Confirmed Celtic vs Slovan Bratislava team news as Brendan Rodgers sticks with tried and trusted

Celtic go into their Champions League campaign with a real sense of optimism of progressing to the latter stages.

The new format means there are now eight games and that the games area spread out against eight different teams rather than playing sides home and away. And the Hoops have been handed a real favourable draw which gives them chances of getting points on the board.

First up is Slovan Bratislava at home and Brendan Rodgers' side are heavy, heavy favourites to get the win. They will have to guard against complacency after being bigged up so much but they've been on their game this season and the expectation is that will continue.

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Rodgers has been consistent with his team selection so far and has now named his team for this one.

Celtic starting XI: Schmeichel, Johnston, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Taylor, McGregor, Engels, Hatate, Kuhn, Maeda, Kyogo

Subs: Sinisalo, Trusty, Palma, Idah, Valle, Yang, McCowan, Nawrocki, Bernardo, Forrest, Ralston, Welsh

Slovan Bratislava starting XI: Takac, Blackman, Kashia, Bajric, Wimmer, Ihnatenko, Kucka, Barseghyan, Tolic, Weiss, Strelec.

Subs: Trnovsky, Hrdina, Voet, Medvedev, Marcelli, Mak, Zuberu, Gajdos, Vojtko, Szoke, Savvidis, Metsoko.