Celtic must make a decision on Sam Johnstone amid a major distribution concern that is not helping their basic style of play.
The Bhoys won again on Sunday, and they did so without anything glamorous, with weather conditions making it difficult to play good football, particularly when their opponents, Hibs, quickly resorted to putting the ball in the air.
Celtic came from behind and got the job done, continuing their strong form in the league and maintaining their four-point lead over Rangers in second place.
The Hoops have been poor in Europe, but they have largely been very strong in the league, with few teams giving them any real problems, aside from Rangers, who are the only side to deny them a win at this stage.
But even when you put Sunday's game aside due to the weather issues, Celtic are not a pretty team to watch. We have covered some of the reasons for that in another story, but what we know is that the Bhoys are not going to become anything close to a progressive team under Martin O'Neill and Shaun Maloney.
Now, there has been a battle going on between the sticks, with Sam Johnstone and Viljami Sinisalo battling it out for the number one spot, and it has largely been the latter who has gotten the nod.
But in the last two games, Johnstone has come in, and other than what was a difficult night for everyone against Benfica, Sinisalo hasn't done a lot wrong to merit being dropped, so it could be a case of rotation from O'Neill.
As a goalkeeper, in terms of shot-stopping, commanding his back-line and all that stuff, Johnstone looks fine at this level. There are no major concerns.
But his distribution hasn't been good enough. Johnstone is misplacing too many passes, and he is not confident enough on the ball to play the ball into difficult situations.
A quick look at the stats back that up, Johnstone has an 85% pass success over two Premiership games, and he has only attempted an average of 0.5 long passes between the two games.
As for Sinisalo, his pass success is a little better at 86.5% from league games, but he has averaged 2.3 long balls over his eight appearances.
What that tells us is that Sinisalo is playing more complex passes out from his box while remaining just as accurate, or a little more accurate.
We are seeing Sinisalo regularly coming up into the defence, offering himself as an option and forcing the back line up the pitch. He welcomes the difficult situations on the ball and puts his hand up if he makes a mistake within that circumstance, which is going to happen due to the complex nature of the passes.
But he is happy drawing pressure with the ball at his feet, and we haven't seen any major issues. Celtic already have an ugly enough style, which is fine, that's how some managers prefer to play to get results, and O'Neill doesn't have great tools at his disposal.
But they don't need to add to that by playing a goalkeeper who can only make easy passes or punt the ball up the pitch. Sinisalo gives O'Neill the option of playing football at the back and drawing other teams up the pitch, which important with many opponents sitting back against Celtic in the Premiership. That makes his selection vital, at least as the default number one.
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