The Gers defender knows that players have confidence in their ability and that they need to maintain them throughout the match against Celtic.
Speaking at today’s press conference, he said: “We can use it as motivation, but we also need to use our performance and our levels on the day as a platform.
“We know that we can outplay them at times, but we know that we are playing a good team and we have to perform to that level in every minute of the game to make sure that we come away with something.
“We had the belief before that game. I think that we have improved this season and that probably in my first game there away last season when we lost 1:0 was the only time that we haven’t gone toe to toe with them.
“I think that every game has been tight, obviously we have won some and we’ve lost some, but I’ve never felt like we’ve been completely outmatched or outplayed on a day that we’ve gone in to an Old Firm.”
As ever, the atmosphere will be noisy at the game on Sunday, but Connor says that the players are used to being in that kind of environment and know that the onus is on the team to start the game well.
He continued: “We’re all professional footballers, we’ve been in these atmospheres before, whether it is on a European stage or if it’s in an Old Firm away from home.
“We know what it’s like at home, we lost there earlier in the season and it can get nervy when you have the majority of the fans on your back or demanding more.
“We have to play on that and we have to use that in our advantage and if we can quieten the crowd and start well early on then it can work in our favour.
“You don’t want to give any encouragement and you want to start the game well and that’s what we will look to do.
“We need to be brave on the ball, but we need to be very good off the ball at the start of the game.
Goldson would face Celtic for the seventh time this weekend and he says that the players need no extra motivation to get up for the match.
He said: “The pressure is the same home or away. It’s an Old Firm game and we know what people expect of us and what we expect of ourselves.
“There will be massive motivation between ourselves before the game, but as a player, you don’t need that going in to this game because you know what job you need to be doing.
“You know what pressure is on your from within our changing room and from outside, so whether you are home or away the demand at this football club is to get three points and that’s what we are aiming to do.”