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Ewan Murray was at Celtic<\/a> Park this afternoon and has filed this full-time report. Thanks for reading this minute-by-minute.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Joshua Keeling does the email version of shaking his head: \u201cAs a neutral, it\u2019s going to be thoroughly dispiriting if Celtic<\/a> win the league again. If they win it even when they\u2019ve spent significant parts of the season in turmoil, what hope is there that they\u2019ll ever be seriously challenged?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The title race final run-in:<\/p>\n Wednesday 13th Saturday 16th Both Hearts and Celtic have the title in their hands.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Celtic move to within one point of leaders Hearts at the top of the table with two games to go. Both teams play on Wednesday before what could be a title decider between them at Celtic<\/a> Park next Saturday. Boy oh boy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Full time: Celtic 3-1 Rangers<\/p>\n Celtic are two wins from the Premiership title. Daizen Maeda has a lot to do with it with two second-half goals \u2013 one a sensational bicycle kick \u2013 seeing off Rangers<\/a> in this Old Firm and from the title race as well.<\/p>\n Singing Sir Rod. Photograph: Stuart Wallace\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.02 EDT<\/p>\n 90+4 min: Sarrachi catches Rommens in the face but Rangers<\/a> come again. Engels clears this time but Aasgaard wins a free-kick around 35 yards from goal.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+3 min: Rangers hit the bar! Miovski is unlucky to see his header come back off the bar after a cross from the right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.54 EDT<\/p>\n 90+2 min: McGregor clears a Barron corner to big cheers. Rangers<\/a> are still battling.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min: A flurry of fouls slows the game down even further. Hatate gets a yellow for preventing a Rangers<\/a> restart. He then leads a counterattack down the right before Celtic come back for some safe possession.<\/p>\n Four minutes added.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: Miovski leaves one on Ralston and is perplexed to see that he\u2019s given away a foul. Just another opportunity for Celtic<\/a> to slow the game down.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 min: Aasgaard is caught on the ball in a dangerous position inside his own half but Djiga mops up. Fernandez is penalised for a tackle on Ralston in the Celtic<\/a> half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 84 min: Gassama retrives a deep Fernandez cross but Maeda gets back to do some dirty work. Sterling\u2019s cross is then blocked by Tierney, who goes down with cramp. Sarrachi comes on for the grimacing left-back, who can barely walk. What a shift he\u2019s put in.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 82 min: Iheanacho and Ralston enter the fray for Celtic<\/a>, replacing Yang and Johnston.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 81 min: Maeda is spared his blushes after being played through one-on-one with Butland, his hat-trick to complete, and putting the ball wide. He was well offside and the flag belatedly goes up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Scales is next in the book after tugging back Chermiti by the neck\/face. Barron swings the resulting free-kick into the box and Djiga\u2019s header is gathered by easily Sinisalo.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min: There\u2019s a bit of pushing and shoving involving a few players after Celtic<\/a> win a goal-kick. Referee Nick Walsh shows a yellow each for Tierney and Rommens. It wasn\u2019t just them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min: Martin O\u2019Neill makes his second change as Hatate comes on for Nygren. Chukwuani makes way for Miovski for Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min: Johnston and Engels were caught in a pile-up at the back post defending that cross and both are OK are receiving treatment. Aasgaard\u2019s corner is headed away by the first man.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 min: Rangers<\/a> look for a lifeline. Rommens\u2019 corner is headed away by Scales. Djiga then challenges for a cross at the back post and Johnston concedes another corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: Moore\u2019s drive towards goal is halted on the edge of the area by a strong challenge from Tierney. Chermiti then fires into the side-netting via a deflection.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Fernandez, who\u2019s been Rangers\u2019 best player, tries to do it all himself down the left wing but is penalised for offside after he gets the ball back in the Celtic area.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min: Rangers<\/a> made a triple change not long after Celtic\u2019s third \u2013 Sterling, Aasgaard, Gassama on; Antman, Diomande, Tavernier off. They\u2019re seeing a fair bit of the ball but don\u2019t know what to do with it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.31 EDT<\/p>\n \u201cLubomir Moravcik watching admiringly in the crowd,\u201d notes Simon McMahon after Maeda\u2019s wonderful second. \u201cSurely one of the most underrated of all European players. He played for Celtic<\/a> at the tail end of his career and was a joy to watch. I still don\u2019t know if he was right or left footed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 66 min: Yang provides a threat again down the Celtic right. He lays the ball inside for Nygren, who shapes to shoot a couple of times before finding Tounekti. Rangers<\/a> eventually deal with it. There\u2019s a Poznan going on in the crowd.