Super Eagles Defender Left Out Of Celtic Match Day Squad

Super Eagles defender, Efe Ambrose will fly out to join his Celtic team-mates in Maribor on Wednesday, after Celtic officials omitted his name from their Champions League squad for fear of being eliminated like Legia Warsaw.


The former Kaduna United skipper had been sent-off in the 4-1 first leg defeat to the Polish champions in the last qualifying round and was suspended for the return at Murrayfield.

But with Legia’s 2-0 win wiped out for fielding a suspended player, Celtic had been concerned that Ambrose’s punishment had therefore not been served.

There also appears to have been confusion as to whether he had been served with a one or two-match ban.

The central defender was absent from the Celtic party which left Glasgow airport for Slovenia on Tuesday morning but a belated call to UEFA headquarters in Nyon has confirmed he is indeed, eligible to play.