Leigh Griffiths believes that Rangers will feel the full extent of Celtic’s frustration yesterday at Hampden next month.

The teams meet in the William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final and Griffiths is adamant that Brendan Rodgers’ side will produce a performance more in keeping with a campaign that has Celtic going for a domestic Treble.

Irked at what was a poor collective display yesterday, Griffiths said: “Our display was poor. Hopefully, when we go to Hampden for the semi-final we can show everyone what we’re all about.

“We’d been playing well before today and it was just one of those things. They made it difficult for us and we had another day but it’s another point gained.”

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And Griffiths was also adamant that he should have won a last gasp penalty after feeling the full force of Clint Hill.

The Ibrox defender, who netted the leveller just minutes beforehand, went through Griffiths, who claimed that referee Bobby Madden later asked him whether Hill had got a touch of the ball.

The whistler invoked the wrath of the home support with a string of wrong calls, in the opening stages particularly, when both Hill and Jason Holt were able to escape sanction on various occasions for late challenges. On one occasion, Madden had a yellow card in his hand after James Forrest was fouled on the edge of the box, only to replace it without showing it to the veteran stopper.

“It was a penalty,” said Griffiths. “He hasn’t touched the ball and the referee asked me afterwards: ‘Did he touch the ball?’ I told him that he didn’t but that was after the incident had passed and he can’t go back and give it then.

“As it was, he has to either give the penalty or book me for diving. I was about to put the ball in the back of the net and, if you look back, he’s caught me waist high. Clint Hill also asked me after the game if he’d touched it.

“He didn’t make contact with the ball and that decision has cost us three points. Bobby Madden is the only man in the stadium who didn’t think it was a penalty but it’s over and done with now and I can’t keep going on about it.

“We’ll take the positives from it; we’re still unbeaten. It’s another point gained and another point towards the title.”

It was a turgid display for much of the 90 minutes from Celtic, with heavy underfoot conditions contributing to what felt like a very leggy performance.

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Griffiths echoed Rodgers by lamenting the surface, although was reluctant to use it as an excuse for the way that Celtic performed.

“Yes, the manager’s touched on the pitch beforehand,” he said. “We don’t want to make that as an excuse. We can play in any kind of surfaces.

“It’s not the greatest at the moment and it’s heavy on the legs. But we’ve coped with it before and we’ll need to cope with it until the end of the season.

“It wasn’t our greatest performance but you have to give Rangers a bit of credit because they came here and stuck to their game plan and got a point.

“For us it was all about continuing that unbeaten run and taking another step towards wrapping up the title.

“There had been a lot of talk about us going and scoring a lot of goals but you’ll have seen in our last few games against them that Rangers have shut up shop.

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“We knew that it would be a close game, that they’d come here to defend and hit us on the counter.

“There was talk from both camps about what they were going to do to us or what we were going to do to them but we were just focused on trying to get the three points.

“Rangers knew it was going to be a hard afternoon for them and, if you’d offered them a point before the game, they’d have snatched your hand off.”