With no visiting fans allowed at any of this season’s Glasgow derbies, Ryan Naderi’s winning goal was met with nothing but the banging of fists of the plastic of the Rangers bench and the shouting of the broadcast commentators.
In the coming three weeks, as club football dissolves for the international break, noises and voices will pour into the void: some helpful and some not.
Naderi’s goal, bundled in from close range after Kim Min-su’s long-range effort was parried helpfully into his path by Viljami Sinisalo, was the most consequential emblem of Rangers’ superiority here.
None of this has been remotely visible at Celtic for a while.
McGregor is 33 and the captain, but has looked off the pace for some time now.
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Headline as published: Rangers and Ryan Naderi finish off Celtic’s horror week with Old Firm victory
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If ever a stadium can be affected by silence, this was the moment. With no visiting fans allowed at any of this season’s Glasgow derbies, Ryan Naderi’s winning goal was met with nothing but the banging of fists of the plastic of the Rangers bench and the shouting of the broadcast commentators. A screaming void of apathy and atrophy, the sound of a beckoning abyss, of three straight Celtic defeats and a title race blowing open.
In the coming three weeks, as club football dissolves for the international break, noises and voices will pour into the void: some helpful and some not. If last season’s double illustrated the way this club can still rise above adversity, there can no longer be any hiding place, no equivocation with the drop in standards that was evident here.
Naderi’s goal, bundled in from close range after Kim Min-su’s long-range effort was parried helpfully into his path by Viljami Sinisalo, was the most consequential emblem of Rangers’ superiority here. Derek McInnes arrived with an unchanged team, coherent patterns of play, a functional and hungry midfield, order to their disruption. None of this has been remotely visible at Celtic for a while.
Even as they chased the game in the final minutes, they could barely fashion a chance, barely get hold of the ball. Martin O’Neill sprang a surprise with Luke McCowan in midfield, discarded his back five at half-time and rolled through his substitutions, but no plan ever emerged from the fog.
McGregor is 33 and the captain, but has looked off the pace for some time now.
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