Motherwell 3-2 Win Leaves Rangers Four Points Off Top — Celtic Score
Motherwell beat Rangers 3-2 at Ibrox, and the celtic score from the title race tightened again. Rangers finished the afternoon in third place, four points behind the Scottish Premiership leaders, with a Monday visit to Hearts now carrying extra weight.
Ibrox After Half-Time
Rangers were two goals down at half-time before Danny Rohl changed from a 4-2-2-2 to a 4-3-3 and sent on Mohamed Diomande and Mikey Moore. The switch gave Rangers a better foothold, but they still left without points after Motherwell held the lead through to 3-2.
Motherwell had outnumbered Rangers in midfield in the first half, and that imbalance showed up in the scoreline. Rohl’s preferred 4-2-2-2 had helped Rangers beat the leaders 4-2 in February, but this time the same shape was exposed early at Ibrox.
Hearts, Celtic and Sunday’s Pressure
The result sits inside an unusually tight race at the top. Celtic beat Falkirk 3-1 24 hours before the Rangers-Motherwell match, and Hearts fought back to beat nine-man Hibernian in the Edinburgh derby.
If Celtic beat Hibernian on Sunday at 12:00, Rangers will have a four-point gap to close on Celtic as well as Hearts. That leaves Tuesday’s window shut before it opens, and the trip to Tynecastle on Monday at 17:30 BST becomes the next live test of whether Rangers can keep pace.
Rohl’s System Under Strain
Rohl’s setup still has familiar strengths. Ryan Naderi and Tuur Rommens are key cogs in his preferred system, and the February win over the leaders showed why he has kept returning to it.
But Motherwell, guided by Jens Berthel Askou, found the weakness in it at Ibrox and turned a one-game swing into a standings problem for Rangers. Third place is the immediate cost, and the margin to the top is already thin enough that one defeat has changed the pace of the chase.
