Kevin van Veen derails Celtic tune up for Rangers semi final as Motherwell blemish Ange home record - 3 talking points

Celtic's Premiership title precession hit a bump on the road after Kevin van Veen pounced to wreck Ange Postecoglou’s perfect Parkhead record.

The Motherwell striker stunned the home crowd with a second half leveller to cancel out Callum McGregor’s opener to become the first side to take points off the league leaders on their own patch all season.

The Hoops were left huffing and puffing against Stuart Kettlewell’s superbly drilled side and they still need another two wins to stick green and white ribbons on the trophy. Celtic were without injured Jota, Liel Abada and Reo Hatate – and Postecoglou will be hoping at least one of them will be fit to face Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-finals next weekend after a frustrating afternoon on league duty.

The Steelmen put in an unbelievable shift to claim their point. They flew out of the traps and had a couple of great chances inside the opening couple of minutes.

Keven van Veen sneaked in behind but couldn’t get past Joe Hart from a tight angle and then Calum Butcher fired over from the corner, but it was a real statement of intent. Celtic – with Reo Hatate still out – took a while to get used to a tweak in the system with Tomoki Iwata alongside Callum McGregor again but they gradually took charge.

McGregor curled one over the top and the clipped a ball in behind fro Daizen Maeda, which Liam Kelly did well to beat away before Alistair Johnston’s drilled low cross was inches away from being turned in. Well got through the opening 20 minutes but the bulged just another four later though when McGregor let rip from 30 yards and his fierce daisy-cutter clipped off Dan Casey on the way into the bottom corner.

It was nearly two when Maeda slid in to get on the end of Sead