A very quick VAR review was carried out with Sky Sports listening in. One replay of the incident was shown with the message going out from Dallas that the ball struck him in the t-shirt area of the body.
There seemed to be a real lethargy about some of the early play, McGregor was losing his midfield battles while Taylor looked as if he had overdone it in the warm up.
Celtic have won by a single goal in their last three trips to Pittodrie, in December the returning Callum McGregor was the matchwinner with an 87th minute goal that started the demise of Jim Goodwin after a highly cautious display infuriated Dons supporters.
Fraser would give Celtic what appears to be a very decent option on the left wing but his career has stalled at best since Lockdown.
Rodgers has to make Celtic’s interests his priority but is mindful of the player needing to be involved every week as he was last season.
Despite that, Gustaf Lagerbielke is in the squad against Hammarby and intends to play from the start.
That hasn’t really taken him any closer to the Celtic first team with Maik Nawrocki signed last month and Gustaf Lagerbielke expected to join the hoops next week.
The excitement they had for the new season has disappeared and the grumblings are audible. That heaps pressure on Beale, even if a new Sky Sports colleague of mine can’t see it.
Beale enjoys very special status in the media with almost every outlet hanging on his every word, how he knows everyone in English football and best of all he was the brains behind Steven Gerrard’s reign of one trophy win out of nine which includes cup defeats to Hearts, St…
In almost every sense there seems little logic in Tierney returning to Celtic but football has a habit of ignoring known logic.