Hearts boss Csaba Laszlo has started the mind games ahead of Sunday's Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash at Celtic by claiming all the pressure is on Tony Mowbray's men.

The Hoops have made an unbeaten start to the SPL season but a late capitulation saw them lose Thursday night's Europa League opener at Hapoel Tel-Aviv and the defeat was regarded as something of a shock - but Laszlo was also unimpressed by Celtic's two previous performances against Hibernian and Dundee United.

He said: "If you also saw in the league, they were not so fantastic. They won 1-0 against Hibs away, then 1-1 against Dundee United, now they lose 2-1. You don't ever know what is inside in the team but now maybe it's a chance for us also to have success."

He added: "If you go to Celtic Park I think, for every Scottish team, it is something special.

"You play against a team which is one of the biggest in the country and you maybe don't have this pressure. Here, Celtic have the pressure."

Laszlo has yet to taste defeat at Parkhead since becoming Hearts boss just over a year ago, drawing 0-0 and 1-1 last season.

He said: "Especially in the last games at Celtic Park, we definitely played good football. Also successful - 0-0, 1-1 - this is okay."

Laszlo will look to exploit any tiredness in the Celtic ranks after their players arrived back from Tel Aviv at around 4am on Friday, but the Jambos boss reckons Mowbray has a strong enough squad to cope with any fatigue and also fears a backlash from Thursday's result.

He said: "Celtic have a big squad and they have a good squad. They have players also who can come from the bench and can make big trouble for every team.

"For me at this stage, it's better if Celtic won in Israel - maybe they'd take this game more easy. Now they've lost against maybe on paper the weakest team in the group."