Cynical Press
Rangers
Rangers broke the game up whenever it got away from them — 19 fouls and 3 bookings.
- Fouls
- 19
- Yellow cards
- 3
Premiership · Matchday 7
Celtic
0 – 1
FT
HT 0–1
Rangers
Ryan Naderi 33'
Premiership
Matchday 7Celtic0–1Rangers
0.71
Expected goals
1.23
33′
Shot-by-shot xG is not available for this fixture, so the race is shown as full-time totals: CEL 0.71, RAN 1.23.
Match report
Celtic 0-1 Rangers
Rangers edged out Celtic 1-0 at Celtic Park in Premiership. Naderi opened the scoring for Rangers on 33'.
Expected goals finished Celtic 0.71, Rangers 1.23. The scoreline is a fair reflection of who created more. Celtic held 55.0% of the ball.
The numbers picked up more than the scoreline shows. Rangers graded out for cynical press — 19 fouls and 3 yellow cards. Celtic graded out for busy goalkeeper — 6 saves and 1.23 faced xg.
Dujon Sterling came out of it with the best individual rating on the pitch, 8.9 for Rangers from 1 key pass and 4 tackles.
It was a niggly afternoon: 35 fouls between them and 5 yellow cards, with Rangers conceding the most free-kicks (19).
Assembled by TackleZone from this fixture’s match events, team statistics and player ratings. Figures are as reported by the competition feed; where a statistic was not reported, it is left out rather than shown as zero. Longer written analysis is published for selected matches.
Quick stats
55%Possession45%
5Shots15
0.71xG1.23
What the numbers say
2 readsBusy Goalkeeper
Celtic
Celtic leaned on their goalkeeper, who made 6 saves.
- Saves
- 6
- Faced xG
- 1.23
- Conceded
- 1
Timeline
🟨4'
Emmanuel Fernandez
Foul
🟨5'
Derek McInnes
Dissent
⚽33'
Ryan Naderi
Kasper Hogh ↑ Luke McCowan ↓
🔄45'
Half-time
🟨57'
Min-su Kim
Foul
James Forrest ↑ Benjamin Nygren ↓
🔄63'
Haissem Hassan ↑ Kieran Tierney ↓
🔄71'
Sebastian Tounekti ↑ Camilo Duran ↓
🔄71'
🔄71'
Findlay Curtis ↑ Min-su Kim ↓
🔄72'
Badredine Bouanani ↑ Djeidi Gassama ↓
Callum McGregor
Foul
🟨73'
Sebastian Tounekti
Dissent
🟨74'
📺75'
Olwethu Makhanya · Goal cancelled
🔄76'
Ben Godfrey ↑ James Penrice ↓
🟨88'
Badredine Bouanani
Time Wasting
🔄88'
Tochi Chukwuani ↑ Dan Neil ↓
🔄89'
Cameron Devlin ↑ Kevin Kelsy ↓
Shumaira Mheuka ↑ Liam Scales ↓
🔄89'
Match info
Kickoff
VenueCeltic Park, Glasgow
RefereeJohn Beaton, Scotland
CompetitionPremiership
Season2026
RoundMatchday 7
StatusMatch Finished