Celtic will be unchanged this afternoon from the team that got off to a winning start on Monday evening with a 1-0 win over Dundee at Celtic Park…
The Hoops are on the road today with the first away day of the season taking place at Rugby Park as Celtic first foot the new hybrid grass pitch at Kilmarnock’s stadium.
Viljami Sinisalo will have the gloves for Celtic while the back four will be unchanged from Monday night with Alistair Johnston and Kieran Tierney at full backs and the central defence pairing being Cameron Carter-Vickers and Auston Trusty.
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Benjamin Nygren scored the winner against Dundee and he will be in the Celtic midfield alongside the Celtic captain Callum McGregor and Arne Engels.
Kasper Hogh will lead the line with Camilo Duran and Yang playing in the front three.
On the bench for Celtic will be Doohan; McCowan, Tounekti, Osmand, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Hatate, Murray, Forrest and Donovan.
The match which kicks off at 1.30pm will be refereed by Ryan Lee who will be assisted by Frank Connor and Daniel McFarlane. The fourth official will be Greg Soutar while Andrew Dallas will head up the VAR operation at Clydesdale House assisted by David Dickinson.
The game will be live on Sky Sports Main Event, Football, and Ultra HDR. Celtic Player/TV subscribers based outside of Britain and Ireland can watch the match live.
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