Regardless of what comes next, Brendan Rodgers will be assured of his place in the Celtic story.

The 45-year-old has repeatedly spoken of his wish to leave a legacy at Celtic in terms of the style of football on offer and the success enjoyed in his tenure, but should he provide a back-to-back Treble this season his name will be etched on virgin territory.

No other Scottish football manager has achieved such a feat, something that Rodgers joked might see him invited back in the years to come.

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The Celtic manager was present last summer at the Glasgow Hydro as the club celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the Lisbon Lions and he is interested to see just how his own squad’s achievement’s are framed further down the line.

“Let’s see where we go over the next few years,” he said. “As we sit here now, the players have already done last season what no other team in the history of Scottish football has ever done.

“No team has gone through a season without losing a game to win a treble. It was only the fourth treble in Celtic’s history, under three managers. So they are already there (in the history books). But we don’t think about that.

“We will all be judged when we leave. In the present, you just have to keep on fighting and working to create this new history, keep looking to raise the bar and the standards. That’s all we think about.

“In 25 years we might get an invitation to the Hydro!”

The feeling is that if Celtic play to their full potential they shouldn’t be overly concerned regardless of what Rangers do.

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From the Ibrox side’s perspective there is a feeling that this is all or nothing as they look to bank some silverware and also take the shine off Celtic’s season.

There was a time when Hampden seemed like a bogey ground for the Parkhead side, something that seems like a distant memory since Rodgers’ arrival.

And the Hoops boss has revealed how eradicating the mental block around the national stadium was something that he had to address. The evidence would suggest it has been successfully negotiated; of the six visits to Hampden under Rodgers, Celtic boast a 100% return.

“We have faith if we play well, and we have evidence to show that when we do that we have a greater chance of winning, and I think what winning breeds consistently is that confidence,” he said.

“We go into the game, players are relaxed but focused on it. We know what we have to do. We have won our last four trophies and when I came in Hampden was the place that everyone didn’t seem to like.

“Very quickly we said to the players, ‘listen, you’re going to have to like it if you want to win.’ I think all of our performances there have been very good, some better than other but in the main we have performed very well and for that you need to be clear in your role and calm in your game and play the game and not the occasion.”

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This weekend is a chance for Celtic to take a definitive step towards that back-to-back Treble. With the League Cup banked and just three points required from the final five league games required to claim a seventh successive title, tomorrow is a chance to move within one game of a bit of history.

“It gets us to the final and gives us that opportunity,” said Rodgers.

“We still have to close out the league, but we are in a brilliant position to do that.

“It’s been a fantastic season. A challenging season, of course, with so many injuries. But if there’s one thing about this team - outwith the free-flowing football and everything that came with it last year - they have still done what they have done with all the barriers put in their way.”

There could be another footnote, too. In the modern era the highest sequence of unbeaten games was from Rangers in the 90s, with Celtic finally stopping the tenth game with a Scottish Cup quarter final win in March 1997.

Tomorrow could be the tenth unbeaten game for Rodgers in the fixture, although it is the bigger picture that the Celtic manager is more concerned with.

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“I never take too much heed of records. You get a chance to create your own. We can’t deny it has been a sequence of, in the main, very good performances which have led to those results against Rangers.

“Arguably our two most disappointing performances were at Parkhead, this season in December and last March. But you have to leave that in the past.

“In the last game at Ibrox, we came up against that little bit of adversity which really strengthens your resolve to go on and win a game.”

Stuart Armstrong is a doubt for the game with a calf injury but other than that Rodgers has the luxury of more or less a full squad to choose from.

The anticipation is that Craig Gordon will be back between the sticks will Leigh Griffiths might not start the game but will be available from the bench.

“In every game there’s been decisions to make,” said Rodgers. “The players respect I always try and put out the best team to win a game. I play different formations and different personnel and this is no different.

“What we have now is greater availability after having key players out with injury. Now I have choices. But that’s management. If you win you make the right choice and if you lose it’s not.”