TALKING CELTIC
come easy. For us it is not as easy as it looks on the table. It’s a very competitive league,” said the Israeli international.
“I think every game is difficult and the other team are going to defend and try to get something out of the game.
“A lot of people look at the table and think Celtic are a far better team than others in the Scottish league and they have no competition. It’s far from being true.
“I think you can see that players who have played in the Premier League like Joey Barton or Niko Kranjcar that came to Scotland and thought it was going to be easy. But, no, it’s not easy. It’s a very competitive league, it’s a very difficult league, it’s very tough.
“Some places you go to play like Inverness on Wednesday night, believe me it’s not easy.”
Celtic are realistically only three games away from a domestic Treble, a feat that the Parkhead side have achieved only three times in their history.
The Parkhead side have not won the Scottish Cup since 2013 and Bitton is wary of deviating from the mantra that Celtic have re-iterated throughout this campaign.
“For us – we don’t think about the treble now. We take it game by game and while we make things look easy, it’s not easy,” he said.
“We need to focus on the cup and Sunday because in one game everything is possible.
“We need to win and get to the semi-final and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we can do it.”
“When you play for a club like Celtic you want to win everything and all the trophies.
“We have been unlucky in the last few years in the Scottish Cup and we want to go to the end this year. Hopefully we can do it.”
“The Cup is the Cup and everything is possible – we need to be ready for that. We want to make it easier and we want an early goal but if not then we need to keep it going.
“We have to make sure nothing bad happens to us and we can go to the end.
“I don’t know much about St Mirren for now but I’m sure the coaching staff will prepare us the best for the game and we’ll be ready.”