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can somehow knock them off their stride.
“Either way, you can’t let them get into full flow, because once they get up and running there’s just no way to stop them.
“There’s no magic formula. It’s just about working hard and trying to get as close to them as possible.
“We have to make contact. And, by that, I don’t mean fouling them.
“If you give any player in this league time on the ball, they are going to cause you problems.
“But if you give these Celtic players time on the ball, they are going to annihilate you.
“They have done that to us already this season, because I don’t think we ever really put in a tackle or caused them any problems.
“That’s something we’ll be trying to rectify this time.”
In the years of Rangers’ financial demise, with Celtic sleepwalking to titles, there was a sense the gap had narrowed between the champions and the rest.
Foster insists those days are gone. It is like the Martin O’neill and Dick Advocaat years all over the again.
He said: “Celtic and Rangers are back to where they used to be.
“The mindset, even when I was at Aberdeen, was that we would go down to Parkhead and only take four. They were that dominant.
“They are back to that level. So if you are not fully at it, and they are on top form, you can be on the end of a doing.
“That’s all the motivation we need to try to knock them off their stride a little bit.
“I’ve said to the guys that I’ve been to Parkhead with worse teams than us and won.
“It comes from a determination to do your job and help your team-mates out. But Celtic do need to have an off-day.”