Team’s Up – 500 up Callum McGregor, Jota’s on the bench

Brendan Rodgers has named his Celtic starting XI and substitutes for today’s return to Scottish Premiership duties over at Fir Park against Motherwell…

Jota
Jota rejoices in Celtic return. Photo Kenny Ramsay.

Kasper Schmeichel is in goals despite missing training on Friday as Brendan had given the Great Dane an extra day’s recovery time due to his advancing years. Decent manager as always from the Celtic manager.

Cameron Carter-Vickers returns to provide additional stability to the back four that conceded four goals against Aston Villa in the Champions League in midweek at Villa Park. CCV plays alongside fellow USA international Auston trusty while the full-backs are Anthony Ralston on the right and Greg Taylor on the left.  Alistair Johnston  is rested after a heavy run of games.

Callum McGregor
Callum McGregor applauds the support after the 2-1 win over Kilmarnock in the Scottish Cup on 18 January 2025 at Celtic Park. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Celtic captain Callum McGregor makes his landmark 500th appearance for Celtic this afternoon and he is joined in the middle of the park by  Luke McCowan and Reo Hatate.

The front three for Celtic at Fir Park are Daizen Maeda, Nicolas Kuhn and Adam Idah through the middle.

On the bench for Celtic today Brendan Rodgers has plenty of quality to choose from with Jota the stand-out and the Superstar from Portugal is likely to get some minutes in the second half.

The Celtic subs are Sinisalo, Johnston, Scales, Jota, Yang, Nawrocki, Kenny, Engels and Bernardo.

The match kicks off at 3pm and is live on Sky Sports and also on Celtic TV for subscribers based outside of Britain and Ireland.

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Born just as Celtic were stopping the Ten, Lubo98 follows Celtic home and away and helps run his local Celtic Supporters Club. He goes to all the games and is a Law Graduate. Has a particular fondness for Tom Rogic among the current Celts and both Lubo and Henrik form his earliest Celtic memories.

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