“Over the course of the next three games, and in particular the next two, there will be lots of changes – players that I want to give an opportunity to, players that deserve the opportunity to play, the opportunity to recover some because I think this our 55th game of the season.

“So that’s a lot of games, but certainly over the course of the next week there will be changes in the team.”

Saturday’s Premiership clash with Hibernian will be the sixth meeting between the sides this season, with the most recent encounter coming back in March when the beat won 2-0 in a Scottish Cup tie.

“It was obviously very difficult for David and his team and the club right through until November, and it’s sort of been like a reversal of Aberdeen,” said the Celtic manager.

“They had that brilliant start but then the second part of the season has been a little bit more challenging, and for David it was the reverse of that, with a challenging first part.

“But since he changed the system in November when they went to a back five, that structure has really helped the team.

'The players you could always clearly see believed in him as a coach and as a manger, but they weren’t getting the results at the beginning of the season.'

“But now they had and they went on a fantastic run and in all fairness, when we played them back in the cup game a number of weeks back, they arrived in that moment in a really good place.

“However, we played a really good game that day and we know we’ll to play another really good game because they have targets they want to achieve in these last three games.

“We also have targets. We’re at home also, and we want to bring our level of game, but it should be a fantastic game of football.”

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