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The National (Scotland)
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James McLaughlin

Unseen Brendan Rodgers moment summed up Celtic vs Rangers - Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart watched Brendan Rodgers' reaction to his team's Premier Sports Cup Final victory over Rangers from the pundit gantry and saw a picture that spoke a thousand words.

The Celtic boss turned from the pitch, looked out to his family and let out a sigh of relief.

The Irishman had just watched his team take part in a pulsating match with the great Glasgow rivals only separated by the lottery of penalty kicks after a 3-3 draw.

And Stewart reckons the whole encounter was summed up by Rodgers' solitary gesture.


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He said on Premier Sports: "What sums it up is when that final whistle went we were standing watching Brendan Rodgers. He turned to his family and he just puffed out his cheeks. That summed it up. They just got over the line there.

"Credit to Rangers. Philippe Clement has been under intense pressure and you heard people say there have been green shoots. They have to use this as motivation because they were close there.

"They are a mile behind in the league at the moment but they need to give that sort of performance every week and the fans will get behind that. I thought they were very good, Rangers."

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