CONFIRMED: BURKE, WEAH START



OLIVER BURKE and Timothy Weah are among four changes made by Neil Lennon to the Celtic line-up to face St Mirren in Paisley this evening.

The on-loan attackers come into the attack in place of Jonny Hayes and Odsonne Edouard who played in the 2-1 win over Steven Gerrard’s Ibrox outfit at Parkhead at the weekend.

The £10million French ace, who got the opening goal on Sunday, is on the substitutes’ bench.

Jozo Sumunovic also starts in place of the injured Dedryck Boyata, who limped off in the 75th minute, and Emilio Izaguirre comes in at left-back with Mikael Lustig on the right and Krsitoffer Ajer, a stand-out against he Govan men, in central defence alongside the Croatian stopper.

Ryan Christie is also among the stand-by players including Dorus De Vries, Jeremy Toljan, Filip Benkovic, Scott Sinclair and Tom Rogic.

Neil Lennon’s men go into the encounter with a 13-point lead in the Premiership table as they zero in on their eighth successive crown.

TEAM: Bain; Lustig, Simunovic, Ajer, Izaguirre; Brown, Nthcam, McGregor; Forrest, Weah, Burke. Subs: De Vries, Toljan, Benkovic, Sinclair, Rogic, Christie, Edouard.

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