Everything Callum McGregor said to Sky Sports after Celtic's 1-0 win over Aberdeen in the Scottish Premiership...

How do you sum that up at the end?

Brilliant I couldn't have dreamt of a better scenario to get back into the team and score the winner. I thought we were outstanding, to be honest. We really dominated the game, played football, created lots of chances. It maybe didn’t drop quite as much as it normally does but to go all the way to the end again and get the winner tells you what’s in that changing room in terms of character and spirit.

How key was that patience, not panicking or trying to overplay?

That’s what we’ve been about for 18 months now. We don’t want to get frustrated, a lot of teams will sit in their block and block the game up. It’s important that we stick to the structure and stick to what gets us success. The manager is really big on that. I think now you can see that there’s no panic and we just keep trying to play down the sides, get little cutbacks and we get our reward in the end.

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Talk us through the goal...

Jamesy [Forrest] sees the picture on the inside, he just puts his foot on the ball and I get a touch and hit it. I think as soon as I hit it I knew it was in so it was just great.

You made more passes than any player has done in the Premiership this season...

That’s what you always try to do (get right involved). You want to help the team and I play that position where you normally get a lot of the ball. It was important for me to come back in and get up to speed as quickly as I could so I could help the team. The boys have done magnificently well when I was away. They got the results, it's just important I come back in and add to that.

How tough was it watching?

It was really tough, it was a hard period but I had a lot of good people around me to keep me level-headed and keep me working hard. I want to thank them for that too.