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Ross Pilcher

Pick your Hearts team to face Celtic

It'll be billed as such, but Celtic Hearts on Sunday will be as far from an actual dress rehearsal for the Scottish Cup final as you can get.

Celtic will receive the championship trophy while Hearts will take any positives they can get, but the priority for both will be to get the game over and done with while avoiding any sort of injuries or suspensions.

That's if they don't wrap every likely starter in cotton wool and have them nowhere near the pitch.

It's probably a given that Uche Ikpeazu, Peter Haring, Christophe Berra and John Souttar will all likely sit this one out for Craig Levein .

You can probably add Arnaud Djoum and Michael Smith to that list as well.

Reserve Player of the Year Alex Petkov might be rewarded with a first league appearance for the club, while youngsters Connor Smith and Andy Irving will likely be in the squad.

Harry Cochrane could yet have a role to play at Hampden, but needs more minutes after an injury hit season.

Things are looking exceedingly bleak for David Vaencek's Hearts career if he can't get some game time in this one.

Who would you send out? Pick your preferred team using our team selector widget below.

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