Brendan Rodgers is hopeful Leigh Griffiths will win his fitness battle and lead the line for Celtic in their Champions League qualifier against Rosenborg.

The Scottish champions were forced to play without a recognised centre forward in their 0-0 draw with the Norwegians in Glasgow with Moussa Dembele out through injury while Griffiths was suspended.

Attacking midfield Tom Rogic was Celtic's leading attacker on the night but it was the visitors who created the better chances.

Scotland international Griffiths is also carrying a calf knock but Rodgers believes the 26-year-old can feature in Trondheim.

Asked about Griffiths' availability, he said: "Hopeful. We will see where he is at the weekend.

"Even if he was available for this game he couldn't have played, with a calf strain.

"We we will see how he is over the next few days leading into next week.

"Of course it is (a concern) if you haven't got strikers. But I can't worry about it so much. I want to focus on finding a way to get a result so I will look at it going forward.

"I thought Tom did very well. Of course he wasn't quite playing as a striker, we played him just off in a withdrawn role.

"I thought at times our general play was very good, it was just that bit round the edge of the box where, when you have natural strikers, they manipulate the ball to get a shot in and they are a reference to the team to bounce the ball off.

"So maybe we missed that link in the final sector."