ANGE POSTECOGLOU may insist that his team never stop, but unfortunately for the Celtic manager, sometimes the league does. The challenge he has laid down to his players is to ensure the hiatus caused by the World Cup doesn’t also halt their charge towards another Premiership title.
Celtic will take up that fight this lunchtime against Aberdeen at Pittodrie, but Postecoglou won’t be satisfied by his team simply picking up where they left off in mid-November, when a win over Ross County ensured they could bask in the warmth of a nine-point lead at the top of the table, as well as the Australian and Portuguese sunshine, during their enforced lay-off.
Instead, he has told his players he expects them to ratchet their performances up a notch, and make sure they don’t take their foot from the throat of domestic opposition who have so far found it difficult to live with his team.
