Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has explained how he sets his team performance goals in games they're expected to win.
With a gruelling schedule in which the Parkhead side plays out countless fixtures, it is easy for matches to become mundane, repetitive, and frankly dull.
To keep a spark and energy to his team's displays, however, Rodgers sets his players unique drivers: "Last weekend, going into Raith. we're expected to win," he said.
"We should win. But then we have to perform. Sometimes, you're given performance goals within the game to achieve.
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"Whether that's a counter-pressing, pressing, target, whatever. But every game is important here. I think players understand that.
"If they don't initially, they will do. Obviously, it's my job to drive that and to lead that. I know as well as anyone the importance of whether it's Raith, whether it's Bayern Munich or whether it's Dundee United. Every game is a big game here."
After playing out the first leg of a mammoth Champions League knockout round playoff tie with Bayern Munich on Wednesday evening, Celtic return to the bread and butter of domestic action later this afternoon.
Dundee United are in town as Rodgers' men aim to move 16 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership, for Saturday night at least.
Jim Goodwin's men are no pushovers, though, and remain the only team in Scotland who have stopped Celtic from scoring in a single game this season.
