Difficulty Of Celtic Dominance 'desensitised' - Mcgregor

Captain Callum McGregor believes continued occurrence astatine Celtic should not beryllium underestimated, saying that nan club's domination has "desensitised everyone to really really difficult it is".

Celtic are connected nan brink of a 13th Premiership title successful 14 years arsenic they clasp a 15-point lead pinch 5 matches remaining.

Brendan Rodgers' broadside are besides beardown favourites to hit Aberdeen successful nan Scottish Cup last arsenic they bid for a sixth treble successful 9 seasons.

Asked astir gathering lofty expectations connected specified a accordant level, nan midfielder said: "I deliberation it's desensitised everyone to really really difficult it is. It conscionable becomes expected, it becomes nan norm.

"But nan players person to past unrecorded pinch that because it's nan standards that they've set.

"The level of player, nan level of squad that we've managed to build present complete nan past 10 years aliases truthful has been a really successful team.

"So each twelvemonth nan anticipation is there. It grows and grows and you person to enactment pinch that arsenic a player.

"It's a benignant of double-edged beard for america because we are nan ones that person group that anticipation but that's wherever you want to beryllium arsenic a footballer. You want to beryllium tested, you want to beryllium playing connected nan limit each nan clip and expect to person success."

Celtic enjoyed a bully tally successful Europe excessively this season, making it to nan play-off information successful nan Champions League, wherever they narrowly mislaid retired to Bayern Munich.

"It's a really precocious barroom but it's what nan group present pridefulness themselves connected each year, is trying to triumph each nan home trophies," McGregor added.

"And past nan large point for everyone connected nan extracurricular is that we did make advancement successful Europe.

"Everything astir nan nine is successful a bully way, everybody feels bully astir it and, make nary mistake, erstwhile we travel backmost successful nan summertime past it resets and nan anticipation is location again to effort and beryllium moreover better."

McGregor is connected nan cusp of overtaking nan 23 trophies won astatine Celtic by nan legendary Billy McNeill, pinch only existent team-mate James Forrest and Bobby Lennox up of him connected 25.

"When you're measurement backmost astatine nan commencement and you get nan first one, you consciousness for illustration you're connected apical of nan mountain," nan midfielder explained. "And you support doing it, support being successful, it ne'er really fades successful that sense.

"But evidently complete nan play of clip I became much and much involved, played bigger roles arsenic nan seasons went on, truthful you consciousness much responsibility, you consciousness much anticipation connected you to beryllium nan feline that drives nan squad forward.

"When you consciousness much responsibility, yet it feels amended erstwhile you really do transverse nan decorativeness line."