First Defeat For Gerrard – 13 Was Unlucky Against Celtic

On Sunday, Steven Gerrard’s Rangers side came back down to earth slightly as Celtic dominated the first Old Firm of the year.

It’s easy to lose perspective as confidence was incredibly high for many ahead of the game kicking off, and whilst it’s difficult to argue they didn’t deserve the win really – we can take positives from some manful defending and Gerrard would’ve wanted to see us more clinical when our chances came along.

One goal won it for them, even though they hit the woodwork a few times and the history books will say we are winless in the derby going back to March 2012, however, I think Gerrard will take a more philosophical approach as it is still early days under him and as a side we are still coming together and waiting for things to click properly given all the changes over the summer and the sheer numbers of arrivals.

We are far from the finished product and a first loss was coming given our unbeaten start, it just grates that it came in this one and in that manner, but Celtic undoubtedly raised their game so it’s fair to say they felt the pressure. We need to raise our game to justify that pressure in the future and we didn’t.

Celtic				Rangers
Ntcham (62)
Gordon				McGregor
Lustig				Tavernier
Boyata				Katic
Ajer				Goldson
Tierney				Barisic
Ntcham				Jack			81
Brown				Ejaria
Forrest			92	Kent			87
Rogic			77	Arfield
McGregor				Morelos
Edouard			66	Lafferty
Substitutes
Griffiths			66	Worrall
Sinclair			92	Foderingham
Gamboa				Flanagan
Christie			77	Halliday
Bain				McCrorie
Benkovic				Candeias			87
Kouassi				Middleton			81

Game Statistics
16	Goal attempts	6
9	On Target	2
14	Corners	4
14	Fouls	16
2	Yellow Cards	4
0	Red Cards	0
57	%	43