“We’ve done that against St Johnstone this season, and even Hearts away, that was a bit of a back-and-forth game and I felt we would always score.

“It’s good as a squad that we have that and we need to continue to do it.”

The result put Celtic seven points clear at the top of the Premiership with two games remaining before the break for the World Cup.

The first of those two games is on Wednesday with a trip to Motherwell, before hosting Ross County on Saturday, and the stand-in Celtic captain wants to end this period in a positive fashion with six points out of six.

He added: “We’re looking forward to the next two games and it’s important we get two good performances and results and that will set us up nicely for after the World Cup.

'Since the manager has been here we’ve only focused on our performances and what we’re doing and that’s what we’ll continue to do.'

“We don’t look too much at the points. There was a stage last season where we were six points behind and we managed to come back and win the league.

“We know there’s still a lot of points to play for and it’s still early in the season so it’s not something we take too much notice of.”

The focus for Wednesday is three points against Motherwell. However, Carter-Vickers will also have an eye on news coming from the other side of the Atlantic.

The USA will announce their squad for the World Cup and the defender is hopeful he will be involved, but no matter the outcome, his attention will remain on the task at hand for the club.

“For me, it’s always in the back of my head but the way I look at it is that as long as I’m performing here and playing well consistently, that will give me the best chance of making the squad,” he said.

“As a person, I’m quite chilled and what will be will be. It’s the USA manager that makes the decision and all I can affect is my performance here so that’s what I’m focusing on.

'It would be a dream come true. You grow up as a kid watching World Cups, so to be part of one would be a special moment.'

“Ideally you want to be in the squad first and then if you go there then you can’t perform at your top level if you take two games before that to play at half-speed.

“If you want to perform when the World Cup does come around then you have to be doing it before that and that’s my focus.”

Carter-Vickers: Two wins will set us up nicely for the break