Patrick Roberts was in the Celtic squad that flew out from Glasgow to Israel today.
The on loan Manchester City winger suffered a hamstring strain in the 2-1 win over Astana on August 3 and has been out of action since then.
Scott Sinclair and James Forrest have stepped in to replace Roberts with Celtic now on the brink of reaching the group phase of the Champions League.
Getting Roberts back into action would be a major boost- and add to competition for places- with Chris Davies pleased to have the winger back involved.
“He’s coming back from injury, he’s had a few days training and he’s with the travelling group,” the hoops assistant explained about Roberts.
Looking ahead to the demands of Tuesday’s match Davies told the Celtic website: “There will be no issues with complacency. We have been very clear with the players. They are very focused and yesterday we had an opportunity where we could have possibly rotated some players but we didn’t. We chose to keep them in, win the game and keep that winning mentality and run going.
“From what we’ve seen of the players, led by Scott Brown the captain, who’s a real colossal figure for the team, there will be no issues of complacency for us. We know what we’ve got to do.
“We analysed them (Hapoel) before that game and have now analysed the first-leg in detail so we know where their threat is in attack, we know defensively a couple of their systems and we have a game plan for how we think the game is going to go and how we think we have can have success.
“It’s good to play against them to look at the first leg to learn about their team, players and system for the next leg. We’ve done that and we’ve got the plan.”
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