Rangers 3 – 0 Celtic

Rangers inflicted Celtic’s first defeat of the season with a 3-0 win as Philippe Clement’s Previous Agency hoodoo ended to ease some strain on the struggling Rangers supervisor.

Hurting from dropped factors at St Mirren and Motherwell, Clement’s facet have been fired as much as beat their rivals for the primary time since Could 2023 as Brendan Rodgers suffered his first Ibrox loss.

They have been the higher facet from kick-off and Ianis Hagi sparked the followers into life when he fired within the opener with simply seven minutes on the clock.

Vaclav Cerny hit the woodwork both facet of Kyogo’s offside purpose as Rangers continued to dominate. Robin Propper slammed of their second with Danilo coming off the bench to wrap up a complete win together with his first contact.

Celtic have been removed from their finest however stay 11 factors forward within the Scottish Premiership title race as Clement seems to be to have gained over the followers once more, for now.

Hoops humbled at Ibrox

Rangers have been with out goalkeeper Jack Butland and captain James Tavernier, however they began with actual intent and Nedim Bajrami had three pictures blocked in fast succession as they regarded for an early lead.

It took simply seven minutes for Ibrox to burst into life when Hagi collected from stand-in captain Raskin to ship a superb strike into the nook of the online.

The hosts have been fired up.

Vaclav Cerny nearly doubled their lead quickly after, his shot deflecting off Liam Scales and clipping the highest of the crossbar with Ridvan Yilmaz then forcing Kasper Schmeichel right into a save minutes later.

Celtic struggled to string a cross along with Daizen Maeda’s off-target shot the most effective they needed to provide within the first half an hour.

Hagi had an opportunity to make it 2-0 when Reo Hatate gave away the ball however this time he dragged his shot broad.

It was then Cameron Carter-Vickers to the rescue with a brilliantly timed sliding sort out to cease Mohamed Diomande placing Rangers additional forward.

Jefte left Nicolas Kuhn with a lower nostril as half-time approached as he picked up a reserving. After the resultant free-kick was cleared, Liam Kelly pulled off a superb save on his Previous Agency debut to cease Maeda scoring from Paulo Bernardo’s nook.

The captains clashed on the whistle with Raskin proven a yellow whereas Callum McGregor, already on a reserving, escaped additional punishment.

Celtic regarded to get again into the sport and Kyogo despatched a superb volley over Kelly and into the online however VAR confirmed he was nicely offside.

Cerny then rattled the woodwork once more as his shot crashed off the publish earlier than Rodgers rang the adjustments with Adam Idah, Alex Valle and Luke McCowan changing Kyogo, Greg Taylor and Bernardo.

Rangers threatened once more.

Schmeichel acquired all the way down to push Cerny’s shot previous, however seconds later they doubled their lead as Propper slammed the ball in on the rebound after Raskin’s header was blocked.

The hosts wished extra and Schmeichel parried Yilmaz’s long-range strike behind because the Hoops regarded shellshocked.

And so they weren’t executed but as Danilo got here off the bench to comb within the third together with his first contact of the sport.

The followers have been in dreamland however nonetheless, objects have been thrown from the stands onto the pitch late on with police concerned in clearing them.

Clement took his gamers to have a good time with the followers whereas the Celtic gamers trudged down the Ibrox tunnel in disbelief at their poor exhibiting.

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