Brendan Rodgers says Celtic are in charge of the Scottish Premiership title race resulting from their consistency, not Rangers’ woes.
The Hoops – who tackle Ross County on Saturday dwell on Sky Sports activities – are 15 factors away from their Outdated Agency rivals following their win over Dundee United, and Rangers’ draw at Dundee.
Celtic have received 18 of their 21 league matches this season, with their solely defeat coming in a 3-0 loss at Ibrox, and are on target to retain the title plus a possible home treble, having already received the League Cup.
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Highlights from the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Dundee United.
Nevertheless, regardless of Celtic’s home dominance, Rodgers insists complacency is not going to set in amongst his group.
“I think we’re 15 points clear because we’ve been so consistent,” he instructed Sky Sports activities Information. “There could be loads of highlight on different groups and Rangers, for instance, being that far behind.
“However you’ll be able to then have a look at it and go, nicely, Celtic have truly persistently performed very, very nicely and have not slipped up a lot and simply confirmed that consistency.
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“When you may have that resilience as a staff and mentality as a staff, that may clearly provide you with a contest benefit as such. However for us, the main focus is all the time on ourselves and on Celtic and the way we work and the way we play and hopefully that continues to ship these constant outcomes.
“I don’t think there’d ever be complacency here. I think there’s always the challenge of people being too content and too happy with how things can be, but not at the biggest clubs. You can never afford to do that. That’s something we’ve shown consistently takes place. We’re always focused and ready for our next game.”
Rodgers requires reintroduction of winter break
Celtic may very well be with no host of attacking choices in Dingwall on Saturday, with James Forrest and Luis Palma dominated out of the journey to the Highlands, whereas Nicolas Kuhn and Daizen Maeda are doubts resulting from muscle accidents.
The match can be Celtic’s fourth in 10 days and Rodgers would help the reintroduction of the winter break “if it was ever possible”.
He added: “When I used to be up here, we knew that December was going to be a hard schedule, getting through all of that.
Nicolas Kuhn (R) and Daizen Maeda (L) are doubts for Celtic’s journey to Ross County
“Then you had your New Year’s game and only then you’d have a couple of weeks to reset, refresh and then go again for the second part of the season.
“To then even have much more video games in that interval, now that we do not have a break, it’s a actual problem. You possibly can’t deny that.
“We will do everything we can to produce the best performances and results and be focused on that as we possibly can be. However, it is a really heavy schedule.
“You have to produce the very best product you could and that may be a problem when you may have so many fixtures.”
