Deila: We’re playing the second biggest club

Ronny Deila believes Celtic are going up against the second biggest club in Scotland this Sunday.

Celtic will be facing Championship minnows Rangers on Sunday in the Scottish Cup at Hampden Park, with a place in the final up for grabs.

Although they are in the second tier, they still boast the second biggest budget in Scottish football.

As the biggest club and soon to be five-in-a-row league champions, Deila’s Celtic side are most certainly the biggest club in Scotland.

As quoted by the Scotsman, Deila said:

We are playing 
the second biggest. You should expect them to be on a level with Aberdeen, Hearts and those clubs.

They can be that good and this is going to be their test to show that they are. They have the second highest budget. Now it is the time for them to show how good they are.

Ronny Deila’s only other game against the lower league side came last season in the Scottish League Cup as the Hoops swept past them with ease as Rangers failed to even register a shot on target.

Despite the expectation and pressure to win the game, the Norwegian isn’t getting carried away with the occasion and the usual questions about his future IF he loses this game are circling around.

Deila, however, isn’t remotely bothered about the ‘ifs’ ahead of this Sunday.

I get asked every week what happens if we lose this. I am not thinking about ‘what ifs’. In my mind, we are going to win this game.

A win for Celtic will take them one step closer to winning a second consecutive domestic double, having already opened up an eight-point gap at the top of the table.