Next to nothing between the sides- Kris Boyd finally shares his Hampden thoughts

Kris Boyd has claimed that there was next to nothing between the two teams in last Sunday’s Viaplay Cup Final!

The Sky Sports expert seems to be on his own with that view after a succession of pundits admitted that there is quite a gulf between the Glasgow clubs.

The scoreline doesn’t reflect that but anyone taking a detached view of the Hampden clash would conclude that Celtic were well worth their win.

Picking a combined XI from the two sides it would be difficult to state a decent case for any of the Ibrox stars with James Tavernier apologising to fans and John Lundstam admitting that him and his team-mates had failed to turn up.

Despite that mountain of evidence Boyd viewed things differently as he told readers of The Sun:

In the Viaplay Cup final, there was next to nothing between the sides in spells. For me, the main difference was the two men up front.

In Kyogo, Celtic have a selfless team player, someone who runs himself into the ground for the greater good. It’s not that he hasn’t ever been able to do it. Because he has in the past.

No, Morelos either can’t get himself back into the physical shape required to put a shift in for the team. Or he doesn’t want to.

Either way, it has to stop. The No?9 position is far too important to how teams play these days and right now Rangers are suffering because of Morelos’ lack of mobility.

That may sound rich to some coming from me — but I hold my hands up on that. The difference is I wasn’t picked to play against Celtic.

At the time it angered and frustrated the life out of me and I had more than one terse conversation with Walter Smith about it. But as the years went on I realised he was absolutely right. As he always was.

Every team is bound to have some possession in a cup final but after Morelos scored Joe Hart didn’t have another save to make.

Tomorrow Boyd is expected to be part of the coverage from Sky Sports as Celtic take on St Mirren, the only Scottish side to beat them this season.