Celtic defender Liam Scales admits it harm to listen to supervisor Brendan Rodgers declare he was unsurprised by their poor efficiency within the defeat by Hearts.
The Irishman believes he and his team-mates shall be stung into motion by Rodgers’ evaluation once they host Livingston on Saturday.
It was a primary home defeat at Celtic Park for nearly three years however a second consecutive loss within the cinch Premiership – the primary time the champions have misplaced back-to-back league video games in additional than a decade.
Celtic had already drawn at house to St Johnstone and Motherwell this season and Rodgers had revealed he was the angriest he had ever been as a supervisor when his aspect trailed in Perth weeks earlier.
Scales was amongst a small group of gamers Rodgers absolved of blame following Celtic’s 2-0 defeat by Hearts however he believes the evaluation will spark them out of complacency.
Scales mentioned: “I can see the place he is coming from. It isn’t good to listen to however clearly performances have not been the place they need to most likely be. He makes level.
“It does harm as a participant to listen to that. We have to change that and never let that be the case once more.
“We feel like sometimes we expect it to just happen. Just playing at home or against teams in the league, just expecting it to happen without going out and taking it by the horns and being aggressive and going and winning.
“We will not simply present up and that is perhaps the place we have to brush up.”
Defeats by Kilmarnock and Hearts have seen Celtic’s lead at the top of the table cut to two points.
Rangers have a game in hand and are unbeaten in 15 matches under Philippe Clement with the Viaplay Cup also back at Ibrox for the first time in 13 seasons.
Celtic fans are concerned about their team’s form, especially with a game against Rangers to come on December 30 before Rodgers has the chance to strengthen his squad.
Nevertheless, Scales is assured they’ll get again to their greatest rapidly.
“It’s been a tough week getting to grips with it,” mentioned the Republic of Eire worldwide because the membership introduced the Celtic FC Basis’s Christmas Attraction had raised £397,000 for charities in Scotland and Eire.
“We’re getting over it and we know we need to bounce back. We are working hard to do that. We’ve had a week to prepare which is unusual with the schedule we have. We’ve been using the week well to go over things and fine-tune things for the upcoming games.
“We all know it is not adequate for Celtic. The stress is there and you already know it’s essential to win video games and something however a win is not adequate. Over the course of a season it is not disastrous, if we bounce again and do nicely it needs to be tremendous. However it’s been a troublesome week and we simply want to repair it now.
“It’s in our hands to turn it around. It’s a minor blip in the course of the season and we need to turn the corner and get over it. It’s not a complete disaster.”
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