Rangers vs Celtic: Ryan Jack's goal hands Brendan Rodgers first Old Firm derby defeat
Re-live the action from the Ibrox
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Your support makes all the difference.Brendan Rodgers’ Old Firm dominance as Celtic manager came to an end when Ryan Jack scored the only goal of the game to take Rangers level on points with their rivals at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
The former Liverpool manager has won 10 and drawn two of his 12 Old Firm derbies since joining Celtic, but Rangers’ long wait for a victory came to an end with a deserved victory at Ibrox.
After 30 minutes of dominance and missed opportunities, Jack converted Ryan Kent’s low cross to give Steven Gerrard’s side a deserved lead.
Celtic, backed by just 700 travelling supporters, failed to seriously test Allan McGregor in the Rangers goal and struggled to contain the home side’s surging attacks. Re-live the action below:
Rangers go close
21 mins
Alfredo Morelos wins Rangers their fifth corner of the game with a deflected shot from Dedryck Boyata.
Andy Halliday's ball is met by Connor Goldson who can't quite steer it towards goal.
24 mins
A big tackle on Scott Brown results in one of the loudest cheers of the afternoon so far. That aside, Rangers are doing a fine job to stop Celtic building up any kind of momentum as they look to play their way back into the game.
GOAL!!!
Rangers finally have their breakthrough!!!
Ryan Kent works his way to the byline with a sublime bit of footwork and pulls the ball back to Ryan Jack and side-foots the ball beyond Criag Gordon a Scott Brown deflection.
Ibrox errupts!
It's all Rangers
38 mins
Everything is still going Rangers' way and Ryan Kent goes close again with a curling effort from the right.
Meanwhile, Allan McGregor in the opposite goal has had absolutely nothing to do so far.
His race is run
45 mins
Filip Benkovic pulls up after a short run and is replaced by Kristoffer Ajer as we enter two minutes of added time.
45+2 mins
Mikael Lustig is the first into the book for a late challenge on Daniel Candeias
Rangers 1-0 Celtic
Rangers are great value for their lead at the break and may feel a bit unlucky not to be at least two goals up.
Their game plan worked perfectly in the first half, Celtic were unable to establish any kind of passing momentum and Rangers were attacking with real intent when they worked their way forward.
Second half is underway!
Ralston is on for Celtic and Forest comes off.
How has it not gone in!
47 mins
Sunday league stuff all round! Boyata gets caught sleeping at the back and has the ball pinched off him by Kent. The forward trots into the box and can't beat Gordon when one-on-one.
The ball breaks for Rangers and they can't get a shot away until Arfield swings a boot at it and Boyata clears off the line.
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