Boss Mark Warburton revealed he was “irritated” by Rangers’ doom-mongers after his side stunned rivals Celtic with a penalty shoot-out win in a pulsating William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park.
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Already preparing for its return to the Scottish Premiership next season, victory for Rangers in a match that finished 2-2 after extra time means it now has a shot at a first major title since winning the top flight in 2011.
“I’m just delighted for the fans”. But Armstrong says the experience of taking on the Light Blues in the last-four crunch tie will be invaluable to him, especially considering the fact he has never even been to an Old Firm match, far less played in one.
Celtic started the second half on the front foot and draw level in the 50th minute following a series of corners, the latter of which was headed into the top corner by Danish defender Erik Sviatchenko.
Barry McKay swung the match Rangers way with a stunning 30-metre strike in the sixth minute of extra time, before Rogic scored Celtic’s second equaliser 10 minutes later hitting low and hard.
“Celtic were the favourites and I can understand this”, the Rangers manager said.
We think Limmy sums it up quite nicely……
Nine men aged between 18 and 56 were arrested at the game and will be reported to the procurator fiscal for “minor public order offences” such as breach of the peace, sectarian singing and pitch incursion, police said.
The defeat by a side a division below them heaps more pressure on under-fire Celtic manager Ronny Deila.
The level of support they’ve given us again was magnificent.
Rangers’ had led the Old Firm derby 1-0 at half-time with former Celt Kenny Miller opening the scoring after 16 minutes. “Now, the only thought is to lift ourselves and get the league title to Celtic Park”. “There will be down times, there will be bad days as well, so you have to make sure you are ready for them and try and recruit wisely, get the environment right and keep on pushing forward”. Nearly every game they have 70 per cent possession and we have 65 per cent so both teams are used to having the ball so we will see on Sunday who has control.
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“We can’t go into next season being satisfied with coming second, third or fourth or whatever it may be”.
