Ki keeps focus on title bid

25 July 2011 09:31
Ki Sung-yueng is looking forward to focusing all his attention this season on helping Celtic regain the Scottish Premier League title.[LNB] The South Korea midfielder, 22, had last season's domestic campaign disrupted by the Asian Cup which took place in January.[LNB]However, a more relaxed international calendar in the forthcoming months means Ki can target a long run in the Celtic engine room and he hopes to build on his performance and goal in Sunday's 2-0 win over Hibernian at Easter Road.[LNB]"I went to the Asian Cup last year so I was really tired and I was away at other times so it was confusing," he said.[LNB]"This season I have nothing, apart from a World Cup qualifier and that's no problem.[LNB]"I just want to play like Sunday and help the team win the league, that is the priority.[LNB]"I will try to score as many goals as I can this season and I am practising my shooting in every training session.[LNB]"Last season I got four goals, I want to score more than six this season.[LNB]"We have kept the players and we know each other really well. It was just the first game but there is a good feeling."[LNB]The Hoops never looked like losing after former Easter Road striker Anthony Stokes opened the scoring with a well taken close-range strike in the 14th minute following a mistake from Hibs keeper Graham Stack, who fumbled a Kris Commons' free-kick.[LNB]Ki then capped a fine performance with a low drive just after the hour mark to seal the points.[LNB]Stack made some amends when he saved Gary Hooper's penalty in the 68th minute but there was never any danger of a late Hibees' revival.[LNB]Celtic boss Neil Lennon, who praised defender Kelvin Wilson for his performance on his SPL debut, could afford to make a joke about yet another missed penalty.[LNB]He said: "I'm going to sign Matt Le Tissier and bring him back because it seems to be an Achilles heel for us at the minute.[LNB]"With Commons coming off, we decided to let Gary take a penalty if we got one but he is telling me it was a world-class save.[LNB]"But if we had gone 3-0 up it would have been very comfortable at that stage of the game.[LNB]"They do practise them but it is difficult to replicate a match situation."[LNB]Hibs manager Colin Calderwood struggled to take positives from the game.[LNB]"The disappointing thing is that we want to be lot closer to try to get points off Celtic and we weren't that close," he said.[LNB]"We didn't have to give them the start we gave them.[LNB]"We made some wrong choices in the second half but the experience will come.[LNB]"Some of the things we did in the first half was okay."

Source: Team_Talk