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Neil Lennon will be wary of former Old Firm adversary Francis Jeffers when he takes his Celtic side to Motherwell on Sunday.
The Irishman was skipper at Parkhead in 2005 when Jeffers had a short loan period at Ibrox.
The former Everton and Arsenal striker, 30, returned to Scotland earlier this month to sign for the Fir Park club and scored his first goal for Stuart McCall's side in the recent 2-1 win at Aberdeen.
Lennon is well aware of the threat the Englishman could pose to the Hoops' Clydesdale Bank Premier League title hopes.
"I know him, he was at Rangers," the Parkhead boss said.
"It's a good bit of business for Motherwell to bring someone of his experience to the club.
"He is a good player and knows where the goal is.
"He's crafty, he flits in and out of games and suddenly pops up with a goal.
"He's already made his mark, he's scored against Aberdeen so he is someone we will need to keep an eye on."
Beram Kayal is suspended for Sunday`s encounter while Freddie Ljungberg has a calf problem and will resume training next week.
On-form Celtic are strong favourites to cement their place at the top of the SPL.
The Hoops are eight points ahead of Old Firm rivals Rangers albeit having played two games more than the champions.
Motherwell, for their part, have blown hot and cold recently and after being thrashed 6-0 against Rangers at Ibrox they picked up maximum points away to Aberdeen and against Lanarkshire rivals Hamilton at Fir Park.
However, it was back to square one when they were beaten at home by struggling St Mirren in midweek but Lennon expects a tough afternoon.
"They had a bad result at Ibrox and bounced back with two decent results against Aberdeen and Hamilton," the Hoops boss said.
"I'm sure Stuart will be disappointed by the way they played on Wednesday night. They didn't do themselves justice.
"But we know they will be up for the game.
"It's live on television, there should be a good crowd there and the players will realise that they probably let their manager down and he will be looking for a reaction from them.
"Fir Park has always been a difficult place to get a result and I can't see Sunday being any different."
Motherwell manager McCall will tell his players to get the ball forward more quickly against Celtic.
Motherwell missed the chance to go fourth on Wednesday when they lost 1-0 at home to St Mirren with a performance McCall branded "unacceptable".
The former Scotland midfielder felt his players lacked St Mirren's hunger but he was also frustrated that they struggled to get the ball out wide to Jamie Murphy and the recalled Chris Humphrey.
And McCall has told his players to adapt to the barren and sandy Fir Park pitch when they face the Clydesdale Bank Premier League leaders.
"We've got a lot of good footballers in the side but at this stage of the season the conditions of the parks for playing free-flowing football is not great," he said.
"I think the other night we over-did the football by trying to play too many passes in wrong areas of the park.
"Some people think `well, at least you are trying to play the right way'. Sometimes you have to weigh up what's needed in any given game.
"At times we needed to get the ball in the box and create pressure.
"We were taking too many passes, and struggling to get the ball under control, to get the ball where we wanted to be. We didn't need 10 passes, we just needed two or three."
Murphy accepted his manager's criticism after McCall suffered what he described as his biggest disappointment since taking charge two months ago.
"He is a very determined guy, you could see that when he was playing," Murphy said. "That's the way he played and that's the way he manages.
"It would be weird if he didn't come in and shout at us after the game.
"All the boys accepted that, it was our fault we didn't play well."
McCall could be without four or five first-team players for the clash.
Stephen Craigan is suspended and Steve Jones, Steven Saunders (both hamstring) and Bob McHugh (wrist) definitely miss out, while Keith Lasley (ribs) and Steve Jennings (Achilles) are "touch and go".
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