Despite losing at home to Motherwell on Saturday, Graeme Souness believes it was still a 'great weekend' for Rangers.
The Ibrox hero insists the weekend's action was an 'almighty blow' for Celtic after they failed to capitalise on Philippe Clement's side unexpectedly dropping points on their own patch.
Brendan Rodgers' team lost 2-0 to Hearts at Tynecastle on Sunday, with Jorge Grant and Lawrence Shankland providing the goods for the hosts.
So, after the latest round of fixtures, it's as you were as far as the top of the Premiership is concerned.
And Souness, speaking to the media to promote this weekend's Scottish Cup action, believes Clement remains in the ascendency with his confident Rangers side.
He said: "It's upwards and onwards, I think he's doing a fabulous job.
"It would be totally wrong for anyone to make a comparison between the job I got at Rangers and the one he's inherited. My job was a lot easier than his job.
"I had budgets to work with, he's working on a shoestring. We got some of the best players in British football to come up here because we had the money. Philippe doesn't have that.
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"So, he's getting a tune out of a group of players who were looking like a pretty sorry bunch before he arrived. They weren't believing, they weren't playing with any confidence. They didn't play with an intensity that's necessary to win football matches. Now they are.
"Okay, they lost at the weekend, but that can happen. It happened to me many times in my career where you've dominated, had the best chances but you lose the game. That can happen.
"This weekend was still a great weekend for Rangers, simply because Celtic were going into that game on Sunday thinking 'It's our opportunity today'.
"They were bang at it but still came unstuck. Okay, they got a player sent off but that's an almighty blow to Celtic this weekend, that they couldn't make ground up, having seen Rangers slip up the day before."
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