Craig Gordon: Teamwork the key to solving Celtic's defensive issues
Craig Gordon insists Celtic need to revert back from "every man for themselves'' to working as a team.
Hoops boss Brendan Rodgers was distressed by the loss of another avoidable goal in the 1-1 draw against Suduva on Thursday night after taking an early lead in the first leg of their Europa League play-off through French midfielder Olivier Ntcham.
The Northern Irishman had lamented the defending in the 2-1 defeat against AEK Athens in Greece last week which saw Celtic exit the Champions League in the third-qualifying round.
And his exasperation was compounded in the 13th minute in Lithuania when Ovidijus Verbickas ghosted into the box to head in a free-kick from Vaidas Slavickas.
Rodgers spoke of a lack of pride in Celtic's defending and while the Scottish champions are likely to finish off the tie in Glasgow next Thursday, Gordon stressed the importance of his side returning to the form of the last two seasons which saw them win unprecedented back-to-back domestic trebles.
"I think that everybody is every man for themselves in there,'' the goalkeeper told Press Association Sport.
"We need to get back to working as a team and make sure that nobody gets the headers in that they have been doing.
"We have to put a stop to that, we will put a stop to that. I am very confident that we will get it right and get it right very quickly.
"We have been very good at that in recent seasons.
"We have been going on with 50 per cent clean sheets which is an incredible record.
"To go from that to losing goals the way we are - we need to put that right.
"But we have done it in the past. We know what we are doing wrong and we have to fix it.
"We will sort it out and do it quickly and get back to keeping clean sheets which we have been doing in the past few seasons.''
Despite the ongoing anxiety around Celtic's defending, Gordon is confident of reaching the group stages of the Europa league in front of their own fans next Thursday night.
He said: "We are ahead in the tie but we would like to be further ahead.
"We got the away goal and we will take that and look to finish the job next week.'