Monday 19 September 2016 17:46, UK
Assistant manager Chris Davies believes Celtic must work on their resilience and become a team that can grind out results after their late setback in the Highlands.
The Hoops' perfect start to the new Scottish Premiership season came to an end on Sunday after they conceded an 89th minute equaliser from Alex Fisher to draw 2-2 at Inverness.
Celtic are yet to keep a clean sheet in the league under Brendan Rodgers and their only two cleans sheets have come against Motherwell in the Scottish League Cup and Lincoln Red Imps in a Champions League qualifier.
Davies admits Celtic should not necessarily have to score two or three goals to win a game and believes they must improve defensively.
"We have scored a lot of goals," he said. "Owain Fon Williams (Inverness goalkeeper) had a really good game and you can't always score all your chances. Of course you want to be clinical but we scored two goals.
"We want to be a team that wins by one goal, and of course we can do that. If we are not quite finishing the chances and the goalkeeper is having a special day, then we are resilient at the other end and we make sure we win the game by one goal.
"The goal was second phase from a corner, you have to make sure your organisation is good from the initial corner and the second phase and we have to make sure that doesn't happen."
Rodgers opted to rest veteran defender Kolo Toure from a Celtic back four that has undergone major changes during his short spell in charge so far.
Ten players have started in defence and young players such as Anthony Ralston have been involved off the bench.
An 11th, Jozo Simunovic, could start in Wednesday's Betfred Cup quarter-final against Alloa after returning from a knee problem off the bench against Caley Thistle.
With a full complement of defenders now available and with the arrival of right-back Cristian Gamboa, Rodgers now has the chance to mould his preferred back four.
"Continuity generally helps defence," Davies said. "Everybody wants that settled back four but sometimes with injuries and bits and bobs, it's not always possible.
"But we'll be looking in the next few weeks if we are dominating games and can't quite finish our chances that we give nothing away at the other end.
"We've got Jozo back, who came on and looked excellent, he was strong and with his passing."
