Kick-off: 12:00 GMT, SundayTV: Sky Sports Main Event<\/p>\n
We’re not quite at the stage where we can claim there’s a contrast in confidence between Glasgow’s two clubs. They head into their fourth meeting of the season in slightly different places though, with negative results understandably drawing more scrutiny when they involve either Celtic or Rangers.<\/p>\n
Rangers have found new life under Danny R\u00f6hl. Hearts are the only side to get the better of his since his arrival at Ibrox but they did recently put four past the league leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n Draws have been a feature of recent weeks but the belief remains that they can secure another Scottish Premiership<\/a> title.<\/p>\n We would have previously said that Celtic are in the same boat. Martin O’Neill’s first interim spell delivered results as did the start of his second but events of the past couple of weeks has seen the doubt creep in.<\/p>\n They did beat Stuttgart<\/a> in Europa League action on Thursday night but they were already 4-1 down<\/a> from the first leg. That came with Hibernian’s surprise win<\/a> at Parkhead wedged in between.<\/p>\n Add in the battles between supporters and those at boardroom level and it’s not an atmosphere which makes you believe they’ll end with a title. Rangers, having beaten Celtic<\/a> during Wilfried Nancy’s disastrous spell at the helm, will know the opportunity is there again.<\/p>\n It’s a bit of a surprise to see a RANGERS WIN priced up at 6\/5 across the board with some bookmakers going 13\/10. That said, you’d expect them to drift into odds-on by kick-off.<\/p>\n I’d say they’re still worth taking at 19\/20. No side has taken more points than Rangers’ 47 since R\u00f6hl was appointed in October – that’s nine better than Hearts.<\/p>\n Celtic would have been closer to that figure had they not gone with the Nancy experiment but it’s hard to oppose a home side in form such as this. At Ibrox, it’s nine wins and a draw from the ten in the previously-stated period.<\/p>\n They’ve conceded just six times, scoring 23 in response. This is an attack which can exploit a Celtic defence which has shipped at least twice in six of their last ten across all competitions.<\/p>\n The visitors have also had the added games of their Europa League knockout tie with an outing to Germany on Thursday night. It’s a quick turnaround and the recent Thursday-Sunday-Thursday-Sunday schedule could catch up with them.<\/p>\n With R\u00f6hl now having some experience in this fixture, coupled with their own great form, a home win feels the straightforward selection on Sunday.<\/p>\n Odds correct at 10:00 GMT (27\/02\/26)<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kick-off: 12:00 GMT, SundayTV: Sky Sports Main Event We’re not quite at the stage where we can claim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-323737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}