The Bhoys lost their crucial Scottish Cup semi-final with Rangers on penalties, after an enthralling back-and-forth encounter at Hampden Park. You should expect them to be on a level with Aberdeen, Hearts and these clubs.
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Barrie McKay restored Rangers’ lead in the 96th minute before Rogic, who was to end the afternoon as the villain, rifled home a 106th minute leveler.
McKay found a yard of space after checking back on Celtic captain Scott Brown before unleasing a bullet shot from outside the box straight into the top corner of the Hoops net.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila will struggle to hold on to his job after the Scottish Cup defeat to Rangers, according to Pat Bonner.
Ronny Deila’s side had comfortably beat Rangers 2-0 in their League Cup semi-final last season and this time an already thin Rangers squad was missing four players for differing reasons, with only five substitutes named.
Nearly certainly the Norwegian manager’s days at Celtic Park are numbered, but if we are being honest this was not decided by Rogic’s shanked spot kick.
Most pundits hailed Rangers as the better of the teams during the 120-minute clash, which came after Scottish champions Celtic were billed as strong favourites going into the match.
Former Celtic striker Kenny Miller opened the scoring for the Light Blues in the 16th minute of a first half bossed by the Championship winners.
He said: ” If we are fortunate enough to win the cup final, it would get us into Europe.
“We’ll go in slightly as underdogs, which will probably suit us”.
“It was a very hard game, but we now have to fight for the league”. We are now going to build further on it for next season. “A lot of people outside of Rangers never gave us a chance, but we were completely confident”. “But I think the way Rangers have improved and the way they played against Dundee, everybody knows they’ve got that in them”.
Matches between Celtic and Rangers are among the most bitterly contested in world soccer, with the clubs traditionally divided along mostly sectarian lines – Roman Catholics supporting Celtic and Protestants behind Rangers.
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“I regard today as us being back and the feeling of every single board member was that we are back but we won’t relax about it”, said the chairman. We will see next year what they have to offer. “This one will be slightly different but again the stadium will be full, so it’s nice I’ve had that experience before”.
