Rangers V Celtic: Scottish Premiership Updates – Live

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Celtic, meanwhile, bring successful caller signing Michel-Ange Balikwisha – Marcelo Saracchi is connected nan chair – and Arne Engels, pinch nan Hyun-Jun and James Forrest dropping to nan bench.

What does it each mean? Nico Raskin, 1 of Rangers’ champion players past season, isn’t moreover successful nan squad – there’s talk that he and Martin are little than cordial. Otherwise, location are 5 changes to nan broadside edged 6-0 by Brugge: retired spell Max Aarons, sent disconnected connected Wednesday night, nan injured Lyall Cameron, Danilo, Joe Rothwell and Oliver Antman; James Tavernier, Mohamed Diomande and Connor Barron comes in, likewise Mikey Moore, making his first commencement for nan club, and Bojan Miovski, making his debut.

Teams!

Rangers: (4-3-3): Butland; Tavernier, Djiga, Souttar, Meghoma; Barron, Diomande, Aasgaar; Gassama, Movski, Moore Subs: Kelly, Aarons, Rothwell, Dessers, Bajrami, Antman, Fernandez, Curtis, Danilo.

Celtic (4-3-3): Schmeichel; Ralston, Scales, Carter-Vickers, Tierney; McGregor, Hatate, Engels; Nygren, Maeda, Balikwisha. Subs: Sinisalo, Yang, McCowan, Shin, Bernardo, Saracchi, Murray, Forrest, Donovan.

Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)

Preamble

Bournemouth v Arsenal; Betis v Villarreal; Como v Cremonese; Köln v Eintracht Frankfurt; Marseille v Lille: each a action of seventh v 2nd contests, which is what we person awaiting america this lunchtime.

Of course, nan Old Firm crippled is different – a ceremony of vicious hatred for illustration nary other, sloppy of convention position. But aft a disastrous commencement to nan season, nan mobility coming is whether Rangers fans consciousness greater antipathy towards Celtic … aliases their ain players and manager.

Things could scarcely person gone worse for Russell Martin since arriving astatine Ibrox this summer, nan dazzling purity of his futuristic game-model erstwhile again blase beyond nan intelligibility of everyone but him. So acold this season, The Bears person achieved humiliation successful Europe on pinch draws against Motherwell, Dundee and St Mirren, nan consciousness that his tenure is already coming to an end: conclusion coming could mean curtains for the curtains.

Nothing, though, could refresh them for illustration a triumph complete Celtic – who besides get astatine this crippled having covered themselves successful embarrassment, hoofed retired of nan Champions League qualifiers by nan third-best squad successful Kazakhstan. That will person stung Brendan Rodgers – possibly nan only head successful shot successful greater thrall to himself than Martin – and Europe’s premier nine competition, simply not nan aforesaid without him successful it.

Most likely, he redeems himself by winning yet different title – successful nan league, his squad person won 3 from 3 and person yet to concede a goal. But location is unit to show he tin present much than that, a decent tally successful nan Europa League emotion imperative moreover if, successful nan meantime, location are inexpensive laughs to beryllium won kicking rivals erstwhile they’re down. And if Celtic were to lose, to this Rangers, superior questions would beryllium asked of his activity excessively – or, successful different words, this is going to beryllium a batch of nosy … for nan remainder of us.

Kick-off: 12pm BST