Net Gains

Jack Aitchison is on a rich vein of goalscoring form and is targeting more goals for the Development Squad in the remainder of the campaign

GOAL-HUNGRY Jack Aitchison took his prolific club form into international arena recently and it’s just increased his appetite to maintain his scoring streak over the closing weeks of the campaign.

The striker bagged three goals for Scotland Under-19s in their three UEFA European Championship elite round matches at the end of last month. And that came on the back of profitable second half of the season for the Development Squad in which the 18-year-old has found the net with regularity.

“I won’t be satisfied until the end of the season when I see what I’ve done,” he told the View in an exclusive interview. “In every game I go into, I want to score, try and get a win and help the team out in any way I can.

“Instead of staying out wide, I’m more central and on the end of crosses, whereas before I was putting in the crosses. Now I want to be in the six-yard box and on the end of things, and I think that’s what I’ve done.

“For club and club and country I’m on 24 goals so far – 16 for Celtic and eight for Scotland. I’ve got about nine or 10 games left to get four in to reach 20, but I’m hoping to get way more than that and bang in some goals before the end of the season.

“I’m working with the coaches every day and the sports scientists in the gym, and I’m just trying to get better each day to work myself into the first team,” he added. “Hopefully the gaffer sees that I’m working hard and putting that into games.”