Rangers blink but twists still to come in colossal title race
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This season more than any other, one learns not to make predictions - or make them and be prepared to look daft. A helicopter Saturday is far from an outlandish thought and the more the cut and …
This season more than any other, one learns not to make predictions - or make them and be prepared to look daft. A helicopter Saturday is far from an outlandish thought and the more the cut and thrust continues the more goal difference becomes part of the conversation. Hearts' column sits at 31, Celtic's at 26 and Rangers' at 34. If there is a sense that the league could be decided in the final minutes of the season then there's good reason for that. Between the three of them, critically important goals have been scored in the final 10 minutes, the final minutes and beyond the 90th minute in 27 different matches. Hearts have won games in the 94th minute, 91st minute, 91st minute again, 88th minute, 87th minute and 86th minute. They've snatched a draw in the 83rd minute and 87th minute. The flip side is that they've dropped points in the 90th minute and the 88th minute. Celtic, too, have a well earned reputation for digging it out, for overcoming frustration and winning games that they look like drawing. Resilience in other words. They've won league games in the 91st minute twice, the 92nd minute, the 95th minute, the 96th minute and the 97th minute. They've also conceded an equaliser in the 87th minute and a winner also in the 87th minute. Over the score, they have a net gain of 14 points in those game-turning minutes of Premiership matches. Rangers score more goals from the 90th minute and beyond than anybody else but some of those are just decoration. …
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