ANGE POSTECOGLOU has made six changes to his Celtic starting line-up for this afternoon’s Premiership match at Perth from the side that lost 3-1 to RB Leipzig in Germany in midweek.
Centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers is back to face St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park after missing the last three games through injury.
As well as the setback against the Bundesliga outfit, the rock-sold US international defender sat out the loss to St Mirren and the win over Motherwell.
GREEK FOR GO…Giorgos Giakoumakis will lead the line against St Johnstone.
Giorgos Giakoumakis, Sead Haksabanovic, Liel Abada, Alexandro Bernabei and Anthony Ralston are also in for the 12.30pm kick-off.
Crocked captain Callum McGregor was already suspended while moving to the back-up squad are Josip Juranovic, Moritz Jenz, Daizen Maeda and Kyogo Furuhashi with Greg Taylor dropping out altogether.
They are joined by Oliver Abildgaard who replaced the skipper in the Red Ball Arena, but looked well off the pace after his lengthy spell without first-team minutes during the summer.
TEAM: Hart; Ralston, Carter-Vickers, Welsh, Bernabei; Haksabanovic, O’Riley, Hatate; Abada, Giakoumakis, Jota. Subs: Siegrist, Bain, Kyogo, Abildgaard, Mooy, McCarthy, Maeda, Juranovic and Forrest.
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