Old Firm Derby Ends 2-2 as Celtic Comeback Stuns Rangers

Rangers blow 2-0 lead, Celtic equalize in dramatic fashion

Celtic's Reo Hatate scores a dramatic 91st-minute penalty to secure a 2-2 draw with Rangers, keeping Hearts at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Hatate's late penalty salvages point for Celtic against Rangers...

Celtic snatched a dramatic 2-2 draw against Rangers in the Old Firm derby, with Reo Hatate scoring a late penalty to rescue a point for the visitors. The drama-filled match saw Rangers lead 2-0 at half-time through Youssef Chermiti's stunning double, but Celtic fought back to level the score.

Hearts remain the real winners, topping the Scottish Premiership table as Rangers drop six points behind them. Celtic, meanwhile, stay second, two points off Rangers with a game in hand.

Rangers got off to a flying start as Chermiti scored a stunning overhead kick from Andreas Skov Olsen's cross after just eight minutes.

"At the moment, the feeling ‌is more disappointment because you dropped two points after a 2-0 lead,” Rangers coach Danny Rohl told BBC.

"It's always a little bit lucky for a team to get a late penalty. This is normal, I would say it's the same when we ‌get a penalty late in the game.”

Celtic's defense looked shaky again, and Chermiti capitalized in the 26th minute, pouncing on a loose ball to score Rangers' second.

Celtic transformed after half-time, pulling one back in the 56th minute through Kieran Tierney, who nodded in Benjamin Nygren's cross. Hope was back on the cards for the visitors.

“When we came out for the second half, we were a totally different team. We're unlucky not to get all the points ‌in the end,” Tierney told Sky Sports.

“We let ourselves down first half, it wasn't how we wanted to play. Second half, we showed the character. We're here for this ongoing fight.”

Rangers' goalkeeper Jack Butland made some incredible saves, but Celtic's persistence paid off when VAR awarded them a penalty in the 91st minute after Dujon Sterling handled the ball in the box. Reo Hatate stepped up to take the penalty, and despite Butland saving his first two attempts, Hatate scored on the third try, securing a remarkable 2-2 draw for Celtic.

The drama-filled match saw Rangers lead 2-0 at halftime thanks to Youssef Chermiti's stunning goals, but Celtic fought back strongly in the second half. Kieran Tierney pulled one back in the 56th minute, and Hatate's late penalty equalizer capped an incredible comeback.

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“It was obviously a great game. We were well ‌and truly second best in the first half, for almost all of it. They got off to a great start,” Celtic boss Martin O'Neill told the BBC.

“The second half belonged to us, and we got an equaliser which we thoroughly deserved.

“If you're 2-0 down at half-time, you have to question ⁠yourself. I spend my life questioning ⁠myself, to tell you the ‌truth. But anyway, we turned it around second half.”