Celtic nonetheless want two wins to safe the Scottish Premiership title after struggling a shock 1-0 defeat at rock-bottom St Johnstone.
Daniels Balodis shocked the champions-elect with a fourth-minute header from Graham Carey’s scrumptious free-kick supply to inflict solely a fourth loss within the league on Brendan Rodgers’ facet.
Rangers’ 2-0 defeat at house to Hibernian on Saturday left Celtic realizing they may have wrapped the title up at house to Kilmarnock subsequent weekend earlier than the fixture cut up had they overwhelmed St Johnstone – however they failed to attain for the third time within the league this season.
St Johnstone goalkeeper Andy Fisher was excellent in conserving Celtic out whereas Stephen Duke-McKenna made a vital interception to cease Nicolas Kuhn from equalising within the first half.
Daizen Maeda was denied by Fisher from a good angle after latching onto a unfastened again move within the opening interval though Celtic goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo did have to avoid wasting from a curling Duke-McKenna shot.
Rodgers introduced on Hyun-Jun Yang and Greg Taylor at half time which helped the guests dominate the second interval.
Reo Hatate smashed an effort off the left publish earlier than blazing over when well-positioned within the field earlier than Fisher took centre stage late on.
The goalkeeper made a superb, sprawling save all the way down to his proper to parry substitute James Forrest’s close-range shot after which denied Luke McCowan in harm time.
St Johnstone are actually six factors adrift of security whereas Celtic stay 13 factors away from Rangers.
Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant
Andy Fisher has been a busy boy for St Johnstone however he produces one other sensible save as they defend a 1-0 lead at house to Celtic
