Celtic confident of ending Rangers' two-year unbeaten run at Ibrox

Currently on an impressive run of 31 domestic matches without defeat, Celtic have high hopes of winning Sunday’s Old Firm clash at Ibrox.

And should Ange Postecoglou’s side get the three points to double their lead at the top of the Premiership to six — while enjoying a vastly superior goal difference to Rangers — they would be on the cusp of being crowned Scottish champions.

Yet if Celtic are to come out on top this weekend they will have to do what no Scottish side has managed in over two years: win a league match at Fortress Ibrox.

The last team to triumph at the Govan ground in the Premiership was Hamilton Accies, when David Moyo’s goal on March 4, 2020, sealed a shock 1-0 win shortly before the global pandemic curtailed the season.

Not even the most wildly optimistic Rangers fan could have predicted amid the fury within Ibrox that evening that their team would enter April 2022 still to experience another home league loss.

Especially when captain James Tavernier unwisely used his pre-Accies programme notes to lay bare the deficiencies in Steven Gerrard’s side just days after they had been knocked out of the Scottish Cup at Tynecastle by a relegation-bound Hearts team.

‘Whenever anybody puts a bit of pressure on us in Scotland or gets in our face it seems to affect us too much,’ Rangers captain Tavernier conceded in comments that provoked anger amongst the Ibrox support.

‘At the start of the season, teams dropped off us and we were scoring four or five goals, but now they smell blood straight away and put us under pressure. We are not good enough domestically to react to that.’

Yet, against that backdrop Rangers confounded all expectations when they returned for the new season and went the entire league campaign