Celtic captain Scott Brown does not expect this weekend's League Cup semi-final against Rangers to be a repeat of this season's first derby.

A Moussa Dembele hat-trick helped the Scottish champions cruise to a 5-1 triumph at home to Mark Warburton's men in September.

Brown believes the Light Blues will have learned lessons from their humbling and will show more resolve when the sides meet at the national stadium on Sunday.

"They have been more solid and have a more steady team as well, it hasn't been chopped and changed," he said.

"It will be a lot tighter. Everyone thinks it is going to be three, four, five-nothing for us again because we scored five goals but it is going to be a lot harder game.

"But again, we have the pace and quality to score a couple of goals.

"They will have watched us closely in the last couple of weeks knowing this game was coming up.

"They will play a bit differently. I don't think they will be as open as they were at Celtic Park but we will have to see what team they put out and who fancies it more on the day."