The Rangers cry injustice, Celtic deserved winners

The Ibrox side had Theo Aasgaard deservedly sent off in the first half after a vicious high challenge on Tony Ralston with Celtic already a goal to the good, but let’s not them use that as the predictable excuse for their failure, as Celtic by far the better team and were deserved winners in the end.

Martin O’Neill’s side started brightly and we thought we had taken the lead due to a comical own goal, but VAR intervened to rule it out after spotting a very questionable offside in the build up with Andrew Dallas drawing the VAR lines.

Johnny Kenny soon had us back celebrating with a fine bulleted header via a superb corner kick delivery from the foot of Arne Engels.

We survived a scare just on the stroke of half time when Auston Trusty caught the head of Jack Butland, albeit accidentally, but he was shown a yellow which was perhaps the right call, despite the raging Bears whining about it deserving to be a red.

That fighting spirit and fluency we witnessed against Falkirk was evident once again from Martin O’Neill’s Celtic side although we failed to convert a host of good chances, and you just knew what was going to happen next as Nick Walsh gave the latest Ibrox side a helping hand as he pointed to the spot after judging Tony Ralston to have blocked a goal bound effort with his ticked in elbow. It was a disgraceful decision which Willie Collum is going to struggle to justify.

It was a harsh call so we thought VAR would at least ask Nick Walsh to go to the monitor but Andrew Dallas wasn’t interested and the penalty King James Tavernier made no mistake from the spot to get his side back in the game.

Extra time it was to be, and the Hoops made their man advantage count by scoring through Callum McGregor and substitute Callum Osmand to give the game the scoreline it deserved.

The Rangers will no doubt cry injustice, but they got what they fully deserved, and that was nothing. See you all at Hampden again next month. Bring on the Buddies.

By the way Johnny Kenny and Callum Osmand are decent players. Well done to St Martin for giving them their chance.

Now let’s win in Denmark.