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The Football Show · 14 September 2026
Rangers 'bullied' Celtic from start to finish as McInnes gets tactics spot on - Tam McManus breaks down how Derek McInnes' tactics won Rangers their 3-0 win over Celtic, from Penrice's midfield overload to Gassama exploiting the space left out wide against Donovan. He argues Rangers dominated throughout and could easily have scored five or six.
Rangers bullied Celtic from start to finish as Derek McInnes got his tactics spot on in a 3-0 Old Firm win in the Premier Sports Cup at Ibrox - the panel on how Rangers dominated the champions.
Transcript:
Yeah, I just thought Rangers bullied Celtic from start to finish. I think that Derek got his tactics spot on. He surprised Celtic by pushing Penrose in one in the middle of the park, creating overload in there. Went man for man at the back.
He had three real athletes there at the back, McKenna, Fernandez, and Sterling. And I think the guys dominated Celtics front three. And with Penrose going inside, it left a big gap there for Gassama to peel out. And they just pulled it out of Gassama. He ran at Donovan all day.
And I thought that's where the game was won and lost. I thought that in that area Rangers dominated. I thought the front two for Rangers got after Celtics back back too. I thought they they held the ball up. Naderi when McGregor was dropped in dropped into him.
I just thought tactically from start to finish, Rangers were brilliant and they thoroughly deserved to to win three nothing. Like as Alex said, I could have been five or six. It was an absolute tanking and uh and the Celtic supporters will be concerned at that performance.
But if you're a Ranger supporter and you doubted Derek McInnes...
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