Cup win with Inverness was 'amazing' says Ryan Christie

Celtic midfielder Ryan Christie admits it took him a while to appreciate the magnitude of his William Hill Scottish Cup triumph with Inverness.

Christie is looking to win the trophy for a second season and Celtic face a quarter-final against Morton at Parkhead.

But his first success is still sinking in for the 21-year-old, more than nine months after Caley Thistle's final win against Falkirk.

Christie, who scored the only goal in an under-20s victory over Rangers on Thursday, told Celtic's match day programme: Last year was brilliant. At a team like Inverness you never think something like that is going to happen and it wasn't until the semi-final against Celtic that we managed to win - which is a bit weird now - and thought we could actually go on and win the full thing. We managed to do that and it was pretty amazing.

The significance of that didn't sink in at the time. A lot of the boys said after the game about it being Inverness's first time lifting the trophy, but it wasn't until we came back after the summer that we realised how big it was.

Winning the cup so early in my career was great and getting the SFWA young player of the year award capped off a great season.

I had no experience of anything else, so after the cup I just thought that it was a good season, but looking back now it's pretty incredible what we managed to achieve as a team and how lucky I was to be a part of it.''

Christie shone during that semi-final triumph against his current employers, but he is comfortable with the role reversal to being part of a side considered huge favourites for Sunday's cup tie against the Championship team.

These are the games you have to play in the cup and some people say these games are the most important because upsets are what lower league teams want,'' Christie said.

It's easy to get fired up if you're playing a bigger team, but it's now us against Morton at home so everyone needs to be on top form.

I'm getting used to the idea now of never being an underdog. I've been part of the squad a few times now and I can feel the 'win every game' attitude that exists here. That's something I wasn't used to last year but I'm getting used to it now.

That's one of the challenges of playing for Celtic - to be able to deal with that pressure from the fans and everyone wanting and expecting you to win every game.''