JAMES FORREST has spoke ahead of Celtic’s game at the weekend after a very long international break.
The last time Celtic played they fell to a 2-0 defeat to Livingston relinquishing control at the top of the SPFL.
Coming off the back of his Scotland call-up – the winger is now focussing on getting back to the top of the table and knows that starts with a win on Saturday against Ross County.
The winger admits it’s not a pleasant feeling being off the top and he and his teammates are ready to get back to winning ways.
“It’s a bit strange not being at the top of the table because it’s around 10 months since that was last the case. But it keeps us on our toes because we know if we slip up Rangers are winning regularly so it’s vital we take the three points off Ross County.” told RecordSport.
“Rangers went into the new year level on points with us last season but we tend to become stronger after the winter break in January. However, we can’t take anything for granted. It’s always tight going into the second half of the season and Rangers are stronger than they were a year ago.
“Hopefully that’s our bad performance and result behind us. Was it a wake-up call? You’d prefer to just keep winning but it’s practically impossible to maintain that high a level right through a campaign. Now we need to show a reaction to that display this weekend.
“We’d been doing really well but obviously we had a bad performance and a bad result just before the international break but we have a lot of big games coming up now and our squad will be used to the full.”
Celtic welcome Ross County to Celtic Park and will be hoping not only to win but win by a decent margin. It’s up to the whole team to react after the last two games.
If Celtic do win they will go to the top for at least 24 hours with Steven Gerrard’s men playing Motherwell on the Sunday.
