Watch: Rangers escape with one after an unseen Glasgow Derby incident

Celtic received the closing SPFL Glasgow Derby of the season to efficiently wrap up the title. Extending their lead at the top to six points with simply two video games remaining.

On the day, Celtic had been the better team and in spite of a ten man Rangers aspect attempting to purpose chaos with lengthy balls into the field for the closing 15 minutes of the game, the bhoys stood up nicely to see out the game.

Soccer Football – Scottish Premiership – Celtic v Rangers – Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain – May 11, 2024 Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers during the match Action Images via Reuters/Ed Sykes

People’s speakme factors have been some place else this weekend whether or not it be John Lundstrum’s deserved pink card or Matt O’Riley’s first-rate opener before a dismal penalty. However, an incident has come to mild in the aftermath that we can’t believe wasn’t picked up by way of VAR.

Rangers participant Mohamed Diomande poleaxed Reo Hatate within the first ten minutes of the sport which looked an intentional elbow to the head whilst stopping Reo’s progress.

Have a appear for yourself.

That’s an intentional elbow with force at the side of Hatate’s head.

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— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) May 13, 2024

It’s a clear oversight from Stevie McLean on VAR who absolutely shouldn’t have highlighted the incident to referee Willie Collum. it wasn’t talked about on Sportscene nor mentioned in Sky Sports post-match.

There’s an argument for a pink card there and then however Diomande didn’t even get a yellow. Thankfully it didn’t have a profound have an effect on on the game.

It speaks to our rivals just not being capable to stay with us.

“Would be”: Pat Bonner and Michael Stewart identify the lone Rangers player who would be able to join Celtic

The fallout of any Glasgow Derby usually comes to the inevitable conversation. Who has the higher players? Celtic or Rangers?

Now, the league desk at the end of the season always gives you the definitive reply because whoever finishes top of the Scottish Premiership generally has the higher gamers and the fine team.

But this season has saw the pendulum swing for many specific motives as Rangers went pinnacle for about ten days in March.

However, before Celtic’s game against Rangers, there used to be a debate on BBC Sportsound as to which players from Philippe Clement’s crew would get in Rodgers’ side and Pat Bonner and Michael Stewart named simply one.

Jack Butland is exact enough for Celtic

Looking at the areas of the Celtic group that require strengthening in the summer, the fans would all agree that left-back, central defence, the wingers and a new striker is required.

Maybe even a central midfielder too. So when the discussion took off about Rangers gamers and Celtic, Stewart and Bonner picked simply one Ibrox man who would make a difference in Rodgers’ side.

Stewart said [BBC Radio Scotland], “Potentially, and the cause I used to be putting one up was once the goalie [Jack Butland].

“He’s a potential.”

Former Celtic hero, Bonner, agreed and at the same time as he regarded that there are deficiences in Rodgers’ side, only Butland made his list.

Bonner: “Celtic’s, maybe, again line, every now and then you may ask because Hearts created possibilities remaining week however they’re all decent players.

“Joe Hart’s had a correct season. Listen guys, Jack Butland, likely if you had been after a goalkeeper proper now to replace Joe Hart and he was available, he would be one that you would take.”

I have to agree with both. Butland is a very good ‘keeper and had it no longer been for his heroics yesterday, Celtic could have been 5-1 up and cruising to the title.

The Ibrox membership will have a hard job preserving a preserve of Butland this summer. It’s just unfortunate that because of the place the England worldwide is right now, Celtic have no hope of capturing his signature any time soon.

What Fabio Silva performed prior to Rangers star Matt O’Riley’s Celtic penalty miss is known as the player’s “mind game.”

The Danish worldwide would see his effort saved from the spot after a lengthy VAR check.

Rangers star Fabio Silva has been noticed deploying “mind games” before Matt O’Riley ignored from the penalty spot for Celtic.

The Scottish Premiership leaders were already 2-1 up when the Danish international went down in the container following a task from Mohamed Diomande – which saw referee Willie Collum factor to the penalty spot. However, the whistler would be despatched to the pitch-side reveal to evaluate the incident through the VAR room – main to a prolonged extend in play.

During the ruin in the game, Wolves loanee Silva was spotted through Sky Sports cameras taking walks over to O’Riley and sharing a brief exchange. Silva protected his mouth in the course of the dialog – which firstly noticed the Celtic star smirk before the discussion persevered while O’Riley held the ball. The Hoops’ goalscorer would finally shrug and move away from the Rangers forward – earlier than Collum finally stuck with his original decision.

