How Celtic's Ange Postecoglou can complete a rare Scottish set against Rangers at Ibrox

There will be “big consequences” said Ange Postecoglou of his Celtic team’s hop across the city for Sunday’s monumental derby confrontation at Ibrox.

The Australian no doubt meant that in terms of the struggle for cinch Premiership supremacy. A win for his side would practically see them with one hand on the league championship trophy - even if the 56-year-old would never admit as much. Unquestionably, though, that is what is on the line. It could be no other way when Celtic hold a three-point lead over title rivals Rangers, and a superior goal difference of 14, going into the seventh-last game of the top flight campaign.

If there is a decisive outcome to the fixture this weekend, for any of the protagonists, other - albeit, less impactful - considerations will come into play. The Ibrox arena is the last hurdle within Scotland for Postecoglou to surmount in a first campaign at the Celtic helm where he has been able to scale heights confidently predicted were impossible. A hardly unreasonable conclusion to draw in light of Rangers’ title triumph last season being secured by a record 25-point winning margin. The chasm was owed, in part, to what unfolded when Celtic took to the Ibrox turf. The east end of Glasgow club have been beaten on each of their past four excursions to the Govan ground - three of these reverses on Premiership duty (the most recent on Postecoglou’s watch) and one suffered in a Scottish Cup tie a year ago. Not since between 1962 and 1965 have they endured a longer losing run at Ibrox. Across those years they succumbed to six straight defeats there in major competition, four of these in the league, with one in each of the cups.

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