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Brendan Rodgers will take charge of his first domestic game for Celtic as they kick off their season against Hearts.
Celtic will make the trip to Tynecastle for the league opener on Sunday against last season’s third-placed side.
The Jam Tarts will be looking to start their domestic season strong after failing to progress in Europe last month.
Last season the two sides met four times, with Celtic winning three of the games and the other ended goalless.
Celtic
Erik Sviatchenko, Nir Bitton and Gary Mackay-Steven all returned to training but won’t be fit enough to play on Sunday.
Patrick Roberts is expected to miss up to three weeks of action with a hamstring injury.
Dedryck Boyata is still out once with a hamstring injury but could feature against inter Milan on August 13th as is Kris Commons who continues to recover from back surgery.
Jozo Simunovic is still recovering from knee surgery that he underwent in March and has returned to light training but is still short of match fitness.
Scott Allan isn’t is the squad after he joined English Championship side Rotherham on a season-long loan to get more first-team football.
Scott Sinclair is expected to be confirmed today in time for Monday’s Champions League play-off squad deadline.
Hearts
Robbie Neilson is still waiting to receive clearance from FIFA to complete the signing of striker Bjorn Johnsen.
Perry Kitchen’s remains out with a hamstring issue problem and will miss Sunday’s game.
Alim Ozturk is serving a one-match ban that was carried over from the end of last season.
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