Kilmarnock manager Lee McCulloch: "We've got a couple missing through tonsillitis.

"Really looking forward to the game. Great surface out there.

"It's just really all about performance today and getting points on the board."

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Kilmarnock manager Lee McCulloch enjoys a tactical chat with Motherwell counterpart Stephen Robinson ahead of kick off at Fir Park.

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Saints boss Tommy Wright brings in Stefan Scougall, who may have something to prove since he was discarded by Hibs as a youth. Aaron Comrie is the player dropping out from the line-up that started the 1-1 draw at Celtic Park.

Hibs welcome back speedy winger Martin Boyle from injury in what looks like a very attacking formation.

Efe Ambrose is in central defence in place of the injured Darren McGregor and Boyle takes over from Vykintas Slivka, who drops to the bench after his international exertions with Lithuania.

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Hearts v Aberdeen (15:00)

Aberdeen will have a healthy travelling support inside Murrayfield this afternoon. And it's cracking weather in the Scottish capital - not Sunshine On Leith, but you get the picture!

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Defender Peter Hartley debuts for Motherwell at home to Kilmarnock. Fellow summer signing Liam Grimshaw is on the Well bench.

For Killie, summer striker signings Lee Erwin and Eamonn Brophy start, with Erwin playing against his former club.

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Hearing there has been a snag with Paul McGinn's move from Chesterfield. He's here with the Partick Thistle squad in Dingwall but does not play. Hopefully manager Alan Archibald can give us some clarity on the situation.

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Kilmarnock have only managed one win in their previous 10 meetings with Motherwell and the Ayrshire side are yet to pick up a league victory from a run of four home games.

Will a change of scenery work in their favour today?

"The international break has allowed us to refresh our minds after the Hamilton game where we blew a two-goal lead and ended up drawing," said manager Lee McCulloch.

"We've worked hard over the last 10 days and we'll be going out to rectify what's happened during the first month of the season.

"I don't want to make excuses but there has been a few changes in the squad over the summer and we've also been a bit unfortunate as our performances don't merit having just one point on the board."

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Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha on RangersTV: "We are very happy and satisfied with the squad we have. We have cover for all the positions, we have options, we have solutions, we have competitiveness.

"It's difficult to leave five players out plus one goalkeeper. This is the first 11 we have now. We used to say in Portugal, 'winning team so why change?' It's important to keep those associations with the players.

"Dundee's one team that plays positive football. It's important that we have teams that play like that. They cause you different problems rather than those that play long balls and you have to be aware of the second ball and the second wave. I think it's going to be an open game in that direction."

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Motherwell: Carson, Tait, Dunne, Hartley, Kipré, Rose, Cadden, McHugh, Bowman, Campbell, Moult.

Substitutes: Griffiths, Hammell, Grimshaw, Bigirimana, Fisher, Newell, Tanner.

Kilmarnock: MacDonald, O'Donnell, Greer, Findlay, Taylor, Burke, Thomas, Wilson, Smith, Erwin, Brophy.

Substitutes: Bell, Broadfoot, Waters, Frizzell, Power, Jones, Samizadeh.

Ross County: McCarey, Fraser, Kelly, Naismith, Davies, Routis, Draper, Gardyne, Keillor-Dunn, Curran, Mikkelsen.

Substitutes: Fox, Van der Weg, Lidsay, Dow, McKay, Schalk, Chow

Partick Thistle: Cerny, Nitriansky, Turnball, Devine, Barton, Elliott, Bannigan, Edwards, Spittal, Sammon, Doolan.

Substitutes: Scully, Erskine, Lawless, Nisbet, Storey, McCarthy.

Rangers: Foderingham, Tavernier, Cardoso, Alves, Wallace, Candeias, Dorrans, Jack, Kranjcar, Morelos, Miller.

Substitutes: Alnwick, Rossiter, Wilson, Herrera, Pena, Nemane, Windass.

