Team’s Up – Yang returns, Baur starts, Hassen on bench | OneFootball

Martin O’Neill has named his starting XI to take on Austrian Champions LASK in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League playoff at Celtic Park this evening…

Champions League, play-off, Celtic Glasgow vs Linzer ASK, preview, training LASK. Image shows a match ball. Photo GEPA pictures/ Manuel Binder IMAGO

Both sides are well aware that there’s a massive £40m jackpot at stake and the veteran Celtic manager will have his Celtic team hyped up and ready to go all out to claim that prize.

Viljami Sinisalo has the gloves for Celtic as usual and he will play behind a back four of Colby Donovan standing in for AJ at right back, a central defence pairing of Cameron Carter-Vickers and Auston Trusty and Kieran Tierney back at left back after being rested for Celtic’s 4-0 win at Tannadice at the weekend.

Benjamin Nygren celebrates his goal. Dundee Utd v Celtic, Premier Sports Cup, Saturday 15 August. Tannadice. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou

Celtic will have both Callum McGregor and new signing Mika Baur sitting with ahead a progressive three of Camilo Duran, Benjamin Nygren and Yang with Kasper Hogh playing through the middle as the Celtic 9.

Predicted Celtic XI: Sinisalo: Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Tierney, ; McGregor, Baur, Nygren; Yang, Hogh, Duran.

Subs: Doohan; Scales, Balikwisha, Tounekti, Murray, Ralston, McCowan, Hatate, Hassan, Osmand, Kenny and Forrest.

Match Officials

Referee – Sandro Schärer SUI

Assistant referees  –Stéphane De Almeida SUI and Jonas Erni SUI

Fourth official – Anojen Kanagasingam SUI

Video Assistant Referee – Fedayi San SUI

Assistant Video Assistant Referee – Lukas Fähndrich SUI

Kick-off is at 8pm and Paradise will be rocking from kick-off. This is our prize for passing and breaking Hearts on the last day of last season to win the league on a never to be forgotten afternoon.  We must take good care of it and that means winning this tie which will be decided in Linz on Tuesday night.

Celtic Park ahead of the Celtic v AC Milan in a pre-season friendly at Celtic Park on July 25, 2026. (Photo by WM Sport Media/Getty Images)

Martin O’Neill will want to take a decent lead there and the Celtic Park crowd can and will do all that they can to assist. So let’s make some noise for the Bhoys.

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