Celtic beat 10-man Rangers
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It's been a terrible season for the Old Firm – and Scottish football in general – but did the Scottish Cup semi-final show all is not lost?
Pat Bonner on BBC Scotland: "The sending off had a huge role to play, although Rangers did rally in the second half. "They had the chances to even win this game. "That summed a Celtic team under Martin O'Neill - high energy, everybody banging into tackles.
Celtic will clash with Rangers in the 2025/2026 Scottish League Cup semifinals. Here’s how fans in the United States can watch the match live on TV or stream it online.
James Forrest hit the crossbar and Jack Butland made numerous saves before captain Callum McGregor emphatically restored Celtic’s advantage early in extra time, with victory then secured by a first goal in green and white for summer arrival Callum Osmand. Follow Celtic vs Rangers live below!
Rangers head coach Danny Rohl : "I think this is tough for the team because we had the feeling we could beat them even with 10 men. "We put a lot of effort in, showed a lot of resilience and a lot of good spirit in the second half, nice football, we were brave.
After an energetic start, Celtic initially took the lead thanks to an own goal, as Nasser Djiga knocked the ball off Nico Raskin. However, after a short delay, Celtic celebrations would be silenced as VAR overturned the goal, ruling that Daizen Maeda had been offside in the build-up. An extremely tight decision, but the Celts pushed on.
Old Firm derbies are famously heated affairs, and Artur Boruc certainly brought this up a notch during his time at Celtic. The Polish goalkeeper enjoyed the most successful spell of his career at
For over a decade, Rangers' turbulence has provided their rivals with a steady diet of schadenfreude, but ahead of Sunday's League Cup semi-final, both clubs have been fighting for the negative headlines. In the east end, Celtic fans have spent weeks protesting against a board they see as out of touch.
With the possible exception of the very early weeks of the season, when Celtic and Rangers meet, it is usual for one of them to be hovering somewhere close to crisis. It is simply the nature of Scottish football, the overwhelming strength and remorseless antipathy of the Glasgow sides. When one is down, the other is presumably up.
Callum McGregor and Callum Osmand scored in extra-time as Celtic emerged victors in an epic Premier Sports Cup semifinal against 10-man Rangers at Hampden Park on Sunday. With for