Celtic 3-2 Rangers: result and report

Premiership · Saturday 8 April 2023

Result

Celtic 3-2 Rangers

Premiership · Saturday 8 April 2023, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Celtic 3-2 Rangers: match report

Celtic defeated Rangers 3-2 in the Premiership on Saturday 8 April 2023. The half-time score was 1-1.

Kyogo Furuhashi opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Celtic's goals came from Kyogo Furuhashi (26'), Kyogo Furuhashi (62') and Jota (73'). Rangers scored through James Tavernier (45') and James Tavernier (78').

Discipline: Celtic received 4 yellow cards; Rangers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Celtic were 1st on 85 points from 30 and Rangers 2nd on 76 points from 30. Celtic went on to finish that season 1st with 99 points, and Rangers 2nd with 92.

Celtic lined up in a 4-3-3 and Rangers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jota of Celtic (9.1), ahead of Kyogo Furuhashi (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Celtic win, 1 draw and 0 for Rangers.

Going into the match Celtic's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Rangers's W-W-W-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Yellow card · Cameron Carter-VickersCeltic
  • 26'Goal · Kyogo FuruhashiCeltic · 1-0
  • 39'Yellow card · Callum McGregorCeltic
  • 39'Yellow card · N. RaskinRangers
  • 44'Yellow card · M. O'RileyCeltic
  • 45'Goal · James TavernierRangers · 1-1
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Todd CantwellRangers
  • 47'Yellow card · Aaron MooyCeltic
  • 62'Goal · Kyogo FuruhashiCeltic · 2-1
  • 73'Goal · JotaCeltic · 3-1
  • 78'Goal · James TavernierRangers · 3-2

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Celtic 1, draws 1, Rangers 0.

Team news

Celtic line-up (4-3-3)

Joe Hart, Alistair Johnston, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Carl Starfelt, Greg Taylor, Aaron Mooy, Callum McGregor, Matt O'Riley, Jota, Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda

Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Allan McGregor, James Tavernier, John Souttar, Ben Davies, Giancarlo Riolfo, Ryan Jack, Nicolas Raskin, Todd Cantwell, Malik Tillman, Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos