Joe Hart insists Celtic can cope with pressure of chasing league and cup double
JOE HART insists Celtic can cope with the pressure of chasing a league and Cup double. The Hoops keeper — set to retire at the end of the season — is desperate to end his career on a high. Kenny RamsayJoe Hart wants to end his Celtic career on a high[/caption] And with five games remaining in the title race and a Scottish Cup semi-final clash with Aberdeen at Hampden this weekend, Hart admitted: “This is a BIG week. “We have the Scottish Cup and you don’t want any pressure off. “This is a competition we want to be involved in to the very end. We want to be there on May 25. “It was hard not being involved in the League Cup, but we got beaten fair and square at Killie.” Celts were made to work hard to beat St Mirren 3-0 on Saturday with the title race heading into the home straight. Hart added: “We’ve got momentum. But we’re hardly a team that’s had to suffer a couple of draws or defeats in a row. “We are a team that wants to win and keep winning. That word ‘momentum’ is key. “We work hard to play a certain way and when we play it well we are hard to stop.” Hart’s experience tells him the important thing for Celtic now is that they stay fully focused on each game that is ahead of them. He added: “Just stay in our lane, stay focused. “Also, it’s about drawing on the power of a club which is used to winning things and not being intimidated by that. “Learning from that, with the boys who haven’t done it learning from the boys who have. “Just encouraging people that we have some simple tasks ahead of us. We said it before the game and we keep saying it, we don’t just rock up on a Saturday. “We work really hard through the week to have a way of playing, to have solutions. “So we just need to rely on the hard work we have done all season and come good at the right time. “There is no other way to do it, you just have to keep it simple and take it game by game and training session by training session.” Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
JOE HART insists Celtic can cope with the pressure of chasing a league and Cup double.
The Hoops keeper — set to retire at the end of the season — is desperate to end his career on a high.
And with five games remaining in the title race and a Scottish Cup semi-final clash with Aberdeen at Hampden this weekend, Hart admitted: “This is a BIG week.
“We have the Scottish Cup and you don’t want any pressure off.
“This is a competition we want to be involved in to the very end. We want to be there on May 25.
“It was hard not being involved in the League Cup, but we got beaten fair and square at Killie.”
Celts were made to work hard to beat St Mirren 3-0 on Saturday with the title race heading into the home straight.
Hart added: “We’ve got momentum. But we’re hardly a team that’s had to suffer a couple of draws or defeats in a row.
“We are a team that wants to win and keep winning. That word ‘momentum’ is key.
“We work hard to play a certain way and when we play it well we are hard to stop.”
Hart’s experience tells him the important thing for Celtic now is that they stay fully focused on each game that is ahead of them.
He added: “Just stay in our lane, stay focused.
“Also, it’s about drawing on the power of a club which is used to winning things and not being intimidated by that.
“Learning from that, with the boys who haven’t done it learning from the boys who have.
“Just encouraging people that we have some simple tasks ahead of us. We said it before the game and we keep saying it, we don’t just rock up on a Saturday.
“We work really hard through the week to have a way of playing, to have solutions.
“So we just need to rely on the hard work we have done all season and come good at the right time.
“There is no other way to do it, you just have to keep it simple and take it game by game and training session by training session.”
Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
