Mark Atkinson reports from Ibrox.
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00:00Hello from Ibrox, Mark Atkinson here for the Scotsman where it's finished, Rangers 3 Celtic
00:070 in the second premiership Old Firm match of the season. A bit of a surprise result
00:13here in Govan. Rangers well worth their landslide victory over a decidedly out of sorts Celtic
00:20team. To be honest it couldn't be more, Celtic didn't lay a glove on Rangers for the whole
00:2690 minutes. I only remember Liam Kelly making one save. While Rangers poured forward and
00:32created numerous chances their goals did come through Yannis Hadji, Robin Propper and substitute
00:37Danilo. A really important win for Philippe Clement the manager, his first in an Old Firm
00:43match and given the number of players we're missing here without Jack Butland and James
00:47Tavernier and John Suter. Their backline ravaged with Ruben Yilvan playing right back, he's
00:53normally a left back of course and then a full back in Dujon Sterling a makeshift centre half.
00:58They all played really really well and kept Celtic extremely quiet indeed. Ibrox was back to its
01:04best in terms of support and the team they got right behind their players and once Hadji scored
01:09with a lovely left footed shot quite early on. You could sense that Celtic weren't really on it,
01:13their midfield trio in particular found it very hard to get control of the match. Captain Kelly
01:18never spoke about controlling the chaos pre-match but he was totally unable to do that and in
01:23certain quarters had some feisty moments picking up a yellow card. I don't think Celtic manager Brendan
01:27Rochford truly complains, he knows his team were soundly beaten today. They can take solace from
01:32the fact that they're still 11 points clear of Rangers in the title race. They've got plenty of
01:38cash in the bank you would say despite this result but we'll have to see how they react when
01:42they take on St Mirren next on Sunday. It's all about Rangers though, this result takes the
01:48pressure a little bit off Clement and gives him a really really important positive moment to
01:52cling on to after his injury or his injury depleted Rangers team were convincing 3-0
01:58winners over Celtic here at Blackhawks.