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Celtic: Martin O’Neill believes Hearts can be regular title contenders
O’Neill gave “great credit” to Hearts for “going strongly at it and being able to stay there” and said Sunday’s clash between Celtic and Rangers can no longer be viewed as a title showdown.
Rangers are seven points adrift of the league leaders and four points behind defending champions Celtic, with second place still earning a shot at Champions League qualification.
“Rangers now are quite a number of points behind Hearts,” said O’Neill.
“We’re talking about three games left, so that would be difficult to overcome at this particular stage.
“It’s not impossible, it can happen. The games are very difficult matches still for all of us to come through.”
The Celtic manager added Hearts’ superior goal difference gives them the edge should their current advantage hold going into the final game of the season at Celtic Park.
“I suppose I was looking for a draw [between Hearts and Rangers]. A draw is very, very difficult to cheer on, but that would then have put it in our own hands,” the Northern Irishman said.
“As it turns out, mathematically speaking, it’s not actually in our own hands.
“But credit to the team, we’re still fighting, we still have a chance – there’s no question about it.”
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The United States completed a thrilling comeback on the final day to beat the Internationals and win an 11th successive Presidents Cup.
The hosts, containing eight of the world’s 11 top-ranked players, trailed by three points going into Sunday and were looking to avoid just a second defeat since the biennial competition began 32 years ago.
They dominated the singles, winning nine of the 12 matches, to seal a 17-13 win at Medinah – the scene of Team Europe’s famous Ryder Cup comeback win in 2012.
Jacob Bridgeman secured the decisive point by holing a four-foot par putt at the 18th to seal a one-up win over Australia’s Min Woo Lee.
There were also wins for Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Chris Gotterup, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and Jackson Koivun.
“I told the guys last night that funny stuff happens here. Medinah’s got a history of funny things happening,” said US captain Brandt Snedeker, who was a member of the team beaten by Europe in 2012.
“All these guys fought for each other, fought for this country, fought for this team.”
International captain Geoff Ogilvy said: “The US team came out firing, we knew they would.
“It was on a knife edge all day. If some of those one downs we had out there had flipped to one up, the numbers looked really good and who knows what momentum that could give.”
US President Donald Trump was in attendance in his role as honorary chairman, greeting the players and making a speech before the matches got under way.
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