Team’s Up – Steven Naismith names Hearts team for Celtic clash

Hearts manager Steven Naismith has named his team for this afternoon’s Cinch Premiership match against Celtic. The visitors from Edinburgh were in decent form before two defeats and could be on the end of a fired up Celtic, who will want to banish the memory of last weekend’s defeat at Kilmarnock.

It is a typical enough Hearts team, albeit there is still no Craig Gordon in the starting XI.

Hearts: Clark, Kent, Rowles, Kingsley, Atkinson, Baningime, Grant, Denholm, Cochrane, Forrest, Shankland.

Subs: Gordon, Halkett, Haring, Oda, McKay, Sibbick, Tait, Tagawa, Vargas.

Meanwhile, Brendan Rodgers has made two changes from the team that beat Feyenoord with David Turnbull and Cameron Carter-Vickers coming in for Tomoki Iwata and Stephen Welsh.

Hart, A. Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, Turnbull, McGregor, O’Riley, Palma, Kyogo, M. Johnston.

Subs: Bain, Oh, Kwon, Bernabei, Bernardo, Maeda, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh.

The game kicks off at 3pm with Kevin Clancy officiating. Celtic were 4-1 winners when the teams met earlier this season at Tynecastle in one of the team’s best performances of the season.