Celtic's season under Brendan Rodgers could not have gone much better, with a healthy lead in the league, a Champions League group stage place attained and the League Cup already in the trophy room.

On their return from the winter break on Sunday, the team defeated Albion Rovers 3-0 to march into the next round of the Scottish Cup but they also put themselves in touching distance of a record set by Celtic's greatest team 50 years ago.

The cup win means Rodgers' side are 25 games without defeat in domestic competitions, just one short of the marker laid down by the Lions in the 1966-67 season.

A win or draw against St Johnstone on Wednesday night would equal the club record.

As Celtic gear up for the challenge, we've looked at a comparison between this season's dominant force and the team that wrote their name in the history books.

There are some obvious differences between the two records from the start. Stein's side played in an 18-team top flight while the current set-up just has 12 teams.

The League Cup of 1966-67 had a group stage in which Celtic played Clyde, St Mirren and Hearts home and away.

While this year's competition included the return of the group stage, Scotland's European representatives did not enter until the second round.

That means the team of '67 reached the 26-game mark by Hogmanay but their balance of games is different from the current day. Of the 26, ten were League Cup matches with the other 16 coming in the league.

Rodgers' side have played 20 league games, four in the League Cup and one in Scottish Cup, with Wednesday's date with St Johnstone taking them up to 21 games in the Premiership.

Under Stein, the Lions won 13 of their 16 league games drawing three, scoring 56 goals and conceding 19.

There were only two points for a win in those days but, for comparison, had it been three points per victory then it would have earned them 42 points with only six dropped.

That's an average of 2.62 points per game (when converting a win to three points), with an average of 3.5 goals per game scored and 1.18 conceded per match.

This year's side have 19 wins and one draw, have found the net 54 times and conceded 14 goals. That puts them on 58 points so far.

For comparison, that puts Rodgers' side on 2.9 points per game, averaging 2.7 goals a game and conceding just 0.7 goals per match.

The '67 team steamrollered their League Cup group with aggregate wins of 5-0 over Hearts, 9-1 over Clyde and 9-2 over St Mirren in the group before knocking out Dunfermline and Airdrie en route to a 1-0 win against Rangers in the final.

The 2016-17 side may have played fewer games but still built an impressive record on the way to Hampden, defeating Motherwell (5-0), Alloa (2-0) and Rangers (1-0) before a 3-0 defeat of Aberdeen in the final to lift the silverware without conceding a goal along the way.

The 3-0 Scottish Cup win over Albion Rovers kept the knockout trend going.

Stein's side set their mark with 23 wins and 3 draws from 26 matches, scoring 91 goals and conceding 26 in the process.

Rodgers' new-look Celtic will line-up against St Johnstone with 24 wins from 25 games under their belt.

Their 68 goals scored so far means they won't match the scoring exploits of their predecessors but with only 14 goals conceded so far they do have a better defensive record.

"To be talked about in even the same breath as those guys that really created the legend of this club... obviously it would be a huge privilege.

"I haven't really thought about it, to be honest, just looked to win our games irrespective of what the consequence of that means.

"But of course anywhere that you're mentioned in that same breath as those guys then of course it gives a great privilege but we have a lot of hard work to do.

"St Johnstone will be a tough test for us. They've done very well with Tommy [Wright] and particularly they've done well away from home. We know it'll be a good test of our qualities but certainly again, it's another game we're looking forward to."