CARL STARFELT has revealed the players are doing everything to cut out the mistakes that have seen them drop so many points recently.
The Hoops have not been at their best and while there are extenuating circumstances when it comes to injuries, the bhoys should still be making a much better account of themselves.
The Swede revealed Ange and the players are closely analysing the games and where they can improve to make sure they start to pick up more wins.
Celtic take on Leverkusen on Thursday evening, the German’s sit 2nd in the Bundesliga at the moment and will fancy their chances against 6th in the SPFL.
Speaking to CelticTV today, Starfelt had this to say:
“I think our performances have been pretty good though obviously we haven’t gotten the results,” he said.
“One main part is to be more clinical when we get the chances and more clinical in our own box and not concede goals, and we have been working very hard on that.
“We hope to improve those parts especially but our play between the boxes has been pretty good. We have still been dominating games and creating chances and not conceding too many chances. “But like I said, we need to defend our goal better and we need to score with our chances.”
“We are of course analysing those and what we need to do better.
“It’s different things on different goals but I think the main part is that we need to be really brave in our own box and really work together in our own box to not concede.
“And of course we are going to be meeting quality players so it is important our defence is very good, and with our defence I mean the whole team, because we want to defend as a unit.
“Of course, it is going to be a tough challenge for us. Like I said, I think we have been playing good even though we lost away to Betis. We showed that we can play our football from the start against big teams even away.
“Especially now we are going to play at Celtic Park in front of our fans we are confident we can play out football and hopefully get a result.”
Celtic need to make home advantage count as much as possible in the Europa League. If they can’t mount a run then third place where they’d drop into the UEFA conference league would even escape them.
The bhoys in green have had some famous nights at Celtic Park and it would be a great night if the Bhoys could do something special. Most fans would likely take a draw right now but you never know.
