Source: FOOTYMAD
Ki to success
Club v country is always an issue but less so this time around for Ki Sung-yueng Ki Sung-yueng is glad his football diary is not so crowded this season as it was last season. He wants to focus his attention on his club football as Celtic drive to lift the SPL title once again. Last season's domestic campaign was disrupted for the South Korea midfielde rby the Asian Cup which took place in January. However, a more relaxed international calendar in the forthcoming months means Ki can target a long run in the heart of the side and build on his performance and goal in Sunday's 2-0 win over Hibs. He said: "I went to the Asian Cup last year so I was really tired and I was away at other times so it was confusing. This season I have nothing, apart from a World Cup qualifier and that's no problem. I just want to play like Sunday and help the team win the league, that is the priority. I will try to score as many goals as I can this season and I am practising my shooting in every training session. Last season I got four goals, I want to score more than six this season. We have kept the players and we know each other really well. It was just the first game but there is a good feeling." Celtic were in control of the game at Easter Road once 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. Ki then secured the points and topped off a fine performance with a low drive just after the hour mark. 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. Manager 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. 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. 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. But if we had gone 3-0 up it would have been very comfortable at that stage of the game. They do practise them but it is difficult to replicate a match situation."
