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    CLYDESDALE BANK SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE
    Venue: Easter Road
    Date: Sunday, 19 February
    Kick-off: 1500 GMT




    Hibernian welcome back Leigh Griffiths, Paul Hanlon and James McPake from suspensions.
    On-loan midfielder Tom Soares is a doubt, while left-back Callum Booth (Achilles) joins winger Danny Galbraith and Ian Murray on the sidelines.
    Thomas Rogne is back in the Celtic squad after a calf injury.
    And fellow defender Daniel Majstorovic will be available after winning an appeal against his sending off against Inverness last week.




    Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster: "I think there is still plenty of football to be played.
    "We are just focusing on ourselves and we just need to keep winning games and whatever happens with Rangers happens.
    "It's important that we don't take our feet off the gas and show complacency.
    "We'd love to win the league and it doesn't matter how we do it.
    "It doesn't matter if we play great football or we win ugly. It's just important we get ourselves to that line and cross it."








    Hibernian manager Pat Fenlon: "I'm hoping the atmosphere from our supporters will be up and at 'em - back to the old days when Celtic didn't like coming to Easter Road. We've got to get back to that.
    "It's more about us. We can't afford to worry about other clubs. We have got our own problems to sort out here.
    "Get in there and make a racket, make it an intimidating place for anyone that's coming from Glasgow.
    "Going back over the years, Easter Road wasn't a nice place to come for big clubs.
    "We have got to get back to that. Make sure it's as noisy as possible and enjoy the game."






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