14 Points Clear at New Year

It has been a great year for Celtic and they signed off on 2024 with a 4-0 win over St. Johnstone. Goals from Nicholas Kuhn and Daizen Maeda and a double from Kyogo made it a very happy new year for the Celtic support.

While Celtic were romping to victory the rangers were sharing the points away to Motherwell drawing 2-2. The gap is now 14 points between the Glasgow rivals ahead of the derby game at Ibrox on Thursday.

In 2024 Celtic lifted every domestic trophy on offer and they now sit proudly in the Celtic Park trophy room while the blue room is bare. The Champions will now travel with plenty of confidence across the city to face the rangers after dominating against St. Johnstone.

The blue half of the city remains in meltdown after dropping more points ahead of the big game at their place. Brendan Rodgers was able to rotate the team again and rested captain Callum McGregor.

Alistair Johnston returned to starting Celtic 11. The Celtic manager has plenty of food for thought as to which 3 midfield players will start against the rangers after another MOTM performance from Engels. Yang also deserves to be singled out for praise after his efforts on both wings.

Celtic have now kept six consecutive clean sheets and Schmeichel  showed again today just how good his distribution can be. Like all Celtic fans the great Dane will be really looking forward to the game at Ibrox.

We have plenty to look forward to in 2025 with European Football in January and hopefully beyond, the defence of the Scottish Cup and no one would back against Celtic not lifting another League title.

14 Points Clear at New Year

Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast