Gabby Agbonlahor sure 'one-sided' derby 'hard to take' for Rangers fans as stars didn't show any fight

Gabby Agbonlahor was surprised that no Rangers star attempted to leave anything on their Celtic rivals as they coasted to a 3-0 win last weekend.

The former Aston Villa and England striker took in the derby from Parkhead for the first time and was blown away by how dominant the Hoops were. Agbonlahor played in plenty of derbies throughout his career and, speaking on talkSPORT he explained how he always made sure to make strong challenges even if he could accept being second best on the day.

Philippe Clement's side failed to do that in what was a disappointing day for anyone of a blue persuasion and Agbonlahor believes that would have been "tough to take" for the Gers fans watching from home.

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And he described the action as "so one-sided" that even after Celts had a goal disallowed, their confidence grew knowing their opponents could do little from preventing another.

"Honestly I loved it," he said of the game. "I went with my girlfriend and everybody was so friendly. It makes a change. Everyone is friendly up there and having some good talks about football. I stayed where the Scotland players stay so when I was leaving I spoke to John McGinn and Aston Villa's set piece coach, having a bit of banter. I loved it, I met a lot of Celtic and Rangers fans and had some banter with them as well. I really enjoyed it.

"I've watched a lot of Old Firm games and when you watch them you, you are like, 'Oh it could have went either way, it is close or there was tackles going in'. I am not one to go into someone, but I played in a lot of derby games and if I am a Rangers fans I am probably looking at it like, 'They may be better than you, but put a tackle in. At least kick someone.'

"It was that one-sided and the feeling in the stadium from the Celtic fans was like, 'Why haven't we scored yet?' after 10 minutes. The goal gets disallowed allowed and it was, 'Don't worry we will score again soon'. It had that feeling that, 'We are going to beat these comfortably'. That must be hard to take for any Rangers fans."