{"id":483935,"date":"2026-02-16T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483935\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:52:08","slug":"is-scottish-premiership-title-race-the-most-exciting-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483935\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Scottish Premiership title race the most exciting in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was a dramatic day in the three-way battle for the Scottish Premiership title.<\/p>\n

First up, Celtic came from two goals down to snatch a 3-2 victory<\/a> at Kilmarnock – with Julian Araujo scoring the winner in the seventh minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Then there was a six-pointer between Rangers and Hearts at Ibrox. Twice the away side took the lead, only for a Youssef Chermiti hat-trick to transform the game and give Danny Rohl’s side a 4-2 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It left the three teams separated by just three points: Hearts on 57, Rangers on 55 and Celtic on 54.<\/p>\n

Celtic have a game in hand, away at Aberdeen on 4 March, which could leave the trio within two points of each other.<\/p>\n

There are several close two-team title races across Europe.<\/p>\n

In France, there is just one point between Lens and Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n

And in Spain, Real Madrid are two points behind Barcelona with a game in hand.<\/p>\n

But in both those leagues there is a sizeable gap to third place. <\/p>\n

Can any other European league rival the drama of Scotland? BBC Sport has picked out the five closest title battles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday was a dramatic day in the three-way battle for the Scottish Premiership title. First up, Celtic came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-483935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}