Rangers, the record 54-time victor of the top flight, has already secured promotion to the Premiership by winning the Championship.
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And, ignoring the comments from his Celtic counterpart, Warburton has put the weight of expectation on the Scottish champions.To have a serious chance of causing an upset, the evidence suggests that Rangers will need to score the first goal and quite likely two.
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.
The Hoops suffered their third straight Hampden semi-final defeat on Sunday when Rangers stunned the Parkhead outfit with their penalty shoot-out triumph in the William Hill Scottish Cup.
Ronny Deila is unlikely to remain at Celtic beyond the end of the season after their shock loss to rivals Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final, according to Pat Bonner.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila will struggle to hold on to his job after the Scottish Cup defeat to Rangers, according to Pat Bonner. 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.
“We have a duty to go to Hibs and deliver a performance in front of a packed away support”. “There will be teams that will get two full houses if Rangers come up but we do anyway so it makes no difference to us”, Neilson said.
It is understood the Parkhead club will focus on retaining the Premiership title with Deila in charge.
“The reaction of the fans just showed how happy they were and it was a really joyous occasion”.
It was an incredible blunder from the £12million former Fulham youngster, and let Gers off the hook at a crucial point in the pulsating Old Firm clash, which the Ibrox men went on to win on penalties following a 2-2 draw.
“Clearly Celtic’s best player”, said Bonner.
“Our message before the game was do what you’ve done all season just do it better against the number one team in the country and I think we did that today”.
While Celtic have a doubt over the fitness of defender Erik Sviatchenko, Rangers will be hampered by several significant absentees.
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“I thought we fully deserved the victory”. It would be a real, real bonus if we could accelerate the European part of it by a season but we’ve still got to win the cup final to do that.
