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we have seen week after week and I strongly suspect that while there might be one or two kids brought in to experience first-team football, that the nucleus will remain strong.
I do wonder if we will see a little bit of the 19-year-old Ivorian Kouassi Eboue, whom the club signed in the January transfer window. The teenager had malaria when he first arrived, which would have hindered his involvement a little, but we were given a glimpse of him when he came off the bench a few weeks back.
With thoughts inevitably drifting now to the qualifying stages of the UEFA Champions League this summer, if he is a player that is expected to play a part in that then I am sure we will get a chance to see how he shows up with some first-team exposure over the coming weeks. LEIGH GRIFFITHS’ body language since he has come back into the team following his public dressing-down from Brendan Rodgers certainly doesn’t point to him being in the huff.
The striker does not have the look of someone sulking.
He has looked bright, sharp and I am sure that he will be keen now in the remaining 10 league games to underline what contribution he is capable of making.
I have no doubt he was stung by the criticism but he appears to have taken the message to heart.
And so he should because the simple fact is his Celtic career could be on the line.
I did wonder whether there was any chance that Brendan Rodgers might have started the game with both Griffiths and Moussa Dembele up front, and in actual fact the way that Rangers set out might have been suited to that.
Certainly, though, it has been a disappointing season on a personal level for Griffiths.
I don’t think it is too late for him at Celtic and whatever has been said between him and the manager, it wouldn’t appear that there is any lingering irritation on either of their parts.
It is up to the striker himself now to show what he has got and prove that he is capable of taking on board what has been asked of him.