It’s extraordinary how quiet nearly 50,000 people can be. Ibrox, a place of unending noise all night, fell silent five minutes from the end when Cyriel Dessers turned inside Archie Gray...Suddenly, it was about as boisterous as a mouse tip-toeing around a library full of an order of silent monks.
The Rangers striker is hardly one of those, but the save was valuable all the same. Fair to say that a point, rather than the three they would have expected, didn't do a whole lot to put smiles on Spurs' faces, but the alternative would have been ghastly for the visitors.
You have to imagine that Ange Postecoglou was in the ears of his Tottenham players all week, telling them of the dangers of Ibrox, warning them that there was a battle ahead. For all his dominance as Celtic manager, Postecoglou won only one of four times in this place.
For how long could they impose their intensity? Then Pedro Porro was done by Jefte and Raskin, again, brushed off Yves Bissouma. Spurs were nowhere near the pitch of it. They looked weak. Soft. Unprepared.
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