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Josh McCafferty

How Rangers can end 28-year wait against Celtic at Ibrox this weekend

Rangers can end a 28-year wait for three consecutive league victories over Celtic on Sunday. 

Brendan Rodgers takes his side across the city for the final meeting between the sides this season. 

Rangers have won the last two derbies. Ianis Hagi, Robin Propper and Danilo all scored in an impressive 3-0 win at New Year before goals from Nicolas Raskin, Mohamed Diomande, and Hamza Igamane helped Barry Ferguson's men beat Celtic in their own backyard in March. 


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This weekend, Rangers can therefore make it three wins in a row over their great rivals in the league for the first time since the 1996/97 season - almost three decades ago. 

Interim boss Ferguson was quizzed on the matter yesterday: "I'm feeling old once you say that," he said. 

"Yeah, far too long. But look, we know that we're coming up against. Celtic, they've been strong and consistent. That's one thing about them. We have not been that throughout the season. 

"The last couple of games, yeah, we've performed and got results, but it's not really got us anywhere. It needs to be, week by week, we need to make sure that we put the levels of performance on. 

"I'm expecting a big performance from us because we know coming here, they'll not be happy with what happened in the last two games. So we need to be ready and prepared. We've done all the preparation we can this week. 

"We know what way we're going to approach it, we know what way we're going to set up. These are the games you've got to be looking forward to, not just as a manager and coaching staff, but as a playing staff as well."

Kick-off on Sunday is at midday, with the action live on Sky Sports

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