SCOTT Brown has dismissed claims that opposing teams had finally figured out how to play against Celtic as he called on his team mates to show a positive reaction to their first domestic defeat in 70 games.

The record-breaking 69 game unbeaten run which Brendan Rodgers’s side had been on came to a spectacular end on Sunday when they lost 4-0 to Hearts in a Ladbrokes Premiership match at Tynecastle.

Craig Levein, the Hearts manager, afterwards revealed he had urged his players to press their opponents high up the park after watching Anderlecht enjoy success with that tactic in a Champions League game the Belgians had won 1-0 at Parkhead the week before.

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But Brown insisted that Celtic can cope with rivals teams who play that way against them and admitted they will be looking to get back to winning ways when they take on Partick Thistle in a league game at home tomorrow.

“It is hard to take for everyone,” he said. “There is always a hurt when you get beaten, especially the way we got beaten. We did not perform well as individuals or as a team. There is always going to be hurt because the gaffer wants us to play his way, his philosophy, and we did not manage to do that.

“We don’t like not losing four goals and I think it is the first time we have not scored a goal in a league game since the manager came in and that was slightly disappointing as well.

“We have been defeated in the Champions League and stuff like that, so you always take a moment to reflect. You watch games back and understand where we went wrong and what we can do better.

“I don’t think we won our battles all over the park and we did not manage to keep the ball. We are a team based on possession and making chances and we did not do that well enough.

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“It is one game in 19 months since we have been on this fantastic record. There are a lot of teams who want to beat us and Hearts were the team who managed to do it. Fair play to them. On the day they deserved victory and they played to their strengths."

Brown added: “I think we will learn from it. Teams will expect they can press us high up the park and we won’t be able to cope with that.

“But we have a lot of different ways we can play, the gaffer understands that as well. He knows sometimes we need to get the ball up to Moussa (Dembele) and Griff (Leigh Griffiths) and play off them. We have that in the locker as well. We can build in different ways.

“We will continue to play the same way and go into the game on Wednesday and get back to the way we know we can play. But we need to bounce back now. Our game is in front of the home fans and we need to put on a show so they can enjoy the game.

“We have just got to try and go on now. We have got some huge games before the winter break. We need to make sure we bounce back well and get back to winning ways.”