during the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Hearts on 14 September 2024 at Celtic Park. Photo Malcolm Mackenzie PSI

The Celtic defender is touch and go for the Champions League match on Tuesday evening away to Dortmund with Brendan Rodgers explaining the injury concern after Sunday’s entertaining Premier Sports cup quarter final win over Falkirk.

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“Cam has been suffering a wee bit with his metatarsal, below his big toe,” the Celtic manager told Premier Sports. “We gave it a little bit of a period earlier on, a few weeks back, and he was okay.

“He’s got a little bit sore, obviously playing back-to-back games, which is why we’ve given him today free. So, we’ll just assess that and see how that is later in the week.”

Alistair Johnston also sat out the 5-2 win over the high-flying Championship side with the Canadian international right back receiving an injection in his back at the end of last week. Like CCV he’s unlikely to start at McDiarmid Park with a view to being in the starting XI at the Signal Induna Park a week tonight.

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Alistair Johnston, Aberdeen v Celtic, Scottish Premiership, 3 February 2024 Photo Mark Runnacles/Shutterstock

So we are likely to see both Anthony Ralston and Auston Trusty retaining their place in the Celtic team on Saturday in the late kick-off in Perth. However both Liam Scales and Greg Taylor are likely to come back into the back four for the 5.45pm kick-off at McDiarmid Park.

The Celtic Star contributor Johnno made a decent point on here last night, pointing out that Dortmund are playing their Bundesliga match against VfL Bochum on Friday evening whereas Celtic are having to play on Saturday evening ahead of an away European match in the Champions League on Tuesday. That’s to suit Premier Sports who could easily have shown that game on Friday night.

Expect Brendan Rodgers to be planning to play the same team (shown below) that beat Slovan Bratislava 5-1 on match-day one on Tuesday night in Dortmund. All he has to do is negotiate the trip to Perth on Saturday evening before he can be sure of his team for the Champions League.