It’s been a good season so far for Celtic, unbeaten domestically, still in the hunt for the knock out stages of the Champions League and a nice piece of silverware added to Celtic Park Trophy room while the Blue room remains bare across the city. The rangers fans are getting giddy after Celtic dropped points away at Dundee United but there are no alarms bells ringing down Parkhead way.
There are still 6 points to play for before Celtic travel across the city to Ibrox for a 3pm kick off on Jan 02. Before then we have two home games against Motherwell (26 Dec) and St. Johnstone (29 Dec) while the rangers have two away games and travel to Paisley to take on St. Mirren (26 Dec) and Motherwell (29 Dec).
Motherwell sit in fourth place in the league and after watching Dundee United park the bus on Sunday may well come with the same tactics to the East End of Glasgow and try and frustrate Celtic.
The last time both teams met, Celtic had played midweek in the Champions League and took away a hard earned point against Atalanta. The result shut up a lot of Brendan Rodgers critics and the Celtic players had no European hangover when they travelled to Motherwell full of confidence.
Celtic ran out 3-0 winners with Luke McCowan opening the scoring on his first start in the Hoops. Stand in captain Alister Johnston headed in the second and Adam Idah stroked home the third from close range. I would expect Celtic to once again be too strong for the visitors and keep the festive cheer going.
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Enjoy Christmas Day and we will be back covering the Celtic fan journey on St. Stephens Day.
Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast
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