Viaplay Cup final: Rangers 1-2 Celtic - Kyogo double delivers the trophy for holders

Kyogo knocks successful the opening extremity astatine Hampden

Kyogo Furuhashi scored doubly arsenic Celtic got the amended of Old Firm rivals Rangers astatine a tumultuous Hampden to clasp the Viaplay Cup.

Alfredo Morelos reduced the shortage but Rangers could not find a mode backmost against much assured opponents and Celtic missed opportunities to summation the borderline of triumph successful a frantic finish.

With a steadfast nine-point pb successful the league and conscionable 1 home decision each season, Celtic brag Ange Postecoglou is good placed to lucifer the treble of his debut campaign, portion fans volition beryllium dreaming of a 5th treble successful 7 years.

For Michael Beale, it was a archetypal nonaccomplishment successful 15 games successful complaint of Rangers, which leaves the Ibrox nine without a occurrence successful this tourney since 2011.

• Reaction & arsenic it happened

Amid the dependable and fury from the stands, Celtic started successful composed manner arsenic Rangers struggled to find a rhythm.

The biggest cheers from the febrile assemblage were reserved for robust challenges until Kyogo astir recovered a mode done connected 20 minutes.

The Celtic leader stumbled somewhat arsenic helium stole successful down and past recovered his way blocked by the sprawling Allan McGregor. The seasoned goalkeeper got up swiftly to propulsion distant a debased changeable from Jota.

Fashion Sakala provided a mates of menacing thrusts for Rangers earlier Cameron Carter-Vickers slid successful to sound a unsafe transverse from Ibrox skipper James Tavernier narrowly beyond his ain post.

Kyogo fired conscionable wide of the apical country from 18 yards, slashed astatine a bully accidental and headed implicit the apical successful a flurry of Celtic attacks earlier making the breakthrough connected 44 minutes.

Celtic patiently worked the shot down the near and, erstwhile Daizen Maeda missed Greg Taylor's driven walk astatine the beforehand post, Kyogo was each unsocial to changeable successful a elemental decorativeness from a cardinal position.

Rangers came wrong a whisker of a accelerated effect astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional erstwhile Ryan Kent drilled an angled changeable against the basal of the station and Sakala could lone find the side-netting from the rebound. The space was tight, but it was a atrocious miss from the winger, who had Morelos screaming for a pass.

Celtic made the astir of that let-off, with Kyogo knocking successful his 2nd extremity of the time soon after. Aaron Mooy and Reo Hatate combined to unlock the Rangers defence, with the second delivering the telling transverse for a sliding Kyogo to unit in.

Rangers hauled themselves backmost into the crippled connected 64 minutes erstwhile Morelos was alert to decorativeness arsenic Celtic failed to woody with a lofted free-kick from the left.

That breathed caller beingness into the squad successful blue, arsenic did a trio of midfield changes but they could not earnestly endanger Joe Hart's extremity again.

The lucifer grew progressively stretched and tetchy, with referee Nick Walsh dishing retired yellowish cards left, close and centre successful the closing stages.

With Rangers leaving immense gaps astatine the back, McGregor made a bully prevention to contradict Matt O'Riley and Oh Hyeon-gyu rolled a one-on-one accidental wide, but determination was to beryllium nary ruing those chances for Postecoglou's side.

More to follow.