“Leigh Griffiths is now in the team and he’ll be desperate, absolutely desperate, to score tonight to give Brendan Rodgers a decision to make. 

"If he scores two or three goals tonight he’ll ask the manager some questions whether he should be in the team or not.”

Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner on BBC Radio Scotland.

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Kilmarnock: MacDonald, Hendrie, Addison, Boyd, Taylor, McKenzie, Smith, Dicker, Jones, Tyson, Coulibaly.

Substitutes: Mackay, Smith, Boyle, Boyd, Bojaj, Frizzell, Wilson.

Hearts: Hamilton, Paterson, Souttar, Rossi, Rherras, Djoum, Kitchen, Cowie, Muirhead, Watt, Sammon.

Substitutes: Noring, Oshaniwa, Nowak, Ozturk, Walker, Buaben, Johnsen.

Motherwell: Samson, Tait, Heneghan, McManus, Moult, Bowman, Cadden, Lasley, Clay, MacLean, McMillan.

Substitutes: Brill, Ainsworth, Lucas, McFadden, Ferguson, Hastie, McDonald

Inverness CT: Fon-Williams, Tremarco, Warren, Meekings, Polworth, Draper, Doran, Vigurs, Tansey, McKay, Doumbouya  

Substitutes: MacKay, Raven, Mulraney, Horner, Boden, King

Dundee: Bain, Holt, O'Dea, Hateley, Loy, Williams, McGowan, Haber, Kerr, Wighton, Gomis.

Substitutes: Mitchell, Vincent, Duffy, Etxabeguren, Ross, Teijsse, Grozhalov.

Partick Thistle: Scully, Booth, Welsh, Lindsay, Osman, Doolan, Barton, Elliott, Devine, Azeez, Edwards.

Substitutes: Stuckmann, Amoo, Erskine, Wilson, McDaid, Syme, Gordon.

Paul Mitchell
BBC Sport Scotland at Dens Park

Dundee scored eight times against Thistle last season but all three of the goalscorers are no longer at the club. Canadian international Marcus Haber makes his debut for Dundee and will partner Rory Loy up front. 

Partick Thistle name the same side that drew against Ross County on Saturday.

An all new attacking line-up for Rangers tonight with Michael O'Halloran, Joe Garner and Harry Forrester taking over from James Tavernier, Kenny Miller and Barrie McKay.

The other change is in goal with Wes Foderingham back in for Matt Gilks.

All four players that drop out are on the bench.

Celtic make a whopping eight changes, with only Craig Gordon, Erik Sviatchenko and Mikael Lustig keeping their places after Sunday's League Cup semi-final win over Rangers.

Ross County make two changes as Liam Boyce returns from injury and Chris Burke gets a start. Craig Curran and Alex Schalk are the forwards dropping out.

With an hour to go until kick-off, what have we got in store this evening?

The Scottish Premiership card looks like this:

Dundee v Partick Thistle

Kilmarnock v Hearts

Motherwell v Inverness CT

Rangers v St Johnstone

Ross County v Celtic

Kilmarnock sponsors QTS are warning they could withdraw their backing unless former chairman Michael Johnston resigns from the board.

Last week, Russel Smith stepped down as a director following unrest over Johnston's continuing role at Rugby Park.

Johnston, who bought into the club in 2005 for one pound, has reportedly rejected an offer of £1.9 to sell his 40% holding. 

Managing director of QTS Alan McLeish said in a statement to the Kilmarnock Standard, external that change was needed to move Scotland's oldest professional club forwards.

He said: "The ongoing pressures in the club boardroom are concerning for us, as our partnership with the club is in place to ensure that the team have the best possible resources to perform and focus on the main concern, their football.

"As a sponsor, we don’t like to get involved in the disputes, but the current arrangement is creating a very disturbing atmosphere that we feel is detrimental to the team’s success.

"The fans have made their point quite clear, they want Michael Johnston to go and considering the offer he has been made, I think he should seriously take it.

"Local business, fans, and the club directors have made their positions very clear, and I feel that I must agree.

"The only way the club can move forward now, is for Michael to stand down from the board and let the club move into a new era.

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"QTS would seriously be considering its sponsorship position if Michael stayed in place on the board. 

"We feel the only person who can take the club forward at this moment in time is Billy Bowie. Any other way would be to the detriment of the football club. 

Motherwell might be a little rusty this evening, having played just one match this month due to the international break and the League Cup semi-finals.

Manager Mark McGhee , who doubles as Gordon Strachan's right-hand man with Scotland, says it's been as "crazy season" in terms of disruption and admits he has his doubts about the winter break in January.

"Obviously I am involved in the international break so I can't say too much but it seems stop/start," he said yesterday. "It feels the breaks have been especially pronounced this year, they seem longer and seem more regular. We have to be careful to keep their levels of fitness up. 

"Then of course we have the winter break. It is unpredictable, you don't know when games are off. It could be that time of year, it could be early February. So from that point of view I am not 100% sure that it serves any other purpose other than it gives players the chance to recover from the first half of the season."

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Dundee are down in the dumps right now but the previous form guide suggests they have a great chance of moving off bottom spot tonight.

Paul Hartley's men have only victory from 10 league games this season but the Dark Blues are unbeaten in 14 Premiership meetings with Partick Thistle (W10 D4), the team immediately above them.

The home side are without Mark O'Hara, Faissal El Bakhtaoui and Nicky Low through injury, while the Jags are missing Steven Lawless, Chris Erskine, Tomas Cerny, Stuart Bannigan and Mustapha Dumbuya.

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Midfielder Charlee Adams is the latest Kilmarnock injury absentee ahead of tonight's Premiership visit by Hearts.

The 21-year-old on loan from Birmingham City is out for a couple of weeks with a thigh strain and joins Jonathan Burn, Greg Kiltie, Callum McFadzean, Dean Hawkshaw and Dapo Kayode on the sidelines.

Scotland Under-21 winger Sam Nicholson is starting a three-month rehabilitation period after undergoing knee surgery but is Hearts' only absentee.

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Aberdeen are not the only ones to have a fixture changed because of their cup progress.

With Alloa Athletic having reached the Irn-Bru Cup quarter-finals, their League One game away to East Fife due on Saturday 12 November has been switched to the following Tuesday.

The Fifers' league game away to Albion Rovers on Saturday 24 December has also been brought forward from a 15:00 kick-off to a 13:00 start at the request of both clubs.

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Aberdeen have been handed a busy, nine-game December after their Premiership match against Kilmarnock was re-arranged because of the Dons' progress to the League Cup final.

After Derek McInnes' side play Celtic in the Hampden final on Sunday 27 November, they travel to face Rangers on Saturday 3 December, now host both Killie on the Tuesday then St Johnstone on Saturday 10.

Three days later and Motherwell are the visitors, they travel to face Ross County (Saturday 17) then Motherwell (Friday 23), host Hamilton Academical (Tuesday 27) and finally are away to Hearts on Friday 30.

McInnes' side will have earned their breather when the new winter break arrives in January!

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Talking of rotating, it will be intriguing to find out if Scotland cap Matt Gilks retains a starting place with Rangers at home to St Johnstone tonight.

A series of fine saves by the summer signing held Celtic at bay until Moussa Dembele's late winner in Sunday's League Cup semi-final.

But Englishman Wes Foderingham has been preferred by manager Mark Warburton to the former Blackpool goalkeeper in the Glasgow side's Premiership games.

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