LEE Wallace savoured a “really enjoyable afternoon” as Rangers swept into the semi-finals of the William Hill Scottish Cup and admitted he and his team-mates would relish the prospect of taking on Celtic should the teams be paired together.
The Ibrox side breezed into the last four with a 4-0 thumping of Premiership side Dundee at Ibrox yesterday. Celtic will join them in this afternoon’s draw if they can overcome Morton at lunchtime and Wallace was not averse to the possibility of a first meeting between the Glasgow giants since February 2015.
“It would be a great game,” said Wallace of the potential Old Firm tie. “We’re all very much aware that it’s one of the biggest derbies in world football. It’s a game that everyone in that dressing room would really look forward to. This was certainly up there among our best performances of the season. The overriding feeling is that that was one of the best and that’s a standard we have to replicate every time we take to the pitch.”
Rangers now have two trips to Hampden in the space of a week, with the Petrofac Training Cup final against Peterhead also taking place there next month. “Nothing has changed in terms of Rangers’ aims,” added Wallace. “Every competition we enter, we look to win. This competition is no different. We’ve got a couple of nice trips to Hampden coming up and we’ll prepare the best we can and you never know what can happen when these games come around.”
Manager Mark Warburton tried to play down the rising expectation. “We are in a good position and it is great to get into the draw,” he said. “We are delighted with our league position but we have won nothing yet. There is no point in us getting excited too early. But it was another challenge today and a really pleasing performance.”
In contrast, Dundee manager Paul Hartley cut a crestfallen figure. “We are coming into a quarter-final, a magnificent chance to get into a semi-final and they didn’t perform. It’s pretty simple.”
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