“It begins with perception earlier than the sport – not in the course of the sport.”
Clement additionally pointed to Rangers’ 4-1 win away to Good within the Europa League final month.
“I do know their contracts and what they pay in transfers, so it’s a large distinction,” he mentioned. “Like I mentioned about Tottenham, it’s not solely about that.”
Clement has confronted Celtic 5 occasions as Rangers supervisor, shedding 4 occasions, with a 3-3 draw at Ibrox in April being the one exception.
“I feel we’ve got a extra energetic squad than we did final season,” he mentioned. “That is why selections had been made to rebuild the squad.
“You had final season a squad the place we had an older squad and had much less legs than the 12 months earlier than. We pushed out quite a bit final season and in the long run the legs had been moving into possibly the final couple of weeks.”
Clement thinks his squad has improved, particularly tactically, since their 3-0 September defeat at Celtic Park within the one earlier Previous Agency derby this season.
“Final 12 months, with much less vitality, we had been very shut and will have received the cup closing,” he urged, referencing Might’s 1-0 loss within the Scottish Cup. “The staff believes it’s making steps in each sense, so it’s about doing that once more on Sunday.”
Celtic have had two further days restoration time after Tuesday’s 0-0 draw away to Dinamo Zagreb within the Champions League.
“I’m not busy with that,” Clement mentioned whereas insisting it was too early to say whether or not in-form centre-half John Souttar would recuperate in time from the damage that pressured him off earlier than half-time towards Spurs.
“I’m simply busy on recovering quick and specializing in ourselves. It’s about restoration after which to select the suitable squad to get some recent legs within the staff.”
Clement was additionally not involved about current historical past favouring Celtic.
“Celtic are a staff who’re actually good on the ball with lots of high quality gamers,” he added.
“So we have to play a really mature sport, properly organised, however we have to play our soccer additionally and create our probabilities, like we’ve got been doing within the final couple of weeks.”