O’Riley would see his effort from the spot saved by using Jack Butland – however in the stop Brendan Rodgers’ guys held on for the imperative three factors in opposition to the 10-man Light Blues to move six factors clear at the top. Following his ignored kick from 12 yards, Chris Sutton used to be rapid to factor out the tactics deployed at some stage in the prolonged test from Clydesdale House.

He said on Sky Sports commentary: “It’s a vulnerable penalty, but it’s thinking video games throughout a lengthy wait for Matt O’Riley. A little stutter and Butland goes the right way.”

After the game, O’Riley brushed off questions about the thinking video games from the Rangers gamers before his miss in the course of the VAR check waiting sport – with Butland additionally appearing to speak to the Danish international before he struck the ball. He said: “I don’t recognize if VAR tried to overturn it however I thinking it was once pretty strange. There are no excuses when you leave out a penalty. But of course it’s quite a long wait.”

“Absolute disgrace”—the media blast Rangers for only managing 16 passes against Celtic—calling them “woeful”

He persisted a torrid afternoon in the Old Firm derby.

Rangers fans and media individuals have wasted no time in laying into one of their stars after their risk of winning the Scottish Premiership title took possibly its final blow on Saturday afternoon.

Celtic on the verge of the title

Heading into their clash with Rangers on Saturday, Celtic knew that must they avoid defeat they would have one hand on the Scottish Premiership.

Their 2-1 victory in the cutting-edge Old Firm derby has left them on the verge of success though. While not but mathematically proven as Champions, they lead Rangers with the aid of six factors with two games left to go, whilst they also boost a seven greatest goal distinction than their title rivals, which means that they would want to lose each of their ultimate games and see Rangers win closely to stand a threat of reversing the top two in the division.

It will see Brendan Rodgers complete a title win that at instances this season has looked unlikely, but a poor spell of shape from Rangers has effectively surpassed the trophy on a plate to their rivals, and this recreation persisted on that theme.

A fiesty encounter, the game became on one moment, and Rangers followers and pundits wasted no time making sure they made their feelings known.

Lundstram branded a “disgrace” vs Celtic

Rangers podcasters and media participants have taken to Twitter/X in their droves to purpose their ire at midfielder John Lundstram, who persisted a torrid afternoon at Celtic Park. The ex-Sheffield United midfielder put the ball into his personal net seven minutes before half-time to see his aspect fall 2-0 down to their Glasgow rivals, though an effort from Cyriel Dessers pulled them lower back into proceedings.

But that risk disappeared on the stroke of half of time courtesy of Lundstram, who used to be given his marching orders in first-half stoppage time for a terrible venture on Celtic’s Alistair Johnston, which VAR successfully deemed a purple card challenge.

It capped an lousy game for Lundstram, who managed just 16 passes in midfield, lost possession seven instances and won just three of his 10 duels. Rangers podcast Heart and Hand labelled him an “absolute disgrace”, while he used to be branded “absolutely woeful” by 4 Lads Had a Dream

The midfielder is out of contract this summer, and Philippe Clement admitted closing week that the chances of him penning a new deal are increasingly slim.

“There is nothing legitimate round that. I am now not naïve, the longer that things final the greater possibility that different people step in. But for the moment curiously the water is too deep between the two sides,” he explained.

Having picked up a straight pink card, he will now be suspended for the the rest of Rangers’ games this campaign, which potential he ought to properly have performed his ultimate recreation for the Ibrox outfit. Based on the reaction to his performance today, there will be few Rangers fans complaining.

That’s just not you, Kris Boyd says as Aaron Rodgers plays to the Celtic gallery

Sky pundit Boyd has been unimpressed by some of Rodgers’ feedback because returning to the Parkhead hotseat

Kris Boyd has accused Brendan Rodgers of playing to the galleries this season as he told the Celtic boss: ‘That’s simply not you’.

Serial trophy-winner Rodgers can put one hand on the Premiership title if he masterminds any other Old Firm win at Parkhead on Saturday. But Rangers legend Boyd has been unimpressed through the Northern Irishman’s behavior in the course of his 2d stint in Glasgow and claims Rodgers has been desperately trying to appease the fans who in no way desired him returned in the first place.