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.27 EDT<\/p>\n 64 min: Yang dances this way and that against Lommens before digging out a cross to the back post. It comes through to Tierney but his lofted ball into the box drops clear of the crossbar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: Celtic try to find Maeda again in the penalty area but he bundles Djiga over. He doesn\u2019t stop running, that man. Rangers<\/a> look shellshocked.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 60 min: Wow. Maeda\u2019s single-handedly reignited Celtic\u2019s title challenge this half. Two goals in four minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.21 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Celtic 3-1 Rangers (Maeda 57)<\/p>\n What an astonishing finish! Straight into the Old Firm annals! Tounetki sends a bobbling ball into the box, Maeda\u2019s first touch is up above his head, back to goal, and he launches himself into an overhead kick that lands inside the far post! My word.<\/p>\n Bang: Celtic\u2019s Daizen Maeda scores their side\u2019s third goal of the game. Photograph: Andrew Milligan\/PAHigh as a kite: Daizen Maeda of Celtic celebrates scoring his team\u2019s third goal. Photograph: Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.38 EDT<\/p>\n 56 min: Danny R\u00f6hl sits down in the Rangers<\/a> dugout and ponders what to do next. Gassama is getting ready to come on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Celtic 2-1 Rangers (Maeda 53)<\/p>\n Maeda connects this time! Scales lifts a ball over the Rangers<\/a> backline which Tierney scampers on to. Maeda runs across his man as the ball is cut back and the Japan striker tucks it past Butland!<\/p>\n Celtic’s Daizen Maeda scores their second goal past Rangers’ Jack Butland. Photograph: Russell Cheyne\/ReutersAnd wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.21 EDT<\/p>\n 52 min: Maeda inches away! Tounekti feeds a lovely pass through for Engels in the penalty area. His first-time cross is right across the corridor of uncertainty and Maeda throws himself at it at the back post, his boot just short of connecting.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.14 EDT<\/p>\n 51 min: Maeda tussles with Djiga on the byline and wins a well-earned corner for Celtic<\/a>. Engels delivers but Fernandez gets a strong head to it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 min: Engels gets a talking-to from the referee after tugging on Moore\u2019s shirt after the Spurs loanee had turned smartly in midfield. \u2018That\u2019s your last one\u2019 \u2013 something like that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 47 min: Rommens tests Celtic\u2019s backline with a free-kick into the box from deep but Maeda heads it up and out.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Restart<\/p>\n Celtic get us back under way. Tounekti, playing on the left, has replaced McCowan. Yang has shifted to the right wing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Some half-time replays show that Alistair Johnston was lucky to get away with just a yellow card for his sliding challenge on Mikey Moore towards the end of that first half. The studs were up and catch Moore on the ankle \u2013 it\u2019s nasty. Anyway, Johnston and Celtic<\/a> are back out for the second half \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n A half-time email from Simon McMahon: \u201cFor years Celtic, and to a lesser extent Rangers<\/a>, have bemoaned a lack of competition in Scotland. They didn\u2019t really mean it, of course, being happy to scoop up the trophies at home while signing every other club\u2019s best players and then blaming those same clubs inability to provide them with any real test for their own lack of success in Europe. I wonder how they\u2019re feeling now? Most fans outside the Old Firm are desperate for Hearts to win the league this season, or at least happy to see it. Will it change things in the longer term? I doubt it, but Hearts fans won\u2019t care about that…\u201d<\/p>\n The table as it stands \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Rangers have looked dangerous throughout that first 45 \u2013 Mikey Moore\u2019s goal on 10 minutes was not the first time they opened Celtic up. Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s side have shown fight and a well-worked move involving Luke McCowan and Arne Engels ended with Yang Hyun-jun drawing them level. It\u2019s wonderfully poised \u2013 and both teams need a win in the context of the title race.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Half-time: Celtic 1-1 Rangers<\/p>\n It\u2019s a result that suits Hearts for now.<\/p>\n The highs \u2026 Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PAAnd the lows of the Old Firm derby. Nice nails Rod. Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.52 EDT<\/p>\n 45 min: Nygren spins in the box and lays the ball back for Engels but he\u2019s off balance as he shoots and Butland watches it fly behind.<\/p>\n One minute added.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 43 min: Up the other end Tavernier swings a free-kick into the Celtic<\/a> box which is headed wide by Djiga at the back post. Really good chance, that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 42 min: Last-ditch defending from Rangers! McCowan threads a ball into the box for Maeda. Djiga slides in to prevent the shot and the angle is too tight for Yang to try for goal himself on the loose ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 39 min: Johnston goes in the book for Celtic<\/a> after a rash sliding tackle on Moore on halfway. He gets the ball but catches Moore on the follow-through.<\/p>\n
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