Three changes for Arbroath cup clash

Georgios Samaras, Mikel Lustig and Beram Kayal have been brought into the Celtic side to face Arbroath tonight. 

Samaras and Kayal appeared as substitutes away to Kilmarnock while Lustig sat that match out after being injured against Spartak Moscow.

Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama are relegated onto the bench with Joe Ledley sitting the match out.

After drawing at home to the Second Division side Neil Lennon is taking no chances for tonight’s Scottish Cup replay with a trip to Raith Rovers awaiting the winners.

Lennon is likely to remain with a 3-5-2 formation allowing Emilio Izaguirre and Adam Mathews to push forward at every opportunity.

Looking forward to the match Lennon said: “We are taking this game very seriously. It is a different competition but one where we have had no recent success and we would like to progress so it is another important game.

“The way things have been going in the last week to 10 days, you want to keep that feel-good factor going and this is potentially very dangerous.

“I have been on the end of a few cup upsets as a player and a manager and I don’t want that to happen tonight.”

Lennon added: “It will be a new experience for me going to Arbroath and for most of the players as well but in the last couple of years we have been at Berwick and Peterhead so we know the attitude has to be right.

“I don’t know what the conditions will be like so we will have to adapt to them as best we can and play accordingly.”

CELTIC: Forster; Lustig, Ambrose, Wilson; Matthews, Brown, Kayal, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Samaras, Lassad

SUBS: Zaluska, Wanyama, Miku, McGeouch, Hooper

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