Callum Osmand of Celtic is injured Midtjylland vs Celtic, UEFA Europa League, Group Stage, Football, MCH Arena, Herning, Denmark – 06 Nov 2025Herning MCH Arena Denmark: Photo Michael Zemane. IMAGO/Shutterstock
Q: Just a final one from me, Callum Osmand comes off, he looks absolutely distraught. Can you explain what happened?
Martin O’Neill: “Yeah, he’s pulled the hamstring and that’s something that obviously, he’s very young, it’s never happened to him before, so he doesn’t know and yeah, he was distraught because I think the reason being he was just trying to get his career going. But if everything looks out well, he’ll recover from that and then start again. That’s what I’ve said to him, don’t do this. You will certainly get going, this is just a setback for you but it’s not terminal in that sense and you can fight back, you’ll be out for X number of weeks now. It is a shame because he was trying to make an impression but that’s it.”
Q: Martin, the club seem to be really struggling in terms of injuries at the moment, they just keep piling up, especially these hamstring ones. Do you feel that you’re going to be really light in the forward areas now over the next few weeks?
Martin O’Neill: “We definitely have a bit of a problem with it but that’s the nature, somebody has to step up and that’s the name of the game. So we just have to find a way. I thought that on reflection, I thought that Sunday, definitely, in terms of emotion of the game, the big match itself, I thought that it definitely took a lot out of us and I thought that we became a bit leggy. The irony of it all is that we fought back in the second half where we thought that’s where we might have gone under but we showed that resilience which hopefully stands us in good stead. But Sunday comes very quickly for us now and it’s just a matter of really trying to regroup.”
Martin O’Neill interim manager of Celtic Midtjylland vs Celtic, UEFA Europa League, Group Stage, Football, MCH Arena, Herning, Denmark – 06 November 2025Herning MCH Arena Denmark Photo Michael Zemanek Shutterstock IMAGO
Q: Just in terms of that, obviously it’s been such a great week for the club and the fans since your return with the two wins, do you feel that tonight was just a bit of a reminder that the club feels to have some way to go to get back to where they want to be?
Martin O’Neill: “Oh of course, absolutely. I couldn’t agree more, you’re right. This is, European football is where this club, because of the great Jock Stein, has been a priority, but tonight there, it can show you. We have to get to that stage again. We have to improve.”
