Ange Postecoglou shuts Celtic doubters down as he claims Rangers thrashing shows they're ready for Madrid

Barry Ferguson accused Ange Postecoglou of not having a Plan B.

But when Plan A is this good, the Celtic boss doesn’t need to change it for anyone. In the build-up to Saturday's Old Firm clash at Parkhead, former Ibrox captain Ferguson claimed in Record Sport that Gio van Bronckhorst had the Aussie coach sussed.

But by full-time, the only ones left clueless were the Rangers manager and his players. They couldn’t live with the way Postecoglou had set his team up to play. Celtic were quicker and sharper in every department as they romped to a comprehensive 4-0 Premiership win. And on another day, they could have won by more. Since the day he arrived from Japan, Postecoglou has said he’ll stick to his principles.That’s what earned Celtic their title back last season.

And after bludgeoning their city rivals into submission again at Parkhead with their free-flowing attacking style - why wouldn’t he?

Afterwards, he didn’t mention Ferguson by name. But the ex-Rangers man’s comments were clearly used as extra motivation for the Hoops.

Postecoglou said: “Maybe if I was German, Dutch or Spanish, people might look at me differently as a manager in terms of tactics. Apparently I’ve got one simple approach, a plan A. But we’ll just stick to that.

“I’m really proud of this group again. We know the occasion, it was a big game for our club and supporters. Rangers are a very good team so we knew going into it, it would be a challenge.

“But the boys were outstanding from start to finish. The quality of our football was good and we just worked our socks off.

“We want to be a team that’s relentless and 60,000 fans come here to watch good football. We’ve started the season really strongly but we’ve got stronger each week and today