WE HAVE HIS BACK ...HE HAS OUR BACK

AUSTON TRUSTY is refusing to look for a Celtic fall guy as he issued a call to unite the club after a nightmare start to the Wilfried Nancy era.

- BY GRAEME YOUNG

Sunday's chastening 3-1 Premier Sports Cup defeat to St Mirren left Nancy with three losses in his first three games as Hoops manager.

But defender Trusty (above) wants to use the Hampden horror show as a catalyst to right the wrongs after also suffering defeat to leaders Hearts in the Premiership and Roma in the Europa League.

The centre-back said: “Very disappointing, absolutely, to lose a final and not lift the trophy. That's extremely upsetting.

“You don't want to let in a goal that early on, but it's a long game.

“We tie it up, the momentum shifts back to us and we're missing good chances and then, going into the second half, we're confident about that.

“It's just execution. We let in easy goals that we shouldn't have. That's how we got that result.

“The results haven't gone our way. This past week has been something to forget.

"To lose the first-place game, lose the Europa League game and then lose this game, it’s just been a tough week.

“We're all really good players and it's a really good team as well, we're all together.

“It just takes one little instance, one little moment, and then we're back together. Not that we're not together.