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What happened to the last Rangers team to beat Celtic in a League Cup Final?

Rangers and Celtic will do battle at Hampden Park this weekend for the first domestic silverware of the season.

The Premier Sports Cup is up for grabs and, after a season sitting in the trophy cabinet at Ibrox, Celtic will be determined to reclaim the trophy they have won seven times in the past decade. Rangers meanwhile are the tournament's most successful club, but to lift the cup once again they will need to do something they haven't achieved since 2011 - defeat their Old Firm rivals in the competition's final.

Sunday's game will be just the third League Cup final between the two clubs since 2011, with Celtic winning both previous matches, 1-0 in 2019 thanks to a Christopher Jullien goal and 2-1 four years later courtesy of a Kyogo Furuhashi brace that gave Ange Postecoglou his first taste of silverware in the Scottish game. With Brendan Rodgers' Bhoys unbeaten domestically this season, Rangers will go into the game as second favourites - aiming to replicate the achievements of the class of 2011.

Here Record Sport delves into the archive to see what happened to the 11 starting players who helped Walter Smith's men to glory 13 years ago.

A player who experienced all the highs and lows of a tumultuous period in Rangers' history, three time Scotland cap Alexander was chosen between the sticks ahead of Allan McGregor. The League Cup final would be one of just seven appearances he would make for the club in 2010-11. He remained McGregor's trusty deputy the following season - before taking the club's number one shirt for 2012-13, playing 47 times as Ally McCoist guided Rangers to the Third Division title. From there Alexander made the unusual career move from the Scottish fourth tier to English Premier League, joining

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