Martin O'Neill has been speaking to the media before Celtic host Livingston in the Premiership on Wednesday night.
Here are the key points:
New signing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could make his debut: "He trained yesterday and today so he is looking pretty good. I haven't picked the squad yet, but there is a possibility of that."
Kieran Tierney suffered a broken bone in his nose as well as suspected concussion after being kicked in the face during Saturday's extra-time cup win over Dundee, but "wants to be available".
On drawing Rangers away in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals, O'Neill says: "I kind of guessed it. I told the lads it was Rangers away or Dunfermline with Lenny [Neil Lennon]. Obviously a tough fixture for us and that's four games in about 10 days, but it is what it is."
Celtic have eight games in the next 24 days, ending that run with four successive away matches including two trips to Ibrox, and O'Neill admits it is a season-defining sequence, adding: "I feel as if we've been playing midweek since I arrived back the second time around."
Scottish Cup rules allow visiting clubs to request a ticket allocation up to 20% of stadium capacity, and O'Neill says: "I don't know what the club's stance is, but if you take me out of the club at this minute, just being a Celtic supporter, I want all the tickets that we can get, the allocation that's available to us under the rules, and I assume that would be forthcoming."
The Celtic boss says the Old Firm derby has "lost a little bit" because of reduced away allocations, adding: "It's one of the great fixtures in European football, if not the world, and I thought lost that. But at least there's some fans coming back now and that makes a bit of a difference."
Celtic's trip to face Aberdeen, which was postponed last week, is rescheduled for in between Celtic's visits to Ibrox and O'Neill says: "I thought the Aberdeen fixture was stuck in there very, very quickly."
He adds that could have been "considered" because four successive away games – including to Stuttgart in the Europa League – is "an awful lot of travelling" and it is "difficult to afford those particular fixtures".
On facing bottom club Livingston, O'Neill says his side are not good enough to be "taking anybody lightly" but there will be "some sort of rotation" amid a hectic schedule.
O'Neill confirms he will be watching league leaders Hearts at home to Hibs in the Edinburgh derby tonight.
