Ibrox team news: Dembele starts
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Moussa Dembele will start for Celtic against Sevco at Ibrox today.
The 20-year-old has been given the nod over Leigh Griffiths who is on the bench.
The other major decision for Brendan Rodgers to make was to push Stuart Armstrong forward into the Tom Rogic role with Callum McGregor coming in to partner Scott Brown.
With a 16 point advantage at the top of the table the hoops can go to Ibrox and express themselves playing the brand of football that has made #goingfor55 a reality with their points total.
In the first derby match of the season the dynamic duo of Joey Barton and Nico Kranjcar were handed a brutal lesson as Celtic won 5-1 on Philippe Senderos’ debut for the tribute act.
Moussa Dembele stole the headlines with a hat-trick after stepping in for the injured Leigh Griffiths.
At Hampden in October Dembele was again the hero with a brilliant back-healer in the 88th minute to book Celtic a place in the final against Aberdeen which they won 3-0.
CELTIC: Gordon, Lustig, Simunovic, Sviatchenko, Izaguirre; Brown, McGregor; Forrest, Armstrong, Sinclair, Dembele