Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy stressed there will be no letting up in his quest for improvement if his side move top of the William Hill Premiership on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The champions will leapfrog Hearts if they beat Motherwell at Fir Park after securing wins in their previous two matches.<\/p>\n
Nancy has steadied the ship after losing his opening four games but Celtic have conceded 13 goals in his tenure following Saturday’s 4-2 win at Livingston.<\/p>\n
That is two more than they did in the first 16 matches of the season under Brendan Rodgers, and more than double the amount they shipped during Martin O’Neill’s eight-match spell in interim charge.<\/p>\n
Going top of the table would further settle the initial drama around Nancy’s start but the Frenchman knows there will remain improvements to make.<\/p>\n
“If we win the game and this is the situation, yes, for sure we’re going to be happy,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But let’s prepare for the game, let’s have a good game. Let’s maximise our chance to win the game. And after that, if we have to be top of the table, we’re going to be.<\/p>\n
“And if this is not the case, we know that the season is long.<\/p>\n
“But the idea is to keep the momentum. The idea is to improve regarding the game that we had on Saturday. To be able to get better.<\/p>\n
“My job is to challenge the players. So we did really good stuff on Saturday. I would challenge them to keep doing what we did. And I would challenge them also to do better regarding certain things. But at the same time, I would support them.<\/p>\n
“I want to push more. I want to do more for my players.”<\/p>\n
Motherwell lost 3-2 at Celtic Park in October after Daizen Maeda headed a stoppage-time winner for the hosts.<\/p>\n
And Jens Berthel Askou’s side also suffered a narrow victory against Rangers at Ibrox on Saturday to end an unbeaten 10-game league run.<\/p>\n
Nancy said: “I expect a good game, because I have seen them play and it’s a team that likes to play. It’s going to be a bit different, I would say.<\/p>\n
“They’re still physical, but they also like to play. The coach has not been here for a long time and the way they were playing before is not the same as today.<\/p>\n
“So, an exciting game to play. A difficult game, but we’re going to accept this challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy stressed there will be no letting up in his quest for improvement if his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-217008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}