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Sky Sports going pinch a ‘Stranger Things’-themed intro to bespeak nan alternatively overseas seasons some Old Firm sides person endured. I request my girl successful nan room to get immoderate of nan references.
Celtic make 3 changes from their woeful 2-0 conclusion against Motherwell past time. But there’s only a spot connected nan chair for caller signing Julian Araujo, who has joined connected indebtedness from Bournemouth. Celtic bring successful Arne Engels, Luke McCowan and Johnny Kenny from nan squad that mislaid astatine Fir Park while Liam Scales, Paulo Bernardo and Reo Hatate move to nan bench.
Rangers leader Danny Röhl makes 2 changes from nan broadside that edged retired Kilmarnock 2-1. Skipper James Tavernier and Mohamed Diomande are named among nan substitutes arsenic successful travel Dujon Sterling and Connor Barron.
Starting lineups
The squad sheets are in. Here are you starting XIs.
Celtic: Schmeichel, Ralston, Trusty, Tierney, Yang, McGregor, Engels, McCowan, Nygren, Maeda, Kenny.
Subs: Sinisalo, Scales, Yamada, Araujo, Bernardo, Hatate, Murray, Forrest, Donovan.
Rangers: Butland, Sterling, Souttar, Fernandez, Meghoma, Barron, Raskin, Aasgaard, Moore, Gassama, Chermiti.
Subs: Kelly, Nsiala, Aarons, Tavernier, Curtis, Dowell, Diomande, Miovski, Danilo.
It’s a chilly 1 grade astatine Celtic Park coming though nan ‘feels like’ thermometer awesome shows -3. Then again, successful Ohio, wherever Wilfried Nancy antecedently managed Columbus Crew, it’s -7 (no higher than -3 each day) truthful he intelligibly moved to Glasgow for nan weather.
Preamble
There’s thing different astir Celtic and Rangers being separated by conscionable 3 points up of a New Year’s Old Firm derby. But it is acold from nan norm to spot respective points tallies of 38 (Celtic) and 35 (Rangers) pinch 19 games gone. Those wobbles person allowed Hearts (41 points) to return complaint astatine nan apical of nan array and nan leaders should slope different triumph erstwhile they big bottommost nine Livingston tomorrow.
Rangers fans will wonderment really they’re successful a title title aft nan woeful commencement nether Russell Martin but nan baton of despair has now been handed to Celtic’s supporters, who person watched nan upturn nether stand-in leader Martin O’Neill wholly evaporate since nan assignment of Wilfried Nancy. The Frenchman has suffered 5 defeats successful his opening 7 games – unthinkable astatine Celtic – and different nonaccomplishment present could beryllium catostrophic.
Unusual times past though immoderate things ne'er alteration successful an Old Firm fixture. Glasgow braces itself. Ex-pats each astir nan world don either greenish aliases blue. Kick-off astatine Celtic Park is 12.30pm GMT.
