Sometimes when you have three important games in a week it can be necessary not to over exert yourselves in the early fixtures.

If we have ambitions of retaining all our trophies won last year, and progressing in Europe beyond Christmas, today’s visit to Ibrox was the game to reserve some energy, being bookended by the two real big fixtures.

Celtic more than did the job on Wednesday night with a four goal thrashing of Dundee in the League Cup quarter final.

Wednesday’s upcoming game at Anderlecht is massive in our battle for third place in the Champions League. Anderlecht aren’t in a great place having just sacked their manager, and are missing some key players through injury, however this is the Champions League, and Anderlecht displayed a stronger challenge away to Bayern Munich than we did at home to PSG. This is the real big one.

Cliché as it may be, today was a very professional performance. Celtic were a little wasteful in the final third, and even had a 10 minute spell when we let rangers join in our game, but on the whole the dominance Brendan Rodgers and his side have at Ibrox was there for all to see.

It may feel slightly disappointing to see the majority of the home support remain in the ground beyond the 80 minute mark, but retaining fresh legs for Wednesday was key. Plus, I’m not sure Pedro would have survived another humiliating thumping. Positives all round.

What better way to start off the weekend than with a Saturday lunchtime stroll in the park.