Sutton injury worries O'Neill

Celtic manager Martin O’Neill today admitted Chris Sutton’s injury was giving him cause for concern ahead of Wednesday’s UEFA Cup quarter-final second leg with Villarreal.

The Glasgow giants fly out to Spain tomorrow on a high after today’s 3-1 victory over Livingston in the Tennent’s Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park.

But the sight of the two-goal Englishman leaving the field with a niggling groin injury left O’Neill concerned.

“Chris is sore at the moment so we’ll have to see how he is on Wednesday,” said O’Neill.

“It’s a groin problem that Chris has been carrying for a couple of weeks now. There is not much time to recover.

“But he wanted to play the game and we wanted him to play the game as well. Every time you play football you always run the risk of players being injured.

“It would be hard to say how he’ll be for Wednesday but I’m sure that he wants to play.”

O’Neill added: “On the plus side Joos Valgaeren played the game but we will have to make one enforced change with Alan (Thompson) out of the side on Wednesday.