Ally Robertson: Magic Mikey Johnston's a wonderful watch for West Brom, even for a Celtic lad!

It’s painful for me to cheer on a Celtic lad – but if he’s scoring goals for us and we’re winning, that’s okay!

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What a signing Mikey Johnston has been for the Albion. Carlos Corberan’s decision to make him his primary loan target has worked wonders so far.

His ability has been there for all to see since he came through the door. He is not afraid to shoot and most of them have been flying in – some of those goals have been wonderful.

The thing that is quite nice is when attackers are playing with a team-mate who is trying things and they are coming off, it drags others up and inspires confidence in others, too.

His arrival in January changed the whole dynamic of the attacking line-up and, for me, changed the attitude of our side.

We’ve been lucky to get him and wouldn’t it be great if we could keep him? That’ll be the next thing come the end of the season! I wouldn’t mind watching Mikey for another couple of seasons yet.

To be honest I’d heard a few people say he was okay but not the greatest at Celtic, but I’ve said to a couple of lads I know up in Scotland that he has just been fantastic for us.

The biggest thing people would say up there is that he played well one game but not the next, it’s about going again and again, which he is doing here. But everywhere is different and clearly Celtic brings its own pressure.

We’ve done a good job of late in getting wins against sides lower down and maintaining the gap to the chasing pack below us.

The gap is eight points at the moment and yes some rivals have a game in hand but even with a five-point gap we can afford to slip up and be okay.

We still have Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham and Stoke to play, sides struggling further down near the bottom, those are the games where we can collect maximum points.

Things can change – look at Leicester and how that’s gone at the top – this league can be crazy. But as long as we can continue the form where we’ve lost just once in 10 games we will do well.

Eight games left, four home and four away – we can win all of those home games and I would back us to do that. Leicester away later on might be tough but we’re doing fine against the better sides too.

I’ve seen talk about the quality of games and how well we are or aren’t playing. Last week against Bristol City the first half wasn’t good at all, the first half was very quiet, but then we go and win it easily.

There have been games where we’ve started slowly and improved and I think a lot of people want or expect us to play great football all the way through, which would be great, but as long as we’re winning that is the most important thing.

There have been spells where we’ve played really well and we look brilliant, unplayable for some teams at this level, Johnston has helped make those things happen for us.

Tom Fellows has been absolutely brilliant for us too, what a cracking little player. When he’s on the ball he makes things happen. When we don’t look to make things happen we don’t play as well.

Carlos has been very clever at times in games with how he makes smart substitutions or small tactical changes that change our whole style of attack, those tweaks have been very telling for us.

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