Captain Sean Welsh has advised his Inverness team-mates they should imagine they will pull off “a miracle” in what would be the largest sport of his profession this Saturday.
The cinch Championship facet are large underdogs for his or her Scottish Cup remaining showdown with Celtic, who’re bidding to finish a home treble.
Welsh is aware of it would take an enormous effort to tug off an upset at Hampden however the 33-year-old is adamant his group have an opportunity.
“It ranks on the very high for me,” mentioned the previous Partick Thistle and Falkirk midfielder when requested concerning the measurement of the sport within the context of his profession.
“It’s not fairly often you get to play on an event like this, particularly at my age attending to the latter levels of my profession. I’m completely trying ahead to it.
“We’ve obtained to imagine, I’ve mentioned that to the lads all week. We’ve obtained to imagine we are able to pull off a miracle.
“We don’t simply wish to go there for a day trip and get caught up within the event.
“We all know it’s an enormous problem in entrance of us, however we’ve obtained to have perception in ourselves.
“We all know we’ve got group and we all know we’re going to be up in opposition to it at occasions within the sport however we’ve obtained to stay collectively and have that perception that we are able to do it.”
Celtic gained solely two of their closing six Premiership matches as they’d the title wrapped up with time to spare, however Welsh dismissed any notion that his group can draw encouragement from the champions’ latest type dip.
“I don’t assume you may look an excessive amount of into that,” he added.
“They wrapped up the title early doorways after which had a number of outcomes they most likely weren’t proud of however you noticed on the weekend (once they beat Aberdeen 5-0) they will flip it on when they should. I’m certain they’ll be proper up for this.
“It’s not going to make a lot distinction to us, we all know how onerous the problem goes to be.”
Inverness may have gone greater than 4 weeks and not using a aggressive sport by the point they run out at Hampden on Saturday.
Though Welsh admits it’s “not perfect” when it comes to sustaining match sharpness, he feels the month-long break has at the least allowed them to banish any lingering disappointment after they misplaced to Ayr of their remaining Championship fixture and missed out on the play-offs.
“It was good to get a while to recover from what occurred within the final sport of the season,” he mentioned.
“That was a troublesome evening and we have been all very disillusioned to overlook out on the play-offs so the time away was good for us to clear our minds and recover from it.
“We didn’t need that lingering going into this huge sport.
“We’ve come again in refreshed and excited and we’re trying ahead to it.”
