Celtic have received an injury boost ahead of Sunday’s Old Firm.
Mikael Lustig believes he will be fit for the fixture, as quoted by the Daily Record.
The Swedish international picked up a knock to his thigh against Romania, last week.
He sat out his country’s thrilling 3-3 draw with neighbouring Norway on Tuesday evening, but that could be it in terms of time on the sidelines.
“It feels much better”, said Lustig of the injury, as quoted by
the Record.
“If the match had been tomorrow [Wednesday] I think I would have been playing.
“I think so”, he said when asked if he would be available to face Rangers. “I will train on Thursday and then we will see.”
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Lustig is an international standard defender and he would undoubtedly have been a miss for Celtic if unavailable.
However, Ryan Kent gave the right-back the run around at Ibrox in December.
The 22-year-old tortured him in wide areas on the day and did him all ends up in the wide channel before setting up Ryan Jack’s winner.
Based on that, it’s a matchup that Kent will be relishing and Lustig surely dreading.
If the Gers can get some momentum early on and get their Liverpool loanee running at the Swede, it could pay dividends once more.
