LEE Wallace hopes the hurt of Rangers’ 5-1 Old Firm mauling at Celtic Park will prove powerful motivation to ensure that the Ibrox side never experience the same sensation again.
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Rodgers’ men now sit top of the table, despite having played a game less than Rangers, having taken maximum points from their first three matches of the season.
“If we go there and we’re courageous and we get on the football and we move it quickly and do what we do well, we will be fine”.
“We’re very lucky to have him here, and he’s been clear that he wanted to come to a club – a winning club – that can develop him”.
Rodgers, after his first Old Firm match, admitted the occasion was “everything I expected and more” and praised 20-year-old Dembele who has had to play second fiddle to Griffiths in recent weeks.
‘I don’t see a major gulf. They absolutely have the bragging rights and deserved to win.
Barton, who finished the game at centre half following the Senderos sending off and an injury to Rob Kiernan, was quick to shake hands with the Celtic players after the final whistle, including Brown who taken off as a precaution after picking up a knock. Our manager just now will certainly share the belief that we want to do it a lot sooner than that.
“I’m a born-and-bred Evertonian, I’ve not met any true football fan who supports two teams”.
“It’s game five of a long season”, he insisted.
“We know what will be said in the aftermath of a result like this”.
“That would suggest that we doubted the quality of the players”, he said.
He opened the scoring with a header in the 34th minute before firing home a fine solo finish to double Celtic’s advantage eight minutes later. Celtic were beaten 6-1 on their last visit to the Nou Camp in December 2013, but Dembele believes they can get something this time.
“The frustration for us came, at that point, at 3-1 down with an uphill struggle, we felt Barrie McKay was taken out by a player on a yellow card”. Three minutes later referee Willie Collum was forced to do more pointing tunnel-wards after Rangers assistant David Weir was too aggressive in protests to fourth official Kevin Clancy.
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Rangers goalscorer Joe Garner with Joey Barton. “When you start a game of football, even if it’s against the best team in the world, you have to go there and show what we can do and give everything to try and get a result”.
