His brightness, his cleverness, his technique his physicality in terms of his running and into the right areas. He’s back training, and he’ll be available for next weekend.
Wednesday’s match at Hibs looks like coming too early for the Scotland squad man but with Alexandro Bernabei struggling at left-back Rodgers could soon have a solution on the way.
The heavy toll of fixtures in the first half of the season is simply a fact of modern day football with few alternatives to the former Kilmarnock man thin on the ground.
That’s no slight on Taylor who keeps doing the job, but he needs to be properly backed-up at the very least and upgraded if possible, especially with the Champions League in mind.
The main activity was at the other end of the park with Celtic’s two first half goalscorers the main sources of creativity.