RYAN Christie last night insisted Celtic have plenty of time to catch Premiership leaders Rangers and complete 10-In-A-Row – but confessed the Parkhead club need to hit top form quickly.

Christie and his team mates were held to a 2-2 draw by Hibernian at Easter Road on Saturday to hand their city rivals the chance to pull further ahead at the top of the league table.

Steven Gerrard’s team, who have played two games more than the defending champions, moved 11 points clear of the defending champions after beating Aberdeen at Ibrox yesterday.

However, Christie is adamant there is no need for Celtic, who are bidding to become the first team ever to win 10 consecutive Scottish titles in the 2020/21 campaign, to panic.

“At a club like Celtic, everyone knows we are trying to win every game and if you do that it takes the pressure off yourself and puts it on other people,” he said.

“We know there’s still plenty of time to go in this league and that we’ve got it within ourselves to go on a run.

“Even on Saturday, at 2-0 down you are thinking ‘how has this happened’. You’re thinking ‘we’re playing very well’. All we need is that run of games to get the confidence back up and maybe a few clean sheets at the other end.

“We know we’re still a very good team and can put together a few good runs that will take the pressure off of us. But we need to do that sooner rather than later.”

Lennon’s men fell 2-0 behind in the second-half at Easter Road, but earned a point thanks to an Odsonne Edouard penalty and an injury-time Diego Laxalt equaliser.

Christie argued that late recovery showed the strong mentality in the Celtic squad and predicted they will be fine if they can stop conceding careless goals at the back.

“We are always going to keep fighting,” he said. “We’ve got that about us in the changing room. I think more than anything, at 2-0 down, it was just the complete shock of it. But we knew we needed to get something out of the game because we deserved it. We deserved at least a point.

“The goal from us was inevitable, because we kept fighting. If the game had had an extra five minutes I think we would have gone on and won it. But we shot ourselves in the foot – it was frustrating to find ourselves 2-0 down and having to claw our way back into it.

“We went in at half-time feeling very positive. On a different day it could have been 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time. But when we are playing that well and creating chances, we just need to make sure we are switched on at the other side so that teams can’t punish our mistakes.

“If we are not scoring, then we are definitely not conceding at the other end. We have to keep the door at the other end shut. It is something we need to work on – stop the errors at the other end.”