Cameron Carter-Vickers and Carl Starfelt.
I made it crystal clear before the game at Ibrox that those two were going to have to be outstanding for Celtic to win.
Both players were every bit as good as they needed to be.
In fact, they were even better with one of them coming up with a winning goal.
Carter-Vickers and Starfelt were asked time and time again to defend their box. To cope with set plays, to match the Rangers strength in those situations.
Time and again they came up with the answers. Time and again they put a head on things. They got a block in. They hustled and harried a striker.
Kemar Roofe might not have given them as stiff a test as Alfredo Morelos may have done, but who is to say they wouldn’t have handled him as well?
There was no clean sheet, but that wasn’t really their doing. They were left exposed when Josip Juranovic got caught with a ball inside.
But from that point they were superb and gave Celtic the type of backbone which they have lacked in some of the recent matches against Rangers, especially at Ibrox.
I have to tip my hat to Ange Postecoglou. He got the huge pre-match calls correct.
When I thought about a Celtic starting line-up, there were two positions that I wasn’t sure about. The first was midfield and the choice between Tom Rogic and Matt O’Riley.
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