Celtic and manager Ange Postecoglou are closing in on the Scottish Premiership after Jota put them ahead 1-0 in the Old Firm derby.
With four rounds of the season remaining, first-placed Celtic is six points clear of Rangers, and also have a 19-goal advantage in the for and against tally. Despite dominating play in the opening half and creating numerous opportunities, Celtic failed to add to its tally, taking a 1-0 lead into the break. Celtic and manager Ange Postecoglou are closing in on the Scottish Premiership after Jota put them ahead 1-0 in the Old Firm derby.
It's the last derby of the season and could see Celtic effectively seal the title unless Rangers can get a win.
It's going to be a tight game and what happens in the last part is going to be crucial. This is what the manager has preached all season. They have to get their emotions under control, make sure that they play their game, This is going to be the case today. You've got everything to lose on derby day! That's what I did today but still, it's a very strong team. It's a title race and we;ve talked about how Celtic have to handle that. We've got another strong bench today and gut feeling is we're going to need them. Celtic have tried to press high but the visitors have dealt with it well and are enjoying the bulk of possession. Rangers look to have had the stuffing knocked out of them by the goal and it's the hosts who are in the ascendecy and look more likely to add to their lead than Rangers do to equalising right now. Jota is sharpest at the back post and gets across Borna Barisic - who not for the first time is caught sleeping in that area of the pitch at this ground - to fire home from close range. Better from Rangers after the break and a warning to Celtic that they're still in this game. A cross to the back post gives Maeda a huge chance for 2-0.
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And the defeat, in the Europa League, was to Leipzig, last Thursday (28), with a goal by Angeliño. Celtic are coming from three matches where they were defeated once and won the other. Both are distant from their opponents, as the third-placed team has 61 points, which is Hearts. We have fewer teams at this stage of the competition and, consequently, fewer games. Rangers had a double substitution, where Davis and Aribo left to enter Jack and Wright. The match is tied!
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Rangers got the better of their neighbours in the cup last time out, but Celtic won the league tie at Ibrox at the start of April and can effectively seal the Scottish Premiership title with a win today. John Terry is in the stands wearing a Celtic scarf, and Rod Stewart is there too. 9 min: Kyogo Furuhashi clips Lundstram as the Rangers man looks to sweep a ball out to the right. Do Rangers have Reason To Believe, or is Tonight The Night for a Celtic party? Kent is cutting in from the left to meet his cross and gets there in front of Ralston, but his volleyed effort is clipped a yard wide. The referee keeps his cards in his pocket. The latter scampers clear but is hampered by Barisic, whose charging run forward is ill-judged. Lundstram and Davis are bossing midfield at the moment - the former wins the ball, the latter finds Arfield on the right. Maeda drifts inside from the left to find … yards of space. A little better from Rangers that – you got the sense they were beginning to run out of ideas. And the visitors had probably edged the opening quarter. Maeda should nod home but has one eye on the Rangers goalkeeper and timidly glances wide from close range.
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Then he gets in a great position for a header but gets it all wrong and it's high and wide of the target. And that goal was straight out the manual, as Maeda finds a pocket of space and his perfect ball picks out his team-mate. It's a copy-and-paste of Abada's goal in February and it's the same Rangers man at fault. He nearly does it again when Celtic win a throw and and Jota drifts over to the byline, not offside as per the laws of the game regarding throw-ins. He finds pockets of space and his wicked ball to pick out Jota could well have resulted in the second goal. But the Swede is able to recover easily and wins a goal-kick off the Zambian. And this one WOULD have counted as Jota delivers a delicious ball to Maeda with the outside of his boot. But he whipped his phone out to film it as the 60,000-strong home crowd made a racket ahead of the huge derby clash. The first of the game and it's for Ralston who took a poor touch and then left a sore one on Arfield. Hatate, has plenty of class, but he also has a knack of coiughing up the ball at inopportine occasions. He hits it from the edge of the box but the ball is bouncing high and that's reflected in the shot which floats harmlessly over the bar. He and the rest of that backroom are so close to winning it back now.
Celtic take on Rangers today in a match that could decide the Scottish Premiership title race.
Ange Postecoglou’s main selection dilemma centres around who starts up front. Celtic have edged the league head-to-heads having won the last two fixtures, coming from behind to claim a 2-1 win at Ibrox last month after a 3-0 win at Celtic Park in February, while Rangers edged the first encounter of the season 1-0 at Ibrox in August. While Rangers need to win to keep their feint title hopes alive, the fixture comes amidst a Europa League Cup semi-final, just three days after a 1-0 defeat to RB Leipzig in the first leg in Germany ahead of the second leg at Ibrox this coming Thursday.
