{"id":562936,"date":"2026-05-02T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:10:13","slug":"scottish-premiership-what-next-in-epic-three-way-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562936\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Premiership: What next in epic three-way title race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Life as a Hibs fan must feel a bit strange and rather scary right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing the Edinburgh derby on Sunday &#8211; a result that boosted their city rivals&#8217; title hopes &#8211; they now face the two other title challengers in their final four games, knowing positive results will further fuel Hearts&#8217; ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Motherwell six points clear in fourth place and boasting a superior goal difference, and Falkirk only two points behind Hibs in sixth, David Gray&#8217;s side badly need the points if they are to try to guarantee European football next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic are the first of the top three in action again this weekend, travelling to Easter Road on Sunday with the chance to move level on points at the summit &#8211; an opportunity they took last Saturday evening with a 3-1 win over Falkirk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fourth straight league win would mean gameweek 34 ends with O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s men closer to the top, further from third, or both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Celtic do not seem to be convincing everyone. Despite last weekend&#8217;s results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c152gw55e40o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former striker Chris Sutton reckons<\/a> Rangers still have a better chance of winning the title than his old side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It still isn&#8217;t fully clicking for the Parkhead club, but they benefited from a more unified atmosphere last Saturday, while striker Daizen Maeda is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c93ervqxx6xo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returning to his best<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With three goals in his past five games, an upturn in form from last season&#8217;s Premiership player of the year perhaps symbolises the change in mood and the momentum building at Celtic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory against a dangerous opponent who got the better of them in February would only reinforce that notion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life as a Hibs fan must feel a bit strange and rather scary right now. After losing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562936","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\/562936","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=562936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}