Steven Gerrard’s Ibrox club Glasgow Rangers are ahead of Brendan Rodgers’s Celtic.
Rangers manager Steven Gerrard
Rangers are at the top of the league table at the moment with 30 points from 14 matches, a point clear of second-placed and bitter Old Firm rivals Celtic, who do have a game in hand.
Simunovic, who joined Celtic from Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 2015 for a transfer fee reported by The Daily Mail to be worth £3 million, has explained why Rangers being ahead of them is good for the Hoops.
The 24-year-old Croatian centre-back, though, believes that Celtic are better than Rangers.
Simunovic told The Daily Record: “We have a game in hand. In football the pressure is all the time, especially if you want to win the league. That can only be a positive for us.
“For us it is good Rangers are good, so we can give even more. It brings the best out of us. We need that. We are definitely still the strongest team in the country. We need to keep going.”
Title challenge
Celtic have not faced any realistic challenge for the Scottish Premiership title for the past few seasons, but things are different this time around.
Rangers are rejuvenated under Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard, who was appointed the Gers’ manager in the summer of 2018, and the likelihood is that the Ibrox club will maintain their challenge until the end of the season.
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