Falkirk trio Jackie McNamara, Burton O'Brien and Kjartan Finnbogason are all sidelined ahead of Sunday's SPL visit of Celtic (12.45pm).

McNamara has been ruled out for six weeks with a knee ligament injury and O'Brien, who missed last week's defeat at St Johnstone with a stomach muscle strain, is out for eight weeks.

Finnbogason faces three weeks out with a knee injury, while Thomas Scobbie (pubis) remains on the sidelines.

Falkirk (from): Olejnik, Barr, Mitchell, Twaddle, McLean, Lynch, Arfield, Lima, Marceta, Flynn, Finnigan, MacDonald, Stewart, Wagenaar, Murdoch, Allison, Sludden, Robertson.