Liam Scales is plotting a dream week with victories over Rangers and England.

The Celtic centre-back has already celebrated one win over fierce rivals Rangers on Sunday.

Now, the 26-year-old is desperate to add a triumph over England for Ireland to his recent successes.

Scales is in the national team squad for the match on Saturday with team-mate Adam Idah also involved.

"Yeah, it's probably never happened before that a player will have Rangers one week and then England the next," said Scales. So it's as good as it gets. Hopefully, we can do as well as we on the weekend against Rangers. I hope we can bring that in with Ireland against England.

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"It will be the first one I'll have been involved in. I know we played them a few years ago but it will be hugely important. You know the history and everything that comes with it. The atmosphere will probably be brilliant and I'm really looking forward to it.

“It’s different, playing for Celtic and playing for Ireland. With Celtic we have time to work together every day and get things right. Here it’s got to be everyone in and straight at it, take it all on board as quickly as possible.

“That’s what we are doing, trying to get the information, the way we want to play, bring that into the game on the weekend and hopefully we’ll get a good result. It is a similar sort of intense rivalry, in that it’s not just about football.”