The Rangers manager Danny Rohl has named his starting XI for this afternoon’s Scottish Cup quarter final at Ibrox against Celtic…

Danny Rohl and Martin O’Neill look on during the Scottish Premiership match between theRangers and Celtic at Ibrox on March 01, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Looking through the two sides there are NO Scots in the Rangers team starting today’s Glasgow Derby and visitors Celtic, without both the captain Callum McGregor and left-back Kieran Tierney, have on ONE Scottish player in the Celtic starting XI named by Martin O’Neill and that’s Luke McCowan who has the ‘big boots’ of Callum McGregor to fill.

The Rangers team is as follows:

Rangers starting XI: Butland, Sterling, Djiga, Fernandez, Rommens, Raskin, Diomande, Skov Olsen, Moore, Naderi, Chermiti. Subs: Kelly, Meghoma, Souttar, Tavernier, Chukwuani, Bajrami, Gassama, Aasgaard, Miovski

Here’s Danny Rohl speaking post match on the Ranger TV channel.

Celtic will be backed by just under 8,000 supporters in the Free Broomloan for the first time since Odsonne Edouard’s goal reduced the allocation to around 800 back in March 2018, the day the Celtic support calls Beautiful Sunday! The Celts line-up as follows:

Celtic starting XI: Sinisalo, Araujo, Arthur, Trusty, Scales, Hatate, McCowan, Nygren, Yang, Tounekti, Maeda. Subs: Doohan, Cvancara, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Bernardo, Mvuka, Saracchi, Murray, Forrest, Donovan

Celtic in the Thirties by Matt Corr. Click on image to order