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Comes out to Davis on the edge of the box and he can’t control the shot. Blasts the shot over the bar. Headed over the bar, never troubling Hart. This time the Rangers man doesn’t really make any contact at all. With just over 20 minutes played, it was Celtic who took the lead. Tavernier whips the cross in, Starfelt there once again to head it away.
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“They have an advantage of six points, so we have to try to get a good result to keep the belief that we can win the league. “Of course, it’s not in the balance the way we are in the league. “We want to put them on the back foot and capitalise on those moments where we have the advantage. - Alternatively, you can keep up to date with all of the latest action withSunSport's LIVE blog. - The match is also available to stream on the Sky Go app. - You can watch the game live on Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports Main Event with coverage starting at 11am.
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"Three games to go, we're in a good spot. I couldn't ask for more, especially in the second half. Ultimately, it was a good contest between two good teams. The Govan men worked their way back into the game but Celtic should have added to their lead, unmarked Furuhashi hooking a shot over the bar from a cross from Maeda, who then headed past the post with only McGregor to beat. Aribo 6, Kent 7, Sakala 7 Then Furuhashi knocked a shot over the bar from a Maeda cross before Maeda headed a cross from Matt O'Riley past the post.
Surprisingly, today's Old Firm went by without too many major incidents and John Beaton comes out of it unscathed.
You can enter once each week to be in with a chance of winning. Do they let them go early on, or do they get the cards out early and potentially create a rod for their own back? It then became 3-3 in the cards department when Amad Diallo brought down the onrushing Liel Abada after just entering the fray. For your chance to win HOME tickets to Cinch SPFL matches each week across ALL FOUR divisions just enter our competition below. Often in this fixture, refs can be caught between a rock and a hard place early on when dealing with meaty tackles. There were a few fouls in the opening stages but nothing to warrant any cards coming out of the pocket.
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From there, the Zambian got a yard on his man and drilled a fearsome drive beyond Hart and into the back of the net. From deep on the right, Tavernier delivered an outstanding ball into the box, and beating Cameron Carter-Vickers to it was Kent to flick an effort goalwards, but unfortunately for Gers, it slipped just wide. A beautiful one touch passing move took Kent and Fashion Jr to the edge of the box, and Kent got it out his feet to put Fashion Jr in to his left for the shot. Fashion Jr then went one-on-one with Hart, and from the angle, he beat the goalkeeper, but agonisingly the ball came back off the inside of the post and somehow the home side survived. Fashion Jr then headed a further Tavernier corner over at the back post, with the visitors well in in control at the start of the second half. At the start of the second half, Carter-Vickers sliced a Barisic cross only just wide for a corner, and from the resulting corner, Gers could have been level.
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The Govan men worked their way back into the game but Celtic should have added to their lead. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The Celtic keeper perhaps should have done better but he then tipped a powerful drive from the Zambia international over the bar, with Sakala then heading the subsequent corner over. Unmarked Furuhashi, from an offside move, hooked a shot over the bar from a cross from Maeda, who then headed past the post with only McGregor to beat. In the 12th minute Ryan Kent volleyed a cross from captain James Tavernier past the post from 12 yards when he should have at least tested Hoops keeper Joe Hart, who then had to deal with a decent long-range drive from the attacker. Striker Fashion Sakala levelled in the 68th minute with a powerful drive but the draw keeps Rangers six points behind the Hoops with only three fixtures remaining - and with Celtic having a superior goal difference of 19 it would take a notable and unlikely turnaround to keep the title at Ibrox.
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Scott Arfield (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. - Shots - 14Turnbull - 11Abada - 7Giakoumakis - 6Bitton - 42McGregor - 3Taylor - 4Starfelt - 20Carter-Vickers - 15Hart Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou: "It was pretty intense, as you'd expect with so much on the line.
The former England Captain was seen with a Hoops scarf and singing You'll Never Walk Alone.
You can enter once each week to be in with a chance of winning. For your chance to win HOME tickets to Cinch SPFL matches each week across ALL FOUR divisions just enter our competition below. The Chelsea legend has admitted to be being a Hoops fan in the past but today was the first time he made it north to take in a match.