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Ewan Paton

Aberdeen vs Celtic: TV channel, live stream & team news

After a comfortable afternoon on the opening day of the Premiership, Celtic face a tricky challenge in the form of Aberdeen this weekend.

Barry Robson's side are favourites to finish third in the league this term and have invested heavily in their squad. 

The teams will go head-to-head this week. Here are all of the details you need to know about the game...

When is Aberdeen vs Celtic?

Aberdeen takes on Celtic TODAY on Sunday, August 13. 

The game will kick-off at 12pm.

It will be played at Pittodrie.

Is Aberdeen vs Celtic on TV and can I live stream it?

Yes, thankfully the match will be shown live on TV. 

Sky Sports will showcase the match on their Main Event and Football channels. Although, only the first half will be viewable on the former, with their focus switching to Brentford vs Tottenham at 1pm.

The broadcast will start at 11am - an hour prior to the start of the game. 

Sky customers will be able to live stream the match via SkyGo.

Team news

For the visitors, Brendan Rodgers updated the media on the availability of his squad earlier this week. 

Oh Hyeon-gyu will be out for six weeks following a calf injury, meanwhile, Alistair Johnston and Marco Tilio are back in training and Abada is back after a knock at the weekend.

They have since lost Carl Starfelt who has joined Celta Vigo.

As for the Dons, there are no fresh injury concerns that have been made public knowledge at this time. 

It remains to be seen whether any new signings will be announced prior to this match. 

Robson said: “There are players we’ve identified that they want to bring in to give the current players a helping hand, we’re still gelling, every team is in the same situation”

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