Opinion: Celtic star must be cursing his luck after latest setback

It seems that Celtic have been dealt an injury blow just a few days before the Hoops take on Aberdeen in the team’s first game of the 2022/23 Premiership season.

The Scottish Sun is reporting that midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi is set to miss the Aberdeen game after picking up an injury in training. The article doesn’t state how long the player will be out of action for, presumably Ange Postecoglou will have an update when he has his pre-match press conference before the Aberdeen game later this week.

The latest injury setback is a real blow for the 25-year-old, and he must be cursing his luck that his Celtic career has yet to get going, as he has now suffered two injury setbacks.

The first setback was in January, when he suffered a knee injury in his first start for the Hoops against Alloa in the Scottish Cup. Even though he returned to action before the end of the season, the fans have yet to see the best of the player, and that wait will go on as he is now on the side-lines once more.

What is frustrating for the player and the fans is that you have to imagine that Ideguchi has a lot to offer the club, after all, Ange Postecoglou knows him from his time managing in Japan, and he signed the player in January alongside Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda.

Whilst Hatate and Maeda have both made a big impact at Celtic Park, the same can’t be said for Ideguchi as yet, as injuries have prevented him from getting a real run in the starting line-up.

Hopefully this latest injury is not a serious one, and the player will return to the Hoops squad sooner rather than later. It is hard to tell just how good a player he is, as has already been stated, injuries have prevented him from getting a run of games in the Celtic side, which must be