{"id":3155,"date":"2022-03-30T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/international-duty-update-theres-good-news-and-bad-news-for-celtic-the-celtic-star\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:26:33","slug":"international-duty-update-theres-good-news-and-bad-news-for-celtic-the-celtic-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/international-duty-update-theres-good-news-and-bad-news-for-celtic-the-celtic-star\/","title":{"rendered":"International Duty Update: There\u2019s good news and bad news for Celtic &#8211; The Celtic Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It\u2019s been a case of good news and bad so far for Celtic\u2019s international contingent today.<\/strong><\/span> Let\u2019s start with the good news shall we?<br \/>The good news was Reo Hatate\u2019s first cap for Japan saw the Celtic midfielder play 45 minutes for Hajime Moriyasu\u2019s side in their final dead rubber qualifier against Vietnam before what appears to have been a tactical substitution for Junya Ito, saw Hatate replaced at half-time, rather than any concern over an injury.<br \/>IMAGO \/ ZUMA Wire \u2013 March 29, 2022, Saitama, Japan: REO HATATE (15) of Japan in action during\u00c3\u201a the FIFA World Cup, Asian Qualifiers (Road to Qatar) Japan vs Vietnam at Saitama Stadium 2002 in Japan. Final score Vietnam 1-1 Japan. Saitama Japan. Photo Rodrigo Reyes Marin<br \/>Japan\u2019s Reo Hatate (L) fights for the ball with Ho Tan Tai(R) during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Asian zone qualification football match between Japan and Vietnam at Saitama Stadium in Saitama on March 29, 2022. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>And whilst Reo Hatate will be hoping he\u2019s done enough to impress his manager ahead of the upcoming World Cup in Qatar \u2013 for which Japan qualified with a win against Australia last week \u2013 and will now head back to Scotland to focus on Ange Postecoglou\u2019s preparations for Sunday\u2019s Glasgow Derby, for Stephen Welsh however, the bad news is the Scotland Under-21 skipper had to leave the field of play early in the first half with what appears to be a groin injury, picked up during Scotland Under 21\u2019s 2-2 draw with Kazakhstan, a game in which Scott Gemmill\u2019s side had held a 2-0 lead before being pegged back in a game played in dreadful conditions.<br \/>As such it now very much looks like Welsh will be a doubt for this weekend\u2019s visit to Ibrox.<br \/>(Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images)<br \/>It was possibly unlikely Welsh would have started against<em> theRangers<\/em> on Sunday, however, Postecoglou would have viewed him as very much an important part of the match-day squad. 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Let\u2019s start with the good news shall we?The good news was Reo Hatate\u2019s first cap for Japan saw the Celtic midfielder play 45 minutes for Hajime Moriyasu\u2019s side in their final dead rubber qualifier against Vietnam before what appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}