Celtic vs Motherwell. Scottish Premiership.
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Friday 14 October 2016 15:50, UK
Defender Mikael Lustig and midfielder Nir Bitton will be assessed ahead of Celtic's Premiership meeting with Motherwell on Saturday.
Both players are carrying knocks having returned from international duty with Sweden and Israel, respectively.
It was Tom Rogic, however, who was the Celtic man who won the air miles race this week, the 23-year-old clocking up over 20,000 miles having been involved in Australia's 1-1 draw with Japan in Melbourne on Tuesday.
But he has shown no sign of fatigue and Brendan Rodgers said: "Tom Rogic got back from Australia on Thursday morning and came straight to training to prepare for Saturday's game."
Rodgers will also be keen to use his resources wisely with five games scheduled in the next 15 days, including the visit of Borussia Monchengladbach on Champions League duty on Wednesday and a League Cup semi-final against Rangers next weekend.
Away games at Ross County and Aberdeen follow, and Rodgers said: "For me, it's just making sure we go into next game revved up to work as hard as the previous games. We'll focus on Motherwell and then look at Borussia. You can't cast ahead too far.
"In the Dundee game we weren't as fresh but that made the result even more impressive. Our opponents in the Champions League all lost that weekend and we went to a tough place not at our best and won."
Motherwell are still without Carl McHugh who suffered a serious head injury at Kilmarnock in August. Joe Chalmers will be out for six weeks after groin surgery, but midfielder Chris Cadden has recovered from a hamstring injury and could feature.
Mark McGhee acknowledges that the gulf in resources means the cards are stacked against his side but he takes succour from a positive result in Glasgow last season.
He said: "Celtic have a bench now where recently Leigh Griffiths hasn't been getting game time and any of us would jump at the chance of having Leigh Griffiths.
"I said to Leigh the other night (in Slovakia) when he went on to go and get us a couple of goals but then tweak a wee hamstring, but then he said 'you don't need to worry about me - you need to handle Moussa (Dembele)'."
He added: "I have no idea what their budget is but I'd say it's at least ten times what ours is, so they have a better opportunity to be better than us.
"But that was the same case last season too and we went there and won (0-1), so we have to cling to that."
