Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou faces a stick or twist call in his side's final Premiership game before Scottish football goes into World Cup storage.
The champions have no fresh injuries but Callum McGregor remains out with a knee problem. Fellow midfielder James McCarthy is missing with a hamstring issue. But Celtic aren't short on options with a host of key men desperate for a start in the final competitive match before the global tournament kicks off next Sunday. Daizen Maeda, Aaron Mooy, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Josip Juranovic are all heading to Qatar. But will any of them start with rotation the name of the game for the Celtic boss in a bid to navigate a jam-packed schedule in recent months.
Postecoglou has been averaging four changes per game over the past month but that might change with only one two go against Malky Mackay's Staggies. Ross County will not have any of their crocked players back for the trip to Glasgow. Jack Baldwin, Ross Callachan, Ben Paton, Ben Purrington, Connor Randall and Alex Samuel are all missing.
Here's how Record Sport expects the Premiership champions to line up.
Predicted Celtic XI
Giorgos Giakoumakis will fancy a start, however, Kyogo will be hard to shift. Daizen Maeda hasn't started since Real Madrid but has been key off the bench in his last two games and a role in reserve may be in order again.
Celtic provisional squad
Goalkeepers
- Joe Hart
- Scott Bain
- Benjamin Siegrist
Defenders
- Greg Taylor
- Moritz Jenz
- Cameron Carter-Vickers
- Alexandro Bernabei
- Anthony Ralston
- Stephen Welsh
- Josip Juranovic
Midfielders
- Reo Hatate
- Aaron Mooy
- Matt O’Riley
- Oliver Abildgaard
- David Turnbull
- Sead Haksabanovic
Forwards
- Liel Abada
- James Forrest
- Kyogo Furuhashi
- Jota
- Daizen Maeda
- Giorgos Giakoumakis
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