{"id":455262,"date":"2026-03-03T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:01:08","slug":"scottish-cup-rangers-v-celtic-why-danny-rohl-needs-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455262\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Cup: Rangers v Celtic &#8211; why Danny Rohl needs cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers manager Danny Rohl needs a Scottish Cup win more than Old Firm counterpart Martin O&#8217;Neill, says former Celtic striker Chris Sutton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Glasgow rivals meet at Ibrox for a second week in a row, this time in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers led 2-0 in the Premiership encounter on Sunday, before Celtic came back to earn a draw in the second half, with both clubs chasing leaders Hearts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton says he cannot predict who will win the rematch in the cup, given both sides&#8217; inconsistency this season, but believes despite doing &#8220;brilliantly well&#8221; Rohl is under more pressure to deliver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;d think home advantage may suit Rangers with their record under Danny Rohl but the game at the weekend proved that any result is absolutely possible,&#8221; Sutton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think Danny Rohl needs it more than Martin O&#8217;Neill. The reason I say that is Martin O&#8217;Neill as a manager this season has twice come in and kept Celtic hanging on in a title race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Celtic  fans aren&#8217;t going blame Martin O&#8217;Neill for the mess the club has been in this season. We know where the anger and ire and blame is laid out from the Celtic support. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers manager Danny Rohl needs a Scottish Cup win more than Old Firm counterpart Martin O&#8217;Neill, says former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}