Kenny Crawford
BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park

Brendan Rodgers hopes Filip Benkovic will only be out “a number of weeks” and return before the end of the season.

The manager is also hopeful captain Scott Brown will sign a new deal but nothing is confirmed as yet.

Rodgers had nothing to report on rumoured target Jeremy Toljan and dismissed any links to Bryan Oviedo.

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"This is our game in hand so we want to take advantage at home," said Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers at his media conference yesterday.

"At this part of the season, to have that six-point gap would be great but we know we have to earn that. You see lots of teams taking points off each other this season but we are on course for where we want to be at the end of the season.

"If we get the result, it gives us a nice little cushion."

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Four changes for St Johnstone with Blair Alston, Danny Swanson, David Wotherspoon and Michael O'Halloran coming in and Liam Gordon, Ross Callachan, Matty Kennedy and Tony Watt making way and dropping to the bench. New signing Niall Keown is also among the substitutes.

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Three changes to Celtic’s starting XI tonight. In come Jozo Simunovic, James Forrest and Oliver Burke with the injured Filip Benkovic making way and Timothy Weah and Mikey Johnston dropping to the bench.

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Rangers manager Steven Gerrard makes eight changes to his starting line-up following the weekend win at Livingston with only Nikola Katic, Ryan Jack and Daniel Candeias retaining their places. Youngster Jordan Houston is among the substitutes.

Just the one change for Gary Bollan's Cowdenbeath following their defeat by Clyde on Saturday. Blair Malcolm starts and Jordan Allan drops to the bench.

Celtic: Bain, Lustig, Simunovic, Ajer, Izaguirre, Brown, McGregor, Christie, Forrest, Burke, Sinclair.

Substitutes: Gordon, Bitton, Hayes, Edouard, Weah, Henderson, Johnston.

St Johnstone: Clark, Foster, Kerr, Shaughnessy, Tanser, Alston, Davidson, Swanson, Craig, Wotherspoon, O'Halloran.

Substitutes: Hurst, Callachan, Hendry, Kennedy, Watt, Gordon, Keown.

Cowdenbeath: McGurn, Mullen, Talbot, Pyper, Deas, Miller, Cox, Malcolm, Renton, Fraser, Buchanan.

Substitutes: Goodfellow, Swann, Sheerin, Scott, Allan, Henvey, Sneddon.

Rangers: Foderingham, Flanagan, Katic, McAuley, Halliday, Jack, Davis, Coulibaly, Candeias, Lafferty, Defoe.

Substitutes: McGregor, Worrall, Houston, Kent, Arfield, Middleton, Morelos.

This game was called off on 18 January just three hours before the scheduled kick off, with small patches of the pitch deemed unplayable.

It's a bit colder this evening and we had snow in Fife yesterday but not to worry since the pitch has been covered and a large contraption has been blowing warm air under the plastic, with Rangers chipping in to help cover the costs.

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Celtic have the chance to extend their Premiership lead to six points this evening.

The champions have eased back into business after the winter break with comfortable wins over Airdrieonians, St Mirren and Hamilton - scoring 10 and not conceding.

St Johnstone should offer sterner resistance. Only Celtic have kept more clean sheets in the league than Tommy Wright's men and the Saints drew both of their visits to the east end of Glasgow last season.

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Brrrr... It's chilly out there but we have a couple of games to warm your cockles this evening, with Celtic hosting St Johnstone in the Premiership and Rangers visiting Cowdenbeath in the Scottish Cup.

If you're heading along to one of those, make sure you've got the thermals on.

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