Celtic 0-1 Rangers: Report, result, goals from Scottish Premiership

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Rangers beat Celtic for the second time in seven days to move two points behind the Scottish Premiership leaders as Ryan Naderi’s first-half strike settled the derby at Celtic Park.

A week after Rangers thrashed their arch-rivals 3-0 at home in the Scottish League Cup quarter-finals, Naderi pounced when goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo pushed Kim Minsu’s long-distance drive into his path in the 33rd minute.

Celtic had a fifth-minute volley by Auston Trusty disallowed for offside against Liam Scales and hit the bar through Kieran Tierney’s thunderous shot before the opener, but almost fell further behind when Djeidi Gassama shot against a post during the first half.

Rangers’ Olwethu Makhanya had an exquisite volley ruled out 15 minutes from time because the defender was adjudged to have used a hand to control the ball.

Celtic vs Rangers: Result deepens Hoops’ horror week

Martin O’Neill’s side had won all seven of their opening domestic matches of the season before that defeat to Rangers, prefacing a tame 3-1 home loss to Ferencvaros in their Europa League opener on Thursday.

While Gers counterpart Derek McInnes will now hope his team continue their momentum in pursuit of the pacesetters, O’Neill is likely to be as concerned as Celtic’s fans audibly were by another listless and untidy performance.

Former Rangers striker Kris Boyd said he had “no idea” what Sinisalo was doing for his part in the goal. “Celtic have got problems in the goalkeeping department – no doubt about that,” Boyd told Sky Sports Scotland.

“That was terrible. The defence didn’t react. Naderi was off the back of [Benjamin] Nygren. As soon the ball came in, he was the first to react, alert and found the back of the net.”

Celtic team vs Rangers

Celtic made three changes to their starting side from their 3-1 home defeat to Ferencvaros in their Europa League opener on Thursday.

Auston Trusty, Luke McCowan and Benjamin Nygren came in for James Forrest, Oliver Sorensen and Haissem Hassan.

Celtic: Sinisalo, Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Scales, Tierney, McGregor, Baur, McCowan, Nygren, Duran

Substitutes: Johnstone, Hogh, Tounekti, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Hassan, Mheuka, Murray, Forrest, Ralston

Rangers team vs Celtic

Rangers were unchanged.

Rangers: Pandur, Sterling, Fernandez, Makhanya, Penrice, Neil, Raskin, Minsu, Gassama, Kelsy, Naderi.

Substitutes: Kelly, McCrorie, Godfrey, Dragojevic, Devlin, Chukwuani, Curtis, Bouanani, Miovski

What’s next? Rangers, Celtic fixtures

Here’s how the teams’ fixtures look immediately after the international break.

Date Fixture BST start time ET PT
Sat, October 10 Rangers vs Kilmarnock 15:00 10:00 07:00
Sun, October 11 Motherwell vs Celtic 12:00 07:00 04:00

Rangers vs Celtic Old Firm stats

  • Celtic’s 3-1 win over Rangers in May ended a six-game winless run in League Old Firm derbies (D3 L3). The Hoops have won six of their last eight home games against Rangers in the Scottish Premiership (L2)
  • Rangers beat Celtic 3-0 in the Scottish League Cup last weekend. Only twice before in the club’s entire history have they faced their Old Firm rivals twice in a row in all competitions and won both times, doing so in September 1960 under Scot Symon and April 1998 under Walter Smith
  • Celtic are looking to win 14+ consecutive league matches for the first time since March 2017 under Brendan Rodgers (22), a run which ended via a 1-1 home draw with Rangers
  • Celtic have won each of their last 13 league games, their longest winning run coming into a league Old Firm derby since March 2017 (22 in a row). The Hoops have only won two of the six previous occasions they have faced Rangers in the league while on a 13+ game league winning run (D1 L3).
  • After Rangers’ 3-0 win in the
  • Scottish League Cup last time out, Derek McInnes could become only the second manager to win both of his first two Old Firm derbies against Celtic in charge of the club, after Graeme Souness in 1986.
  • Rangers have used more players (26) and made the joint-most starting XI changes (18) of any side in the Scottish Premiership thisseason.
  • Five of Celtic’s six home league goals this season have come in the first half of matches, with their only second half strike at Celtic Park coming from Benjamin Nygren v Dundee on MD1.

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