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Sparkling for its eighth consecutive title, Celtic retains a minimal advantage with one game less and a slightly better goal difference than its hard-fought rivals, with both teams stuck at 42 points at the top of the table.
Yet, for once, it is not just the traditional giants of Glasgow who have eyes riveted on the title. The first four, including Kilmarnock and Aberdeen, are separated by only three points.
However, as the game for the Scottish Premiership returns Wednesday after three and a half weeks of winter break, the Celtic and Rangers have shown flexibility.
Gerrard has attempted to compensate for the Celtic's greatest experience in winning trophies in recent seasons with the borrowings of former England team-mate Jermain Defoe and Steven Davis, who have won three titles in an earlier period of time. four and a half years at Ibrox between 2008 and 2012.
Neither Defoe, 36, nor Davis, 34, have enjoyed many minutes with parent clubs in Bournemouth and Southampton respectively this season, but Gerrard thinks they still have the quality to end the dominance Celtic on Scottish football.
"They have incredible quality on the football field," said the former Liverpool captain. "We knew that would not worry us and that it was two good people and two good professionals."
Davis was part of the last Rangers team to win the league in 2011, but was part of a crowd of players starting when the club went into liquidation and was downgraded to the fourth round a year later.
Since then, Celtic has hardly won the title, especially since it brought Brendan Rodgers, the former Gerrard manager to the North, in 2016.
The Ibrox defeat in December was Rodgers' first with 13 games with the Rangers. The Northern Irish has won the seven national trophies offered since his arrival in Scotland.
Celtic recovered from a slow start to the season as Rodgers was unhappy with the lack of activity in the summer transfer market, which contributed to his team's fall in the Champions League playoffs.
But a misleading performance in which Celtic had the chance to escape with a 1-0 defeat at Ibrox on his last day of the championship at least encouraged the board to give Rodgers money.
While the Rangers have left for the old leaders, Celtic has pursued its transfer policy in recent years by putting its trust in youth.
US international Timothy Weah, son of the winner of the Golden Ball, George Weah, signed a six-month loan agreement with Paris Saint-Germain, as did the winger of West Brom, Oliver Burke.
Slovakia's Dunajska Streda has signed a definitive contract with Iraqi club Vakoun Issouf Bayo. Rodgers says he needed the three new forwards to make up for Moussa Dembele's loss to Lyon on the club's last day. the window of August.
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was criticized during the winter break for his claim that "the Celtic are the most likely to get away from the pack, but at least the pressure on Rodgers' men is now the appointment.
"If we arrive in March and April and there is still congestion at the top, then you can say for sure that there is a title race at that time," added McInnes, whose team has finished in second place over the past four years.
Gerrard's first goal was simply to make the Rangers the second Scottish football force once again.
If it hindered its first season to prevent Celtic from winning 10 consecutive historic titles, it would make up for the trouble of never winning a league title in a legendary Liverpool career.
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