Gary Hooper and Shaun Maloney are back in the Celtic squad to face Aberdeen on Saturday.
Both players missed last Saturday’s 3-0 win away to St Johnstone but have resumed full fitness with James Forrest also on the comeback trail.
“Hooper and Maloney should be fit,” Neil Lennon confirmed. “Hopefully Daryl Murphy will start training on Monday and James Forrest has started working outside now which is a good sign.
“Hopefully the inflamation is settling down but he might be another week or two away.”
New signing Olivier Kapo is short on fitness and won’t be considered for tomorrow’s match.
Celtic’s statement tonight trusting Stewart Regan to carry out the changes that he has promised at the SFA will have done little to encourage supporters concerned about the fall in refereeing standards.
Alan Muir is in charge of tomorrow’s match with Lennon unapologetic that referee’s have come under extra scrutiny.
“We’ve not done anything wrong,” the Celtic boss said. “The players don’t think that they’ve done anything either.
“Any manager whose had to put up with what I’ve put up with over the last few weeks can only learn from that experience.
“We want to win this game, we had a positive result and good performance at Perth now at home we want to make that advantage count.”
Aberdeen are managed by former Celt Mark McGhee who revealed that he nominated Lennon to be his successor at Motherwell.
The Fir Park side opted for Jim Gannon before sacking the former Stockport boss in favour of Craig Brown.
“I offered to recommend him to (Motherwell chairman) John Boyle for the Motherwell job,” McGhee admitted. “He’s gone into the job he maybe wasn’t expecting, but he’s done brilliantly.”
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