Cameron Carter-Vickers.

Cameron Carter-Vickers says Celtic are on the verge of hitting their golden number of points in the Champions League.

The Hoops centre-back hinted that Brendan Rodgers’ squad targeted a total of 10 at the start of the group stage. And if they manage to beat Club Brugge at Parkhead on Wednesday they’ll have achieved it - with three games to spare.


Carter-Vickers insists they’re in a confident mood, especially after their victory over RB Leipzig last time out. And the US international would love to hit that 10-point mark with a win over the Belgians.


Carter-Vickers said: “We feel really good right now. Right at the beginning of this competition we outlined how many points we wanted to reach but we've just been taking it game by game


We’re in a strong position but it’s about adding to that tally and seeing how many we can achieve. It was around 10. But we feel as a group we’re now close to getting out of this group phase.

“There are still four games and we want to get positive results in all of them. It’s us against ourselves now in terms of seeing how many we get.


Leipzig was a really good night for us, we controlled a lot of the game well and hopefully we can take that positive experience into Wednesday night


Carter-Vickers hopes their input can contribute to another memorable Champions League victory. He said: “They are definitely helping us. Arne has been giving us some pointers and so has Kasper. He played them four times last season so he’s also had some good information for us.”

Carter-Vickers believes it would be a major feat for Rodgers’ men if they can get through the group stage and reach the knock-out phase of the new-look Champions League.

He said: “It would be a big achievement for us. But our goal from the beginning is the knock-out round and we feel we’re pretty close. But we’re fully aware we have four tough games to go and we need to get points - so that’s our focus.

“We’ve grown as a group massively. Over the last few seasons, the Champions League has been a big learning experience for me and the rest of the squad. Now, you can see we’re a bit more mature and composed at this level. That has helped us pick up points.”

Boss Brendan Rodgers has been delighted at the work to get to seven and knows the knows the points scenario, but said: “I’ve not really thought about it really.


Our objective is to get into the play-off phase first and foremost and then we just have to see what points total that will take us. But for us, it really is focusing on this game and to bring the performance level.

“Halfway point. I think seven out of 12, we’re really, really pleased with. And not just that, I think it’s the performance level at and in the competition that gives us confidence.


But yeah, we get into our next run of games now and like I say, we just want to accumulate as many points as we can. But I think seven out of 12 is a really good start against the opponents that we’ve played

 

Clearly confidence growing within the team at this level. Great that CCV will be fit and ready to go tomorrow night. He is IMHO easily our most important defender.

 

Thought the big man reacted to the * up well. Didn't let his head go down. As I said in the match thread, it happened to Henrik vs Tirol as well.

 

The mistake happens.

Thought he was very good outwith that.

Him and Trusty were exposed constantly all night due to our horrific midfield organisation on the transition, and thought they coped well in the main.

 

Mistake aside he was solid but it's a schoolboy level mistake

 

School boy error for the own goal, you never pass in the width of your goal. He also total panicked and could have easily passed it towards Trusty and been far safer.

I actually thought he was relatively good otherwise. He gave the Tzolis zero space when he came in.

 

Happens. It's one of those genuine one-off freaks. A Cha Du-Ri.

He was good otherwise

 

It was his worst moment in a Celtic shirt and yeah you can count the mistakes he's made for us on one hand, but it was a * shocker and he should have been more aware.

Don't think they would have gotten a goal otherwise. They didn't create much despite completely nullifying us in the first half.

 

Bounced back from the mistake well - strong mentality.

 

Out of all the players in our squad that's allowed a one off like that, it's CCV.

He's been a freak with how good he's been the last 3 and a half years, and he recovered from it well.

 

He's been out of sorts for a while with that lingering foot injury.
Shocking schoolboy error at the goal.

I wouldn't be against giving him a rest the next few games, and bring Scales back to partner Trusty, they did very well together before.

 

Bit worried that his foot injury isn't 100% healed. Was weird that he changed his boots, also very uncharacteristic of him to make that og mistakes.

 

Sell.

 

Has one brain fart a year. Thank * that's over and he'll be back to zero mistakes this season. Some player. Just never noticed the keeper move out to offer khun a pass. * happens.

 

I would usually be raging with a player for that kind of thing but I instantly felt bad for him. You could see he was absolutely scunnered with himself for it

 

He's as reliable as it gets for us..

He knows he * up. It happens..