Saturday’s match is the second of six games the Hoops will face in December, and over the next week they will also have a trip to Croatia to take on Dinamo Zagreb before a League Cup final at Hampden against Rangers next Sunday.

However, the Celtic squad are looking no further than the 90 minutes ahead against Hibernian and the need to take all three points.

“The focus is on Saturday. That was clearly on our mind after Aberdeen – get back, recover and then look to bring our game and be really pro-active in the game tomorrow. So I’m looking forward to it.

'We love playing at home, we love the energy – our last home game we were absolutely brilliant and our idea is to bring a similar game and that’s something I’m excited about.'

“I’m not going to say that you don’t look ahead. Of course, you do. That’s the nature of my job and I have to plan forward, but you always have to look to the next game as your priority and you need to understand what it is that you’re thinking about for clearly the Zagreb game, like I was when we had Ross County but we had Aberdeen.

“So you have to plan forward but that’s an exciting part of the job. It’s absolutely brilliant. I’ve got a great group of players that are hungry, they’re ambitious and they all want to play, which is great. If they don’t, they respect whoever is playing, they look after their colleague and then we’re all in to get the result.

“We’re all in a really good place and I think that’s also part of the rotation. If you don’t have the depth of squad, and the strength in your squad you’re maybe having to play players for 90+ minutes three times a week, playing them all the time and then you have a greater risk of injury.

“What we’ve been able to do is manage the minutes of the players and where there has been maybe a little niggle, we can take someone out, or if someone has played a lot more minutes, then we have that possibility to take them out. That’s the benefit of having a depth of squad.

“So I’ve really enjoyed that aspect of it – picking the teams to put out and giving that opportunity for some of them to have some breathing space.

“It can also depend on the game that you’re playing and what it is that you want from the game – that’ll decide who plays also.”

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Manager of the Month Award
Victory at Pittodrie
Looking forward to Saturday’s game against Hibernian
Importance of the full Celtic squad
Influence of Kasper Schmeichel

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