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Celtic and Hearts face tricky European tests

Scottish football's European week is getting the podcast treatment, with BBC Sport's football pod zeroing in on two clubs under very different kinds of pressure: Celtic, whose continental form has been under scrutiny, and Hearts, who head to Switzerland for a European fixture while carrying a significant injury list.

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The latest BBC Sport football podcast frames Celtic's recent run in continental competition as a club under pressure to turn results around, without a specific scoreline attached to that discussion. On the other side of the conversation, Hearts are previewed heading into a European away day in Switzerland, with the squad's injury situation flagged as the main concern heading into the trip.

Neither club's exact fixture details, nor the extent of Hearts' absentees, were spelled out in the episode itself. It's a discussion piece rather than a match report: no opponent name, no team sheet, no scoreline for Celtic's recent run, just the shape of two problems heading into European week.

How Celtic respond, and how many Hearts players are actually missing in Switzerland, remain open questions until the teams are named.

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