Cameron Carter-Vickers is assured Celtic can nonetheless progress to the Champions League regardless of needing to do what no Parkhead facet has managed earlier than – win in Kazakhstan.
After the disappointing goalless draw at Parkhead with Kairat, the USA defender factors to the truth that “it is a two-legged tie for a purpose” and feels Brendan Rodgers’ facet have sufficient high quality and up to date Champions League expertise to get the end result they want in Almaty on Tuesday.
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“We’re nonetheless assured,” mentioned the 27-year-old.
“It is a two-legged tie for a purpose. We all know we have to go over there and win, and we’re pretty assured we are able to do this. We did not play significantly nicely however we nonetheless had a good quantity of management within the sport.
“I believe we are able to have that management once more within the return leg, and our possibilities will come and hopefully we’ll take them.
“We had been virtually in an excessive amount of of a rush to do issues, and typically in these video games you have to be affected person, preserve the ball and transfer the crew back and forth. The standard within the last third and the creativity to create possibilities and rating targets was lacking.
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“I believe we’re assured we have now that throughout the squad, and hopefully subsequent week we are able to present that.
“Even when we might received, we might nonetheless have needed to go there and carry out and play nicely to undergo, so nothing actually adjustments in that sense.”
Requested if the gamers are in a position to block out the noise from the stands, with among the residence assist chanting “sack the board” amid unhappiness on the tempo of recruitment, Carter-Vickers remained unfazed.
“There’s at all times going to be [external] noise round a membership like this, however I believe it is one thing as a gaggle that we do pretty nicely [blocking it out],” he added.
“It is nearly us specializing in what we have now and what crew we need to be with the gamers we have now right here and getting on with the job. “