Mikael Lustig is an injury concern for Celtic ahead of the Old Firm.
Mikael Lustig has admitted to The Record that he doesn’t know whether he’ll be fit for Celtic’s Old Firm meeting next Sunday.
Lustig is a big doubt for Sweden’s game with Norway on Tuesday after picking up a knock in a Euro 2020 qualifying win over Romania on Saturday.
The 32-year-old seems pessimistic over his chances of facing his country’s Scandinavian rivals tomorrow.
If he’s out, Lustig will only have five days to recover for the visit of Rangers this weekend.
Asked about facing the Gers, he told The Record: “It’s a big game that I want to play in, but we will see.
“First of all, I have to get fit for Norway. That seems far away right now, but you never know.”
It might not matter a great deal if he isn’t fit, because Neil Lennon has been playing Jeremy Toljan at right-back as of late.
Toljan, on a half-season loan from Borussia Dortmund, has started the Hoops’ last two Premiership games and it seems plausible that Lennon will continue with him.
That being said, it’ll be his first Old Firm and the German hasn’t exactly been the epitome of composure and confidence since joining the Parkhead side, so Lennon might have preferred the experience and nous of Lustig, who earns £24,000 per week in Glasgow [The Daily Star].
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