ANGE POSTECOGLOU has told his Celtic players there will be no time off as they look to keep the foot to the floor in the race for the title.

Celtic are currently enjoying their first midweek without a match since the end of the winter break, but the manager is making use of the time to focus on getting some work in on the training field, a luxury that he has been denied over recent months.

He hopes that not only will the time he has with his players over the next fortnight reinforce some of his principles, but also reinvigorate his men mentally for the Premiership run-in.

“It’s not about days off, it’s just about freshening them off a bit,” Postecoglou said.

“The players will still be in at Lennoxtown but they will come in with a different mindset.

“When you know there is a game coming up in midweek, you tend to just work on your recovery.

“It will be great for the players to just train as normal as this is the first free midweek we have had all year. It allows them to freshen up mentally instead of preparing for a game in the midweek.

“I will freshen up a few and I’ll also get the chance to put some real good physical work into others who need it. The ones who haven’t had a lot of game time recently.

“I think it will be enormously beneficial for us to have two midweeks coming up.

“It’s eight days between Livingston and the cup game on Monday, and then we don’t play again until the weekend.

“That’s two good weeks of training before the international break and that is valuable time for us as coaches as we can actually do some work with the players.”