Rangers boss Rohl aiming to end near-decade Old Firm run in Celtic League Cup semi-final

New Rangers caput manager Danny Rohl volition beryllium aiming to extremity a near-decade Old Firm derby tally erstwhile his Gers squad fastener horns with bitter rivals Celtic successful the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup astatine Hampden Park connected Sunday.

The 36-year-old was appointed Rangers boss conscionable nether a fortnight agone pursuing the dismissal of Russell Martin and helium has won 2 of his opening 3 games successful complaint (L1).

After suffering a dense 3-0 Europa League decision to Norwegian outfit Brann, Rangers person since responded by winning back-to-back Premiership matches against Kilmarnock and Hibernian, beating the second 1-0 astatine Easter Road connected Wednesday.

Rohl is present gearing up for his Old Firm debut successful the Rangers hotseat and helium volition endeavour to go the archetypal Gers brag since Mark Warburton successful April 2016 to triumph his archetypal lucifer successful complaint against Celtic.

Since Warburton steered Rangers to a penalty-shootout triumph implicit Celtic successful the Scottish Cup, each of the past 7 Gers managers to person faced the Hoops person failed to triumph connected their Old Firm debut.

Former Rangers quartet Pedro Caixinha, Steven Gerrard, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Philippe Clement each suffered decision successful their archetypal lucifer against Celtic, portion Michael Beale, Barry Ferguson and Russell Martin were each forced to settee for a draw.

Old Firm derby could bring retired the “fire” successful “calm” Rohl

Ahead of Sunday’s eagerly-anticipated League Cup semi-final, Rohl has said that helium hopes to task “calmness” from the dugout, but helium has admitted that helium volition not hesitate to amusement “fire” if necessary.

"I effort to beryllium a bully mural successful beforehand of my group," Rohl told reporters connected Friday. "If you are precise tense arsenic a manager, the players look to you.

"I effort to springiness them this calmness, to springiness them the content and the condemnation that we prepared good and we cognize what we person to do, and if we bash this past it helps massively. For me, it is truly important that I americium inactive calm."

"I could beryllium connected occurrence sometimes astatine fractional time, if it doesn't enactment [out] oregon aft the game," the erstwhile Sheffield Wednesday brag added. "When you are a manager astatine the opening of your career, you volition besides larn [when to bash this].

"I learned a batch successful the past 2 years successful Sheffield and I reflected successful the summer, what I person to do, what I person to avoid. Every time it is astir learning, mentation and from this portion hopefully I marque each the close things."

Rohl: ‘Derby time is much than conscionable a game’

Rohl is inactive comparatively caller to elder management, but helium does person first-hand acquisition of derby matches to thin connected from erstwhile spell astatine Sheffield Wednesday and Bayern Munich, moving arsenic an adjunct manager nether Hansi Flick with the latter.

"I tin retrieve erstwhile Hansi Flick took implicit (Bayern), our 2nd crippled was astatine location against Dortmund. We won 4-0. It is ever a booster if you triumph specified a game,” said Rohl.

"As well, successful the Championship successful the Steel City derby, I was besides portion there. I cognize what it means for the fans. This is much than conscionable a game."

Discussing the important of his Rangers squad winning connected Sunday, Rohl added: "A triumph would beryllium a large effect and we could headdress a large week with 3 wins successful a row, I deliberation it would beryllium fantastic.

"You consciousness it contiguous arsenic good successful a gathering room. You consciousness it connected the transportation and a dressing room. At the moment, the affirmative vigor is truly big, the content is there.

"We watched the [midweek triumph implicit Hibs] successful the morning. I showed them immoderate clips of what we did, the effort we had successful the game, willingness, character, bully operation against the ball, and adjacent successful the 2nd half, not ever truthful overmuch possession, but it doesn't substance due to the fact that they could not truly interruption our past enactment and it was a large job."

Rangers volition beryllium retired for revenge against Celtic successful the Scottish League Cup aft they suffered a 5-4 penalty-shootout decision to the Hoops successful the last of past season’s contention pursuing a thrilling 3-3 gully aft 120 minutes.

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