Five reasons why Graeme Souness is wrong to say Rangers are better than Celtic

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Graeme Souness has claimed that Rangers are better than Celtic. Simply put, he is wrong.

Souness and the Rangers contingent love to kid themselves into thinking they are in the ascendency and that all of the turmoil at Celtic has left ourselves in the dark, as proved by his recent interview with the Daily Record.

Yes there are tensions between the fans and the board, yes Celtic have had three managers this season; however, Souness needs to realise that his claim is wrong and 67 Hail Hail have five reasons to dispel his theory.

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Why are Celtic better away from home this season?

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The Scottish Premiership league table

Let’s start out with the obvious one: the league table.

At the time of writing, the Bhoys sit second in the table, one point ahead of Rangers and two behind league leaders Hearts.

The position in the table doesn’t lie and right now, Martin O’Neill’s side sit above Danny Rohl’s team. If they were better, they’d be above us, wouldn’t they?

Position	Team	Played MP	Won W	Drawn D	Lost L	For GF	Against GA	Diff GD	Points Pts
1	Heart Of MidlothianHeart Of Midlothian	30	19	6	5	52	25	27	63
2	CelticCeltic	30	19	4	7	56	32	24	61
3	RangersRangers	30	16	12	2	52	25	27	60
4	MotherwellMotherwell	30	14	11	5	49	23	26	53
5	HibernianHibernian	30	12	11	7	48	35	13	47
6	FalkirkFalkirk	30	12	7	11	38	38	0	43
7	Dundee UtdDundee Utd	30	7	13	10	38	48	-10	34
8	DundeeDundee	30	8	8	14	31	48	-17	32
9	AberdeenAberdeen	30	8	6	16	30	42	-12	30
10	St MirrenSt Mirren	30	5	9	16	23	46	-23	24

Celtic’s record against Rangers in the 2025/26 season

Rangers did beat Celtic once this season in a game that ultimately saw Wilfried Nancy sacked, but that is there only victory from the five meetings.

One of the dullest 0-0 draws was played out in August while O’Neill was able to produce a masterstroke in the Premier Sports Cup semi-final.

Another draw, this time a 2-2 contest that saw Reo Hatate equalise late from the penalty spot before winning in the Scottish Cup a week later.

Considering this Celtic side is known as one of the weakest in recent years, the fact that this Rangers side, who is supposedly ‘better’ than them, can only beat them once doesn’t really back up Souness’ point.

Celtic have more goals despite striker struggles

Goals have been a huge issue in Celtic’s game this season. Benjamin Nygren is outperforming his xG and closing in on 20 in all competitions, but nobody else is firing on all cylinders.

Despite that, the Hoops have more goals (56) than the amount of goals Rangers have scored (52) in the league.

To make matters worse, the Hoops haven’t spent a penny on a striker, whereas Rangers have spent almost £20m on the likes of Youssef Chermiti, Ryan Naderi and Bojan Miovski.

Celtic’s recruitment has been questioned, but to spend that much and have less goals than a midfielder is pretty embarrassing.

Celtic are better when Benjamin Nygren plays 🤨

Should Martin O'Neill be focusing the team around him so that he scores even more goals?

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Celtic’s recent trophy success makes a mockery of Rangers

All we seem to hear is that the gap between Rangers and Celtic isn’t that far away, but let’s not kid ourselves.

Since 2012, the Hoops have won 26 major domestic honours in comparison to the three Rangers have won.

Celtic are the most successful team in Scotland and while the contests on the pitch may have been close fought, there are levels to this game and Rangers are nowhere near them. The fact that St Mirren could equal their total of three major honours since 2012 says it all.

Graeme Souness prefers to focus on stats, not the scoreboard

Throughout his piece, Souness tries to cope with the recent defeat by saying that Rangers had more of the ball and claiming that there was ‘only one team who looked like they were going to win it’. Guess what Graeme? It wasn’t Rangers.

Having more of the ball and 24 shots on goal is all well and good, but that doesn’t change the fact that Rangers still lost the game.

Nobody outside of Ibrox will care, or remember that; they will only remember Tomas Cvancara converting the winning spot-kick in front of the Copeland stand.