Brendan Rodgers loves playing the pressure game.
In most countries in the world two trophies and a cup final to look forward to would be enough to earn the players a free pass after also qualifying for the group phase of the Champions League.
Not at Celtic.
The five remaining SPFL games will be watched closely with 60,000 fans hoping to salute an invincible season when the trophy is presented at home to Hearts on May 21.
Tomorrow at Ibrox a win over Sevco is expected and demanded by the Celtic support with Rodgers comfortable with that level of expectation.
“If you want to be successful you can’t get away from it,” the Irishman explained to the Daily Record.
“What you have to do as a coach and as a manager is regulate the pressure, redirect the pressure, so it doesn’t affect your flow but you can’t be in a club where there are 60,000 supporters and have the demands of a club like Celtic yet not have pressures.
“If you have it, it is about how you use it, how you rebrand it. And winners have that.
“If you are a loser, you might not want it because you don’t think you can win.
“When you are a winner and you want to win there is always that element of it, that bubble in your tummy that is anxiety of whatever.
“It is how you regulate it, how you redirect the flow of pressure. That is where it comes on to me and I can get the players to stay calm and play football.”
Moussa Dembele is the only player unavailable for tomorrow as Rodgers faces upto his last derby clash of the season.
While Pedro Caixinha has slammed his players and rows with them over holidays Rodgers has managed his squad with diplomacy keeping everyone happy as the hoops close in on a clean sweep of domestic trophies.