Schmeichel remains Celtic’s No.1, Sinisalo’s day will come

Kasper admittedly has produced a few clangers in recent months, most notably his blunder in the Scottish Cup final, and his distribution has been called into question once or twice, but in my opinion he’s still very much the number one choice when it comes to pulling on the gloves.

His critics will tell you he’s ’overweight’ and whilst he’s naturally piled on a few pounds due to the ageing process, like every other professional footballer, he wouldn’t be near a football field if he was bursting the scales. Incidentally it’s most likely the same folk who accused Kelechi Iheanacho of being too ‘tubby’ after seeing some photoshopped mischief.

Kasper is an experienced player, one who is still deemed good enough to be first choice for the Denmark national side, and even at 38 is still a class act.

Viljami Sinisalo is a terrific back up, and has a great future ahead of him at Celtic, but will have to bide his time to take top billing, Maybe that will come next season, but the Finland international keeper clearly has time on his side.

Yes, Kasper has his faults, but what keeper doesn’t? He has after all only conceded two goals in competitive games this campaign thus far, which is in a big way down to the defenders in front of him, but Kasper has also played his part too.

Sure he had a couple of sloppy moments last night, but what about his terrific save which proved monumental in the end? Kasper is still a very solid and talented keeper, who is undoubtedly still the number one in Brendan’s eyes and that’s what matters most. However I’m sure that the majority of Celtic supporters would opt for Kasper to keep the gloves this season.

In the Europa League in particular his experience is going to be crucial as the team looks to go deep into this competition. Last night was a decent start with Kasper’s spectacular first half save probably the best of the night across all of the matches.