Kasper Schmeichel will miss the following 5 to 6 months recovering from an harm picked up on Intercontinental duty, ruling him out of around 7 Celtic fixtures, supervisor Brendan Rodgers has verified.

The 38-calendar year-old, who has forty six club appearances this term, picked up the knock in the course of Denmark's Nations League quarter-ultimate 2nd-leg defeat in Portugal previous month.

The Danish captain, that has 81 caps, played on within the 5-two decline that intended the Portuguese progressed five-3 on aggregate.

Asked regarding the very likely five-to-six-7 days absence, Rodgers explained to Celtic Tv set: "This is certainly just a thing that, day by day, we are going to take a look at, even so the timeline that was provided to us was perhaps around about that.