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Celtic deserve Premiership title, but Well want to beat them for our own targets, says boss

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Motherwell boss Graham Alexander says they're heading to Celtic Park tomorrow in search of a win to secure a fourth-placed Premiership finish, rather than to spoil the champions' title party.Alexander says Celtic are worthy champions and will present a predictably tough obstacle, but the Steelmen have their own targets and are looking to finish as high up the table as they can.A 2-1 Fir Park win over Hearts on Wednesday means the worst they'll drop to is fifth, with Europa Conference League football secured for next season.But which round they start in depends on whether they finish fourth or fifth, and Alexander has his sights fixed firmly on a win tomorrow.He said: "It's nothing to do with spoiling Celtic's title part, we want to try and keep fourth."Us going there to try and win a game is nothing to do with spoiling anyone else's party."Celtic deserved to win the league and they deserve to celebrate, regardless of what the result is tomorrow.

That's not on my agenda and it won't be on my players'. We're going there for our own reasons."Our season isn't over, we have to go and make sure we're concentrated and as focused as we have been, certainly in the last few weeks, to get the job done."We still have a job to do, we still want to try and get that fourth position."I know we've qualified for Europe, and regardless of whether we finish fourth or fifth, it's still a success, but being professional and ambitious people, we always want a little bit more."I think that's what keeps you driving along, it keeps that ambition burning strong, and we want to try and secure fourth.

I believe we'll have to take something from the game to do that."Alexander says finishing fourth isn't as big a leap financially as it would have

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