Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon 賞賛するs boss Brendan Rodgers and his 'relentless' 決意 to 改善する

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In the 影響 of the League Cup Final victory over Aberdeen last month, the ありふれた 主題 の中で those Celtic players eulogising about Brendan Rodgers’ 衝撃 since coming to the club was his repeated 強調する／ストレスing of the need to be relentless in 追跡 of success.

Now just six games shy of reaching the winter break undefeated 国内で, it’ s （疑いを）晴らす the Celtic 経営者／支配人’s words have been embraced in the manner he would have hoped.

For all the 平行のs that have been drawn with the first season of the ツバメ O’Neill 時代, Rodgers’ team are already two points better off at this juncture than the class of 2000-01.

Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon believes Brendan Rodgers' 味方する are more 確信して now and relentless in their 追跡 for silverware

If that in itself is a sobering thought for the chasing p ack, there is also much to 示唆する that the 仕事 of knocking the 支持する／優勝者s off their pedestal may be about to get even more difficult.

Come January, Rodgers and his 味方する will 長，率いる to Dubai for an eight-day warm 天候 training （軍の）野営地，陣営 designed as much for 残り／休憩（する） and rehabilitation as it is to 容易にする better 質 開会／開廷／会期s. There is also every chance one or two blue-半導体素子 新規加入s could be on board by then.

Once 敵意s 再開する with a Scottish Cup tie with Albion Rovers on January 21, Celtic will 見解（をとる） the 残りの人，物 of the （選挙などの）運動をする without 関心s over 疲労，（軍の）雑役 に引き続いて European matches.

It says much about the attention to 詳細（に述べる） of Rodgers and his backroom team that league points were only 流出／こぼすd once after a European match (a 2-2 draw with Inverness に引き続いて a 7-0 敗北・負かす to Barcelona) but Celtic’s 排除／予選 from 大陸の 競争 means that is one いっそう少なく thing for them to worry about.

While talk of the Treble and remaining invincible in the 過程 is presently 存在 laced with 警告を与える, the 決意 to continue to carry out the manage r’s 指示／教授／教育s to the letter by keeping the foot 圧力（をかける）d to the metal is evident.

‘Europe is gone now but there’s a 抱擁する 量 to play for,’ said keeper Craig Gordon.

‘This is a big month for us and there are a lot of games. It’s an 適切な時期 to put a lot of points on the board.

Gordon says the hard fought 3-3 draw against Manchester City was a personal 最高潮の場面?

‘We won’t be 緩和 off because we want to really 軍隊 home our advantage in the league.’

Eight points （疑いを）晴らす of 特別奇襲隊員s but with three games in 手渡す, it would take a 勇敢に立ち向かう man to bet against Rodgers’ 味方する wrapping up the 肩書を与える before the 分裂（する） even comes into 見解（をとる）.

Hamilton, who soon come to Celtic Park, would surely trump their 伝説の victory of October 2014 were they somehow to 現れる 勝利を得た.

Because while R odgers’ men were unable to 成し遂げる a Houdini-like escape from their 支持する／優勝者s League group, they still showed themselves to be competitors rather than 関係者s at that level.

‘We’re more 確信して now,’ Gordon 追加するd. ‘We keep the ball an awful lot better than we did in that first game in the Nou （軍の）野営地，陣営.

‘The 経営者／支配人 has been relentless with us to make sure we are 改善するing all of the time.

‘There’s been a 抱擁する 量 of hard work on the training ground from him and the coaching staff to make sure we do 改善する.

‘I think people could see in the 業績／成果s in the games that we got better all the time.

Gordon has been 決定的な for the Hoops this season and says his 味方する are 改善するing all the time

‘It’s such 罰金 利ざやs at that level and that’s something we will take 今後 for next time.’

By the time Rodgers 味方する left Manchester City’s Etihad last Tuesday with a deserved の近くにing point, the memory of that seven-goal hiding to Barcelona on Night One was ever more distant.

If last week’s level of 業績／成果 is replicated 国内で, talk of doing the clean sweep without losing will only grow.

‘I thought it was a good 業績／成果 on Tuesday,’ said Gordon. ‘We played 井戸／弁護士席. We kept the ball 井戸／弁護士席 at times, managed to play out and got through them on occasions.

‘We created plenty of chances and could かもしれない have won the game.

‘It was a really 肯定的な end to the （選挙などの）運動をする. A lot of people 示唆するd we’d be lucky to get one point in our group let alone three but there’s a bit of 失望 it’s not more.

‘If you look at some of the moments in the games, we could have had more points on the board.

‘We 行方不明になるd a few chances that could have turned some of those draws into three points and that would have made a 大規模な difference to where we ended up.

‘We were の近くに - it certainly felt like we were not far away.

‘If we can continue playing like we did in Manchester and continuing to 改善する then there’s a good 適切な時期 to hopefully do 井戸／弁護士席 in the 競争 next year.’

While failing to 勝利，勝つ a game for the first time in the 競争, Celtic, in many 尊敬（する）・点s, did better than many 心配するd. まっただ中に it all, a game for the ages stood out.

‘The 3-3 draw against Man City was probably the 最高潮の場面 for me,’ 解任するd Gordon.

‘The atmosphere at Celtic Park was something special. That game gave us the real springboard to believe we belonged at that level.

‘Most of the boys hadn’t 証言，証人／目撃するd something like that before. We’d heard about the big 支持する／優勝者s League nights and there were some 広大な／多数の／重要な atmospheres in previous European games, like の間の Milan, but nothing like that night against Man City.

‘It was another level and once you get a 見本 of that it just makes you hungry to get it again.

‘It’s been hard work and some 失望s, but there were some really enjoyable moments along the way and, as a group, we’ve learned from the experience.

‘The 支持する／優勝者s League has been everything I hoped. It’s 広大な／多数の／重要な to go away in the knowledge we can play at that level.

‘When we started this （選挙などの）運動をする there wasn’t many who had tasted 支持する／優勝者s League football but now we all have - and it will make us stronger.

‘We’ve shown we have the 信用／信任 to compete against these 味方するs and we all have that 抱擁する ambition to get 支援する again.’

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