Philippe Clement, Rangers manager, is yet to win an Old Firm match and faces trepidation as his team prepares to host Celtic. Clement's lack of progress in nearly 15 months has led to a perception that he is an excuse-maker, and a victory against their rivals is crucial to proving his worth. Rangers supporters are demanding results and style, something Clement's team has yet to deliver.
Manager is yet to win an Old Firm match and success would help him to show he is making some progressPhilippe Clement can only hope the law of averages is due to swing in his favour. If not, the sense of an elongated, unsatisfactory conclusion to his spell as the manager of’s manager has presided over 16 wins in that run. Clement would be forgiven trepidation, then, as Rangers prepare to host their oldest foes. The Belgian is yet to defeat Celtic , having faced them half a dozen times.
Clement’s problem sits in an inability to capture hearts and minds. There are precious few traces of Rangers’ progress, almost 15 months into the 50-year-old’s tenure. This is why he desperately needs to defeat Celtic. The manager is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as an excuse-maker at a time when Rangers need straight-talking. They are 14 points adrift in the Premiership. Their domestic away form is awful given they spend far more than anyone other than Celtic.
Celtic's Daizen Maeda celebrates with team-mates after scoring the winning penalty in the Scottish League Cuo final on December 15th. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images Rodgers has had to bite back against the sense this fixture is a “dead rubber” for his players. Indeed, the derby remains as good as it gets on the domestic front for Celtic. It has been slightly comedic to hear Rodgers laud his players for recent wins over St Johnstone and Motherwell without any admission of the gulf between Celtic and such opposition. Think Tolstoy versus a toddler at Scrabble.
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