Todd Cantwell inspires Rangers to Celtic romp as Beale breaks derby duck amid Ibrox dominance - 5 talking points

Talisman Todd Cantwell inspired Rangers to an emphatic win over Celtic as Michael Beale’s team finally put a year of derby despair to bed.

Ange Postecoglou’s newly-crowned kings of Scotland arrived at Glasgow a week on from picking up their second straight Premiership crown looking to extend their run of Old Firm rampage to seven games without defeat. But those hopes were smashed within six minutes as former Norwich ace Cantwell gave the pumped up home support just what they were looking for.

Another goal just after the half-hour mark from John Souttar gave the Light Blues breathing space before erratic hitman Fashion Sakala for once kept his cool to round off Beale’s first win over the Hoops since his November appointment. The result won’t affect Celtic and their Treble charge - which will be decided on June 3 when the league and Viaplay Cup winners take on Inverness in the Scottish Cup final.

But it will renew Rangers’ reserves of self-belief before a huge summer in which Beale will attempt a major overhaul of his squad. And it’s a performance that saw January recruit Cantwell underline his burgeoning status as the main man for new boss Beale.

There was nothing on the line as the teams met for the sixth and final time this season but you wouldn’t have known by the way the hosts erupted out the traps. Beale’s men swarmed over the champions, desperate to force an error that might lead to the breakthrough.

And it took them just six minutes to get what they were after. Cantwell, the only Ibrox player to have shown any form of defiance in the last couple of dispiriting derby defeats, was again the man that took the fight Celtic.

Spraying the ball out to Sakala, the former Norwich man darted his way forward, breaking into