Ange Postecoglou pleased to see Celtic on the right road

Ange Postecoglou always expected his Celtic players to take time to impose his preferred style of play on their travels.

But he feels they have shown they can do that as they prepare to return to the venue where their away form began to turn.

Celtic won 2-1 at Pittodrie in October to end an eight-month run without winning an away game in Scotland.

The hard-fought victory came courtesy of Jota’s late winner and after Postecoglou had suffered defeats in his first three league games on the road as well as three losses in European away games.

Celtic have now won 11 and drawn one of their last 12 away games in Scotland as well as beating Ferencvaros in Hungary and just coming up short in a five-goal thriller in Leverkusen.

The latest away game was a 4-0 victory over Motherwell where the new cinch Premiership leaders followed up their dominant derby win over Rangers with another classy display of attacking football.

“That’s part of the evolution of the team,” Postecoglou said.

“That’s always the tricky bit at the start, to get the team to believe we can play our football both home and away, until you achieve that and accomplish that, and the players embrace that even more.

“We tried to do it in Europe as well, whether that was playing away at Betis and Leverkusen. We didn’t win those games but it was further reinforced to the players that the way we play our football will be consistent irrespective of venue, opponent, competition.

“Again in theory that’s all great but you have got to get the buy-in through results as well.

“Since that (Aberdeen) game, you break the narrative of, ‘Can you win away from home?’ But, more importantly, ‘Can you play this kind of football away from home, in difficult conditions sometimes?’

“I think