Dundee: Bain, Kerr, Hendry, Waddell, Holt, Kamara, Allan, Deacon, Spence, El Bakhtaoui, Moussa

Substitutes: Parish, O'Dea, O'Hara, McGowan, Wolters, Leitch-Smith, Aurtenetxe

Hearts' Craig Levein has been talking to BBC Scotland ahead of his return to club management after a break of eight years.

"I am looking forward to today and it is good to start with such an important match," he said.

"The juices have started to flow again after being back on the training ground this week.

"I have felt a little bit of nerves of course.

"I am not 100% confident about what we're going to get today, but this week we have been stressing the old-fashioned playing for the jersey and I'm hoping we get plenty of that.

"Aberdeen are formidable opponents. But, if we want to go where we want to be, we have to win matches at home to sides like Aberdeen."

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Hearts: McLauchlin, Souttar, Hughes, Berra, Grzelak, Walker, Randall, Cowie, Callachan, Djoum, Isma.

Substitutes: Hamilton, Smith-Brown, Baur, Milinkovic, Cochrane, Stockton, Lafferty.

Aberdeen: Lewis, Logan, Shinnie, Considine, O'Connor, McLean, Rooney, Wright, Ball, Christie, May.

Substitutes: Rogers, Reynolds, Stewart, Maynard, Mackay-Steven, Arnason, Tansey.

Chris Brown, external says 'I really hope that we thump Hearts today, just for the fact that we weren't even allowed to train at Murrayfield. It's not even their stadium!'

@RonnyDavies says 'Scott Fox being dropped by Ross County... Seems a shame for a momentary lapse in concentration. Seems a shame for a momentary lapse in concentration.'

@petrie242: - 'Mon the Dee'

Thomas Mabon, external - 'Come on St Johnstone'

St Johnstone: Mannus, Foster, Shaughnessy, Anderson, Easton, Davidson, Paton, Wotherspoon, Scougall, O'Halloran, MacLean.

Substitutes: Clark, Tanser, Johnstone, McClean, Craig, Gilchrist, Cummins.

Hibernian: Marciano, Gray, Ambrose, Hanlon, Whittaker, Bartley, McGinn, Boyle, Barker, Stokes, Murray.

Substitutes: Laidlaw, Slivka, Matulevicius, McGeouch, Swanson, Stevenson, Porteous

St Johnstone boss Tommy Wright will want to get one over on his old Northern Ireland team-mate Neil Lennon today.

The Perth side are unbeaten in the league so far with 10 points from four outings - three points ahead of today's visitors.

"As a group, we don't look upon it as if we have done anything yet," he said. "We have made a good start but it certainly means we don't take our foot off the pedal.

"We need to keep working hard and doing the things that got us those 10 points. We know over the course of the season what you need to get into the top six.

"You probably have to look at 15 points every third so we have made a good start to that but the fact is that we want to get to 10 then 20 as quickly possible so we focus on the next game."

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Hibernian boss Neil Lennon signed a new three-year contract on Thursday, adding to the feelgood factor at Easter Road on the club's return to the top flight.

"It's been a good move for me, professionally and personally," he said when announcing the news. "I owe the club a debt of gratitude and I want to repay them with success on the pitch and hopefully make them some money along the way.

"I'm not looking any further than what I have here at the moment. I don't think you can. Sometimes, when you start doing that, you get distracted and lose your way a little bit."

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The big news is that goalkeeper Scott Fox is dropped after his howler against Rangers two weeks ago. In his place for the match with bottom of the table comes Aaron McCarey.

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Craig Levein makes four changes in his first game after taking over as manager as well as director of football following the sacking of Ian Cathro.

In comes new goalkeeper signing of Jon McLaughlin, formerly of Burton Albion, in place of Jack Hamilton, who has recently had a drop in confidence.

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And Ross Callachan comes straight into the starting line-up after his transfer from Raith Rovers.

Having earned another Northern Ireland cap, veteran Aaron Hughes comes back into the defence ahead of Michael Smith, who misses out through illness, while Isma is preferred up front to Kyle Lafferty and Cole Stockton, who both drop to the bench.