Rangers 1-1 Celtic: Idah equaliser sees spoils shared in cagey Old Firm derby

Celtic came from down to contradict Rangers a 3rd consecutive Old Firm triumph arsenic Adam Idah’s second-half leveller earned a 1-1 gully astatine Ibrox.

Brendan Rodgers’ side, who wrapped up the Scottish Premiership rubric aft their triumph implicit Dundee United past Sunday, maintained a 17-point pb implicit their fierce rivals.

The hosts astir recovered themselves successful beforehand with conscionable 2 minutes connected the clock, but Leon Balogun’s close-range header from James Tavernier’s country clipped the crossbar.

Barry Ferguson’s squad had the shot successful the backmost of the nett erstwhile different teasing Tavernier set-piece was met with a almighty header by Nicolas Raskin successful the 25th minute.

But the extremity was chalked disconnected for offside against Raskin, who had conscionable strayed beyond Celtic’s antiaircraft erstwhile the shot was whipped into the punishment area.

Rangers did instrumentality the pb successful the 44th infinitesimal erstwhile Mohamed Diomande’s walk was brilliantly dummied by Vaclav Cerny, allowing Cyriel Dessers to decorativeness past Viljami Sinisalo.

But Celtic restored parity 12 minutes aft the restart erstwhile Idah’s deflected changeable recovered a mode past Liam Kelly, though the extremity was initially ruled retired for offside.

However, that determination was overturned pursuing a VAR review, with Daizen Maeda ruled not to person impeded Kelly’s enactment of show erstwhile Idah’s effort recovered its mode into the net.

Maeda past had a glorious accidental to snatch each 3 points successful the past infinitesimal of stoppage time, but helium was denied by the legs of Kelly arsenic helium tried to circular the Rangers goalkeeper.

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Data Debrief: Unwanted location grounds for Rangers

Rangers knew the value of a triumph here, not lone for derby bragging rights, but to halt their mediocre tally astatine home. However, they were incapable to find a victor connected Sunday.

Indeed, Rangers are present without a triumph astatine location successful their past 7 matches successful each competitions. The past clip they had gone six location games without a triumph was backmost successful 1960.

The last Old Firm of the play was reasonably even, though. Both teams had an expected goals (xG) full of 1.06, though Rangers did person much shots than Celtic (13 to seven).

Rangers did astatine slightest halt a tally of having conceded astatine slightest 2 goals successful each of their past 8 league matches earlier Sunday’s clash.