Without referencing any particular comments, Boyd reckons Rodgers “changed his tune” when Philippe Clement overturned a seven-point deficit and moved Gers into the driving seat in the title race. And while Rodgers now has Celts on the brink of three-in-a-row, Boyd believes the 51-year-old has proven a extraordinary aspect to him. By the same token, Boyd says he is additionally been left baffled with the aid of Ibrox gaffer Clement’s reaction to his dugout rival’s remarks about “having some fun” in this weekend’s powderkeg derby.

The Sky pundit told the Scottish Sun: “We have viewed two facets to each Old Firm managers in this title run in. In his first spell as Celtic boss, Brendan Rodgers was certainly a type act. But this season he’s been playing to the galleries a long way too an awful lot for my liking. We’ve also seen Philippe Clement exhibit symptoms that he’s feeling the warmth for the first time. Now we’ll see which boss handles the pressure at Celtic Park — and receives their hands on the Premiership title in the coming days.

“Rodgers had a diploma of class about him with the way he performed himself remaining time. He used to be in no way one to gloat. He’d by no means rub anybody’s nostril in it when he gained a recreation or lifted a trophy either. But with the stress on? The Parkhead boss has been simply determined to inform the club’s supporters what they favor to hear.

“He’s going to get away with it, too. Barring a very dramatic collapse, Celtic will be champions this season, and Rodgers will be lifting that Premiership trophy for a 1/3 time. The followers he wanted to appease will stand and applaud. But I’ve listened to things Rodgers has said and concept to myself numerous times, ‘That’s just no longer you’.

“He wasn’t like that when he first came back. Rodgers was courageous adequate to say he didn’t have any regrets over the way he left Glasgow for Leicester in 2019. But when fans commenced to ask questions about results and performances, he changed his tune. When Rangers clawed their way lower back into the title race, he showed a different facet to him.

“Rodgers tried to create the narrative that Celtic weren’t getting almost ample credit score from the press and pundits alike. Some supporters offered it — but the smarter ones should see it for what it was. Rodgers mostly succeeded in currying favour with the fans who refused to welcome him lower back to the club with open arms, though.

“It’s been a shame to see him behave that way but strain does exceptional things to different people. Clement didn’t put a foot incorrect when Rangers had been winning. But the defeat to Ross County and draw with Dundee added weird feedback from him which raised eyebrows too.

“OK, he didn’t favor to throw any of his gamers underneath the bus, I get that. But in the cold light of day the Belgian must recognize what he stated was wrong and didn’t cowl him in any glory. The way Clement reacted to Rodgers’ remarks about “having some fun” in today’s Old Firm derby was once additionally alarming for me.

“I can apprehend why he used to be irked. But managers occasionally want to take the ethical excessive ground and absolutely bypass tries to rile them. For me, that’s what Rodgers used to be doing final week. You can now see what’s going to happen. Whoever comes out on top at Celtic Park this lunchtime will talk about how it used to be all just a bit of fun. I didn’t suppose Clement appeared too wise over-reacting in the way he did. The remarks from Rodgers and the Gers boss are simply tit-for-tat, though.”

Ibrox icon wants Celtic captain’sorted out’ in Glasgow Derby

With the Glasgow Derby approaching, the fear is creeping into the Ibrox camp.

Stuart McCall has given Rangers a approach to strive to neutralise Celtic, and has advised Phillipe Clement who will ‘sort out’ Celtic captain Callum McGregor, who generally runs the show.

McGregor, who is nonetheless discovering his way back to peak circumstance after an damage in March, has been regularly increasing his playtime, managing full-size minutes in recent video games against Dundee and Hearts. He fantastically much played a full ninety minutes in opposition to Hearts at the weekend and regarded returned to his very best.

Stuart McCall highlighted the significance of addressing McGregor’s function effectively. . “If, like humans have been saying, McGregor was returned to his satisfactory for Celtic and pulling the strings, I’d like to see anyone go and sort him out and, for me, Sterling can do that,” McCall stated. [SunSport]

They’re of course scared of the threat McGregor poses, particularly given how he ran the exhibit in the final Glasgow Derby at Parkhead, but what does McColl suggest via ‘sort him out’? It’s a phrase that ought to without difficulty be interpreted in a few ways,  and perchance have connotations of violence. I genuinely hope that wasn’t what McCall used to be trying for.