Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SUSPECTED CONN JOB..
Standard Liege Rangers
Thursday,5.55pm
CONNOR GOLDSON last night revealed Rangers refused to believe the leaked Celtic team news that sparked Neil Lennon’s fury on Saturday.
Hoops boss Lennon has started an internal probe into how his line-up, which included young Stephen Welsh in for injured Christopher Jullien and no place for Odsonne Edouard, was plastere plastered all over the inter internet hours before kic kick-off. But Goldson, w who scored the two R Rangers goals that se sealed a co comfortable victory (in (inset) for Steven Gerr Gerrard’s men, insisted he and his teammates ignored the early heads-up because they didn’t believe it.
The Ibrox defender said: “We never believed it. Even in our pre-match meeting, we thought Edouard would play and we thought Jullien would play. “A few of us had seen the team but we didn’t really believe it. We know that in an Old Firm you can never trust anything that comes out. “One day someone is injured and the next they’re playing. Listen, every player wants to play in an Old Firm.
“Whether they are injured or not they’ll try and get through it, so we CRUNCH AC
Milan manager went into Stefano Pioli will the face Celtic on game Thursday night thinking Jullien and Edouard would play. Truthfully, I got on a coach and I had a message from one of my best mates down south who plays for Doncaster and he said Welsh was playing and Edouard isn’t playing.
“I said, ‘Yeah good one, we’ll see when we get there’. “Obviously when we got there, the team was true but I don’t know how he knew, playing down south, but he was the only person who texted me.”
With Rangers four points clear at the top of the Premiership, Goldson is urging his team-mates to maintain the focus and intensity that brought their rewards at Celtic Park.
Speaking on Talksport, he added: This season against the other teams we’ve been a lot better. We’ve shown our consistency. We need to carry that on.”