4 Celtic vs Rangers head to heads that will decide momentous derby including James McCarthy against Joe Aribo

It's nearly time for Glasgow's day of days and Wednesday's big derby between Celtic and Rangers will feature a number of running battles.

In a 22-player strong ensemble cast there are sub-plots and feuds aplenty and this week will be no different.

Both teams will miss some key players with injuries, suspensions and even international call-ups but that won't impact the quality of Wednesday evening with so much at stake.

These two sides are still immensely strong and it shows in the minute gap at the top of the Premiership.

Gio van Bronckhorst has a slight advantage but those two points will evaporate with a loss at Parkhead as Ange Postecoglou looks to go top with a victory.

On the flipside an away win would repair a damaging January and restore Rangers' advantage as we head into the final months of the season.

Here are four head-to-heads where the game could be won and lost.

Jota vs James Tavernier

"Our superstar from Portugal." That's what Celtic fans think of the Benfica loanee - though they'd very much like to stop referring to him as such. Might August's clash at Ibrox have been a different story with Jota on the left and Kyogo Furuhashi through the middle?

It raises an important question but of course Rangers were missing their skipper, the heartbeat of the team. And these two will get to know each other very closely across the 90 minutes.

Tavernier has endured something of a drop-off compared to last season but he's still performing very highly and has been helped by the change in manager.

Teams were learning how to exploit a gung-ho approach under Steven Gerrard and his runs forward are more carefully selected.

But has he come up against an opponent of Jota's quality yet? The number 17 just seems to have the