Ibrox side Glasgow Rangers and Celtic don’t have much recovery time from their Europa League exerts.
Rangers and Celtic kick off their Premiership games early on Sunday.
Steven Gerrard’s Gers side visit St Johnstone at 12:15, while the Hoops’ visit of Kilmarnock starts 45 minutes later at Parkhead.
Both Rangers and Celtic were in Europa League action on Thursday and the Ibrox side, whose win over Feyenoord finished at 10pm, have much less than three days recovery time.
And Gerrard has told The Scottish Sun that the SPFL have done his side and Celtic no favours with the scheduling.
The Edinburgh derby between Hearts and Hibernian kicks off at 3pm.
He said: “Certainly for us and Celtic, you would like to think that our own league would help us in terms of kick-off times. But they go the other way and make them earlier and they give you morning kick-offs.
“It is not good is it, when you are kicking off at eight o’clock on a Thursday night and your players, the adrenaline and you can’t get a sleep until three or four o’clock in the morning and then our league, who are supposed to be our governing body who help us, go and agree a kick-off time at 12.15 on Sunday.”
Celtic are protecting a 100% record in the Premiership after winning all five of their games so far.
Neil Lennon’s side are three points clear of second-placed Rangers, whose only defeat so far this season came against the Bhoys prior to the international break.
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