Neil Lennon wants his champions to complete their league campaign in style with two more victories.
Saturday’s win at Aberdeen clinched the title and surpassed last season’s points tally but Lennon has no intention of easing up in the remaining matches at Ibrox and at home to Hearts.
There has been some talk of rotating the squad for Sunday’s derby match but with less than a fortnight to go in the domestic season the hoops boss will be fielding as strong a side as possible.
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It’s a game that we want to win and I’d like us to finish on 90 points. We’re on 84 at the minute so getting to 90 would be a good way to finish the league.
Obviously with it being a derby there will be an edge to the game. We want to put a marker down, going there as champions is a great feeling but we have to play the game not the occasion, I want us to be strong and resolute, we have to play on the front foot.
It’s the next one (derby match), the last one has gone, we had a great win, psychologically it was huge. Rangers have been very good since then but so have we. I know that there won’t be many Celtic fans in there but we are representing the club and that’s a big responsibility to go there as champions and act accordingly.
Full-backs Mikael Lustig and Kieran Tierney are the main injury concerns with both players being replaced during the second half of the win at Aberdeen.
Lennon has his own targets with seven wins and three draws since taking over from Brendan Rodgers on a caretaker basis, three wins to complete the season and a Treble Treble would strengthen his prospects of becoming manager on a permanent basis.