Derby defeat at home for Celtic | OneFootball

Scottish PremiershipSaturday, January 3, 2026Celtic Park

CELTIC…1(Yang 20)

RANGERS…3(Chermiti 50 & 59, Moore 73)

Celtic were defeated 3-1 by Rangers at Celtic Park this afternoon, with the away side finding scoring three times in the second half to win the match.

Early in the match, Arne Engels went down in some discomfort after feeling the effects of a flailing arm from Rangers’ Emmanuel Fernandez, though it was the Celtic man who was penalised for the foul.

The first chance of the match went the way of Celtic, with Johnny Kenny flashing a ball across the face of goal, but there were no takers in green and white to divert the ball in to the back of the net.

With just over 10 minutes gone, it looked as though Auston Trusty had given Celtic the lead that their early play would have deserved when he rose highest in the box to get his head to an Arne Engels’ corner, but the American’s headed effort drifted just wide of target.

Celtic were the team in control of the match and with 20 minutes gone, the goal that they had sought was delivered in stunning fashion by Yang.

The Korean received the ball from Benjamin Nygren on the right wing at least 35 yards out from goal and proceeded to weave his way in to Rangers’ penalty area before unleashing a thunderous strike in to the top corner to make it 1-0 to Celtic.

The visitors came close to levelling five minutes later when Djeidi Gassama went through on goal and fired a shot towards Kasper Schmeichel, but the Celtic keeper was equal to it and was able to touch it behind for a corner.

Jack Butland had to produce a smart save with just over half an hour of the match gone when Johnny Kenny sent a powerful effort towards the bottom corner which the visitors’ keeper done well to keep out.

The scoreline was level early in the second half when Chermiti got on to the end of a Nicolas Raskin cross which was fired across the face of goal, giving the forward a tap-in from a few yards out.

Daizen Maeda went close to re-establishing the Celtic lead almost immediately when he picked up a Luke McCowan pass inside the box, but his effort on the spin was saved by Butland.

Rangers went 2-1 ahead just before the hour mark, and once again it was Chermiti with the goal. This time he picked up the ball some distance from goal and drifted in to the box before firing a shot beyond Kasper Schmeichel.

Again, Daizen Maeda found himself with a chance to score almost immediately after the restart, though on this occasion, his powerful effort from inside the box went just wide of the far post.

With just over 20 minutes to go, Wilfried Nancy made his first change of the match, replacing Luke McCowan with Julián Araujo for his first appearance in a Celtic jersey after joining the club on loan from Bournemouth.

The away side extended their lead in the 73rd minute, with Mikey Moore sending a shot in to the bottom corner from just inside the box to consign Celtic to a 3-1 defeat.