Rangers saved on Celtic's coat-tails with a late win at Dundee. How important was Connor Goldson's strike?
KEITH JACKSON: The second half salvage mission may simply have saved them within the title race. With an inferior objective distinction had in addition they fallen six factors off the tempo they might have wanted snookers to knock Celtic off prime spot within the closing seven video games.
ANDY NEWPORT: Enormous. There's been loads of query marks over whether or not this aspect has the bottle for the title struggle however they got here up with an enormous consequence at Dens on a day once they have been miles off it. It is nonetheless all to play for with seven video games to go.
FRASER WILSON: By way of preserving the title race alive it was huge. Had it stayed 1-1 and the hole stretched to 5 factors then I reckon Celtic’s lead and considerably higher objective distinction would have been insurmountable.
DAVID McCARTHY: Completely huge. Rangers wanted two targets within the second half or the title was hanging by a thread. They acquired them and so they're nonetheless in it.
Celtic have gone 31 home video games with out defeat. If their participant of the season awards have been tonight, who wins it?
KEITH: Callum McGregor. Sure, Jota has been a sensation, Kyogo Furuhashi is a celebrity within the making and Joe Hart has crammed an unlimited gap between the sticks however the man within the masks has been Celtic’s heartbeat since taking the armband from Scott Brown. He’s been nothing wanting heroic.
ANDY:Kyogo was the star man in the course of the first half of the marketing campaign earlier than damage struck whereas Giorgos Giakoumakis is the shape man now however there is no doubt Jota has been their most constant performer all through. Callum McGregor may push him shut although.
FRASER: Joe Hart arrived for £1m and plugged the most important downside at Parkhead within the blink of an eye fixed. The large keeper has been excellent between the sticks and oozes professionalism on and off the pitch.
DAVID: The glue which holds this workforce collectively is Callum McGregor. Others may be extra flamboyant and crowd pleasing however the captain is the principle man.
Can Aberdeen gatecrash the highest six after beating Hibs on the weekend?
KEITH: With simply two factors between them and fifth place, after all they may. However this has been a desperately poor season for the Dons and it’s tough to make a case for them deserving a spot within the prime half of the desk.
ANDY: Issues are so tight between fourth place and tenth that something is feasible but when they do, it is a main let off given they have been so off the tempo for a lot of the season.
FRASER: That victory was essential and I reckon the Dons will construct on it in opposition to Ross County and Dundee to seize a prime six spot and go on to complete fourth and put a glimmer of gloss on an in any other case dreadful season.
DAVID: Their win on the weekend and different outcomes falling their method means they have an opportunity. Six factors from Ross County and Dundee are achievable and so they've an actual likelihood.
With Lyndon Dykes out of Thursday’s conflict with Poland, title your Scotland beginning X1.
KEITH: It may be value dipping into Steve Clarke’s again catalogue and deploying John McGinn as a second striker - making room for Ryan Jack in midfield. This workforce would look the half: Gordon, Patterson, McTominay, Hanley, Tierney, Robertson, McGregor, Gilmour, Jack, McGinn, Adams.
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ANDY: Gordon; McTominay, Hanley, Tierney; Patterson, Jack, Gilmour, McGinn, Robertson; Christie, Adams.
FRASER: Gordon, Patterson, Hendry, Hanley, Tierney, Robertson, Gilmour, McGregor, McGinn, Adams, Brown.
DAVID: In a 3-5-1-1 formation, I would go...Gordon; McTominay, Hanley, Tierney; Hickey, Jack, Gilmour, McGregor, Robertson; McGinn; Adams.