Rangers-tipped Motherwell striker Kevin van Veen helps the Steelmen stop Celtic in their tracks and force the Ibrox club’s fans to lament their side’s shaky form.
Injuries and questions of mentality have rocked Rangers’ season and the club have quite simply failed in their attempts to put up enough of a fight against a rampant Celtic.
But Motherwell showed that our Old Firm rivals are not quite the Gallowgate Galácticos the media would you have believe by forcing a 1-1 Premiership draw at Celtic Park.
Kevin van Veen had been mentioned alongside both Rangers and Celtic earlier in the week by former Well boss Graeme Alexander and showed why at Parkhead.
The striker netted his 24th goal of a productive season to share the spoils in Glasgow’s eastend, the second half striker cancelling out a first-half opener from Callum McGregor.
Kevin van Veen helps Motherwell where Rangers couldn’t help themselves
The point extends Celtic’s Premiership lead to 13 ahead of Rangers’ trip to Pittodrie but it is all too little too late for a Rangers team which has been leaving fans sick all season long.
Rangers’ bottle crashed long before the Kevin Clancy impacted Celtic Park defeat last weekend, with that run of two draws and a defeat against Livingston, St Mirren and St Johnstone respectively endint the club’s title pursuit before it had begun.
Conceding late in that 2-2 Old Firm draw at Ibrox – defensive errors the hallmark of this shaky and confidence ravaged side – also cost the club any glimmer of hope regarding post-Van Bronckhorst domestic redemption.
The draw with Motherwell suggests that Kevin van Veen is certainly worth at least considering for Rangers, with the striker helping Well achieve more than what our chicken-livered outfit have at Celtic Park recently.
But it‘s a reminder that had Rangers managed to keep the pace with their rivals then heading into the final few games of the season, Celtic might have actually had to feel the pressure of this wobble.
