This season, in two separate spells, O’Neill is unbeaten in three meetings with Rangers, winning in both cup competitions after extra time and drawing at Ibrox in the league.<\/p>\n
In his first period at the club between 2000-05, O’Neill won 16 derbies, drawing three and losing eight.<\/p>\n
Celtic are on a run of four successive league victories, while Rangers have lost their past two matches to fall off the pace.<\/p>\n
However, Rangers did win on their last visit to Celtic Park in January when Wilfried Nancy was in charge of the hosts.<\/p>\n
When quizzed about building momentum at the right time, O’Neill was cautious.<\/p>\n
“I genuinely don’t know that,” he said. “The games that we’ve had have been difficult. So I’ve not tried to analyse that much about it. We’ve got over the line.<\/p>\n
“But I think the Old Firm game looks after itself.”<\/p>\n
Addressing his future, O’Neill replied “most likely” when asked if this would be his last derby game.<\/p>\n
On his memories of the famous fixture, he added: “Just the intensity, the atmosphere itself, both at Celtic Park and at Ibrox. It really is phenomenal.<\/p>\n
“The atmosphere at Ibrox where they scored two early on in the match, the place was really, really rocking, it compares to any atmosphere in Britain and probably in Europe.<\/p>\n
“And I think that could be echoed on Sunday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This season, in two separate spells, O’Neill is unbeaten in three meetings with Rangers, winning in both cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-658305","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\/658305","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=658305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}