Celtic and Rangers' academy sides battled out a 1-1 draw in the City of Glasgow Cup earlier this afternoon.

The Hoops played the majority of the second half with 10 men after Ewan Henderson was shown a second yellow card on 56 minutes and surrendered their first-half lead with just four minutes to play.

First-team fringe players were out in force for both sides including Henderson, Karamoko Dembele and Luca Connell for Celtic and Jake Hastie, Nathan Patterson and Josh McPake for Gers.

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And so it was through Connell that the visitors took the lead on 34 minutes. Trickster Dembele found the midfielder and he drilled the ball low into the bottom corner from some distance.

Rangers piled on the pressure after the break following Henderson's early dismissal and went close through Hastie and Kai Kennedy before Ciaron Dickson levelled.