Celtic’s youth side face Rangers for the first time this season on Saturday at Airdrie’s Excelsior Stadium, kick-off 1pm.
Stevie Frail’s side are currently four points ahead of Rangers who have a game in hand with just five points seperating the top five teams.
Celtic won 2-1 away at Kilmarnock on Saturday with Frail and his players looking forward to the fixture in which both sides are judged.
The Celtic coach said: “We’re going into the match on the back of a win. We won’t need to build the players up for a game against Rangers.
“We go into the game at the top of the league and we need to make sure that we stay there.
“Everyone knows how important a Celtic-Rangers game is, we need to beat Rangers, they have a good squad and we’ll have to be at our best to beat them.
“Hopefully we can get a good week’s prepartion in on the grass at Barrafield, the surface is excellent and that gives us the chance to work on a lot of things.”
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