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Rangers compounded Celtic’s depressing season by ending their Glasgow rivals’ four-year maintain on the Scottish Cup with a 2-0 win at Ibrox on Sunday.
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Rangers compounded Celtic’s depressing season by ending their Glasgow rivals’ four-year maintain on the Scottish Cup with a 2-0 win at Ibrox on Sunday. Steven Davis opened the scoring for Steven Gerrard’s males earlier than a Jonjoe Kenny personal objective gave Celtic a mountain to climb. The guests’ day was summed up when Odsonne Edouard’s penalty 11 minutes from time was saved by Allan McGregor as Rangers eased into the quarter-finals. After successful 4 consecutive home trebles, Celtic will now finish a marketing campaign with out silverware for the primary time since 2009/10. Rangers had already ended the Hoops’ maintain of the Scottish Premiership and have been eager to point out the shift in energy throughout the Glasgow divide with a brilliant begin.
Davis didn’t present his age at 36 as he acrobatically hooked the ball into the web after simply 10 minutes after Joe Aribo’s preliminary effort had been blocked.
Celtic loved extra possession and efforts on objective throughout the 90 minutes, however as soon as once more paid for lacking their probabilities at one finish and defensive lapses on the different.
Centre-back Stephen Welsh ought to have celebrated signing a brand new four-year contract this week when he turned the ball away from objective fairly than equalise halfway via the first-half.
Another Celtic defender then discovered the web on the fallacious finish as Everton loanee Kenny turned Aribo’s cross into his personal internet.
Celtic’s star striker Edouard additionally did not take his probability to arrange a grandstand end when Aribo was penalised for handball inside his personal field.
The French under-21 worldwide has been strongly linked with a transfer to the Premier League this week with Arsenal, Leicester and West Ham reportedly .
But he couldn’t add to his 20 targets this season as McGregor saved from the spot.
Rangers are actually sturdy favourites to safe a league and cup double and can face St Johnstone in the final eight.
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