{"id":595273,"date":"2025-11-26T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:38:13","slug":"celtic-handed-second-injury-boost-ahead-of-feyenoord-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595273\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic handed second injury boost ahead of Feyenoord clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Both Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi have returned to training. Saracchi, 27, suffered a hamstring injury during the first half of the match against Kilmarnock before the international break.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, he has bounced back swiftly and was seen participating in full training at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/parkhead\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkhead<\/a> before the club&#8217;s journey to the Netherlands. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScotlandSky\/status\/1993671308010225733?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sky Sports<\/a> captured the Uruguayan in action.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\n    \ud83c\udf40 Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi are back training with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> ahead of Thursday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#UEL<\/a> game away to Feyenoord \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6myeauiC82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6myeauiC82<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotlandSky\/status\/1993671308010225733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 26, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  Saracchi joined Celtic from the Argentinian club Boca Juniors in the latter stages of the summer transfer window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He made his debut against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/rangers?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> at Ibrox in August and has since accumulated nine appearances in all competitions for the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former River Plate, RB Leipzig, Galatasaray, and Levante player competes with Kieran Tierney for the left-back position at the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saracchi&#8217;s return is a further boost for Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s side, following Kelechi Iheanacho&#8217;s reintegration into the squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Iheanacho has been reintegrated ahead of the Feyenoord clash.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Elsewhere, Wilfied Nancy is &#8216;on the verge&#8217; of becoming Celtic&#8217;s new manager, according to a new report.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 48-year-old Columbus Crew head coach has been heavily linked with the vacant position for a number of weeks, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/news\/24286718.brendan-rodgers-news-interviews-updates-manager\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brendan Rodgers<\/strong><\/a> &#8216; shock resignation over a month ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, it would seem that the Frenchman&#8217;s move to Scotland is getting closer, thanks to Fabrizio Romano&#8217;s latest update.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The journalist, who has 26 million followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1993647585903694247?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a> , took to social media to provide an update. In full, Romano posted, &#8220;Wilfried Nancy, on the verge of becoming new Celtic manager as deal is almost agreed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Final details to be sorted, and then the contract will be sealed.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nancy has been in charge of Columbus Crew since 2022, following his spell at CF Montreal. To date, he has won two major honours at the Ohio-based MLS club, including the MLS Cup and the Leagues Cup in 2023 and 2024, respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi have returned to training. Saracchi, 27, suffered a hamstring injury during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-595273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115616750175194847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}