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Alfredo Morelos broke his scoring duck against Celtic as champions Rangers left Parkhead with a 1-1 draw and their unbeaten Scottish Premiership run intact.<\/p>\nAlfredo Morelos broke his scoring duck against Celtic as champions Rangers left Parkhead with a 1-1 draw and their unbeaten Scottish Premiership run intact.<\/p>\n
Hoops attacker Mohamed Elyounoussi headed in an Odsonne Edouard cross in the 23rd minute before the Gers striker levelled in the 38th minute, also with a header.<\/p>\n
It was his first goal against Celtic at the 15th time of asking and it proved, along with a fine performance by Allan McGregor, to be enough make it 33 league games unbeaten and keep the 20-point gap between the teams.<\/p>\n
Interim Hoops manager John Kennedy, who stepped up when Neil Lennon resigned last month, wanted to put down a marker and his side certainly did that albeit they will have to look to next season in terms of making amends in the league.<\/p>\n
The draw came at the end of a traumatic week for the Ibrox men in which they were knocked out of the Europa League by Slavia Prague with midfielder Glen Kamara claiming he was subject to a racist slur by Ondrej Kudela.<\/p>\n
Celtic skipper Scott Brown had a quick word with Kamara in the build-up and the Hoops players, like their Ibrox counterparts, chose not to take the knee before kick-off in support of the Finland international.<\/p>\n
Substitutes, management and backroom staff of both clubs stood along the touchline in solidarity.<\/p>\n
Traditional rivalries then commenced, albeit it was unusually tame in the early stages.<\/p>\n
The visitors, with Filip Helander and Ianis Hagi in for Nathan Patterson and Scott Arfield, started confidently enough but gradually Celtic, unchanged, began to impose themselves.<\/p>\n
Callum McGregor, after working a one-two with defender Stephen Welsh, cleared the bar with a drive from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n
The Parkhead midfielder was involved in the goal, sending Edouard down the left flank with a pin-point pass and when the Frenchman flighted the ball across the six-yard box past Helander, Elyounoussi\u2019s header beat McGregor.<\/p>\n
As Celtic took control, referee Willie Collum booked Edouard for diving in the box after a sliding challenge by Gers left-back Borna Barisic before Ibrox keeper McGregor had to block a close-range drive from his Celtic namesake with his foot.<\/p>\n
Then Rangers struck. Morelos\u2019 landmark goal came after right-back Jonjoe Kenny\u2019s long back pass to keeper Scott Bain went out for a corner.<\/p>\n
Barisic\u2019s out swinging delivery was headed on by defender Leon Balogun and the Colombia striker nipped in at the back post to head into an empty net.<\/p>\n
A flurry of activity followed. Edouard was played in by Elyounoussi but McGregor stopped the striker\u2019s close-range shot at the second attempt, and at the other end, Bain saved a drive from Ryan Kent.<\/p>\n
McGregor then saved an Elyounoussi header from a David Turnbull corner as Celtic finished the half strongly.<\/p>\n
An early second-half corner from Turnbull was headed over by Welsh and McGregor dived to keep out a 25-yard drive from Edouard.<\/p>\n
Patterson replaced Balogun and Arfield soon came on for Hagi by which time the home side were pushing hard to regain their lead.<\/p>\n
Celtic racked up more chances. In the 71st minute McGregor used his foot again to deny Turnbull\u2019s low angled-drive before Edouard headed the corner over the bar.<\/p>\n
Kemar Roofe replaced Morelos and Scott Wright came on for Joe Aribo as the visitors, who were offering little in attack, tried to get a foothold in the game.<\/p>\n
Celtic substitute James Forrest took over from Turnbull and Tom Rogic came on for Elyounoussi before Edouard missed a cross from Kenny by inches, another change going a-begging for the home side.<\/p>\n
Gers center-back Connor Goldson headed a Barisic corner over the bar in added time.<\/p>\n