Colby Donovan, Marcelo Saracchi and Seb Tounekti make their Celtic debuts today at Kilmarnock.
Donovan and Sarachi have made three substitute appearances in recent weeks but start for the first time alongside former Hammerby winger Tounekti.
Despite all of those changes there is still no place in the squad for Jahmai Simpson Pusey who was signed on a season long loan from Manchester City.
Shin Yamada, Johnny Kenny and Hayato Inamura are also missing from the squad as Celtic look to get back to business following a dramatic transfer window that left fans and Brendan Rodgers very frustrated.
It looks like Rodgers is continuing with a 4-3-3 formation although there is no obvious right winger in the starting XI.
A win will put Celtic back into top spot alongside Hearts, Kilmarnock have drawn all four SPFL matches under new boss Stuart Kettlewell
CELTIC: Schmeichel; Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Sarachi; McGregor, Hatate, Nygren, Balikwisha, Maeda, Touekti
SUBS: Sinisalo, Yang, McCowan, Iheanacho, Engels, Bernardo, Murray, Forrest, Tierney
I don’t think we’ll see the true skills of this new team on that abomination of a plastic pitch…
Only in Bonnie Scotland – Only in Scotland…
even some obscure team like Haven’t & Waterlooville would have to ditch the monstrosity if they were to be promoted from The Vauxhall Conference to Division 4 in The Football League and wanted to compete !
I don’t know why Brendan persists with Casper as Viljami is a far better keeper in my opinion and can marshal and organise the defence better. He has all round skills.
I also thought that artificial pitches were to have been phased out in the top division and should disappeared last season.