Steven Gerrard’s Rangers and Neil Lennon’s Celtic will be going head-to-head for the league title this season.
Rangers hitman Jermain Defoe suggested that Steven Gerrard’s team have sent an emphatic message to bitter rivals Celtic, having beaten Hibernian 6-1 in the Scottish Premiership yesterday, as quoted by the Daily Record.
Both Glasgow giants have made excellent starts to the season. Rangers have scored eight and conceded two, whilst Celtic have bagged 12, shipping just two.
The Gers will have to be at their very best this season, if they are to have any chance of stopping the Hoops winning their ninth consecutive league title, but there are signs that Gerrard’s men have closed the gap.
And Defoe highlighted how his side’s 6-1 in over Hibs yesterday was the perfect response to Celtic’s scintillating start to the season, as quoted by the Daily Record:
“Of course, yes. You can’t ignore it – the way they’ve started and the amount of goals they’ve scored. It’s nice that we’ve won the game so convincingly today. You don’t always have to score six or seven goals. It doesn’t really matter. But it is nice to win in that way. It’s good for the fans as well as well as the new lads who’ve come in – to get goals and assists. It’s good for the confidence.”
Rangers can ill-afford to slip up in the early stages of the season, because that would just give Celtic the impetus to go on and create some distance at the top of the table.
The first Old Firm clash is on September 1st, and the result of the match could have a huge physiological bearing on the outcome of the title, despite the fact that it comes so early in the season.
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