Take who is starting against Eintracht Frankfurt, add four or five names who will likely be on the bench, and remove them from the list of possible players who will be starting today.
We can’t just throw the B team in against a Hearts team that will have plenty of quality and experience but it will still be one that will look totally different to anything that we have seen before and are likely to see again, trying to predict who will start is not an easy task.
Given what is at stake over the next week, this is who could start at Tynecastle, however, your guess is as good as mine:
I did try and warn you.
I hope that Gio doesn’t play any of the regular key players and yet I still have a feeling that Connor Goldson and James Tavernier will be starting, if they do, I’d expect them to be on no longer than the first 45 minutes.
From the midfield forward we still have a few more options especially when you consider our lack of strikers, if Cedric Itten is fit I’d expect him to play just so that we can keep Fashion Sakala fresh for Thursday night where he could be a starter, at the moment it’s between him and Scott Wright.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, a result would be nice but the priority is just getting a few of the young lads exposure to first-team football against a decent team and getting everyone back to Glasgow fit, Hearts players have a little more to play for in terms of cup final places but even they won’t want to risk missing out – it’s going to be a strange game either way, put it that way.