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Cameron Carter Vickers reveals the Champions League points tally Celtic targeted before a ball was kicked
Cameron Carter-Vickers admits Celtic believe they are close to reaching the Champions League knockouts.
The Hoops can all but secure a play-off spot tonight if they beat Belgian cracks Club Brugge at Parkhead. Celts have already collected seven points and sit 15th in the newly-formatted competition, with their only defeat away to last year's runners-up Borussia Dortmund.
Stats indicate that the golden number to at least rubber-stamp a play-off place is 10 points, which should guarantee a place between ninth and 24th. And defender Carter-Vickers has revealed that was the tally Brendan Rodgers' men had targeted going into the campaign.
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He said: "At the beginning of the competition, we kind of outlined how many points we wanted to reach. It was around that (10) and I think we feel as a group, we're probably pretty close to getting out of this kind of group phase of the tournament.
"We've just been kind of taking it game by game. And I think we're in a strong position at the moment. So it's just about adding to that points tally and seeing how many points we can achieve. So like I said, there's still four games left and we want to get positive results in all of them.
"It'd be a big achievement. Obviously, it's a new format this year, so slightly different to previous years. But I think our goal from the beginning of the tournament has been to get to a knockout round. We feel that we're pretty close to that, but we're fully aware that it's still four tough games to go, and we need to get points from those games so we still focus."
Carter-Vickers will also approach the game with confidence after the convincing 3-1 win over RB Leipzig at Parkhead earlier in the month.
He said: "It was a really good night. I thought the performance throughout the game was pretty good. They probably had a 15-20 minute spell where they were really on top. But apart from that, I thought we controlled the game pretty well.
"So that's definitely an experience that we can look back on as a positive one and try and take that into tomorrow and build on it as well. I'm not sure if I would say it's a turning point. I think even when results haven't gone our way, we've always believed that before any game, that you can get a result.
"I think, more than anything the Leipzig game probably showed people outside of our team and our group that we can. We always believe that ourselves. But you know, it's definitely good to show others that and give others an example of what we've always believed."
