Whoever the victor, they would automatically become favourites to lift the Scottish Cup. Although, in this season of shocks nothing seems a given.<\/p>\n
Given the current Premiership context, this route to silverware was not one to be treated lightly. It might be the only trophy available to these clubs.<\/p>\n
Celtic were badly stretched. Rangers nearly full strength.<\/p>\n
What an opportunity this was for Danny Rohl’s side. They had Celtic on the ropes but, as has been the case too often of late, they couldn’t capitalise when in a great position.<\/p>\n
Rohl has said he needs to lift silverware this season. That’s the demand at Rangers and for too long that has largely escaped them. That is a long shot now.<\/p>\n
This was undoubtedly a patched up Celtic team. Crucially, a clutch of new signings were left out, perhaps suggesting recruitment hasn’t been up to scratch again. <\/p>\n
In attack, Celtic were almost anonymous. Incredibly, they had one shot – and that off target – in 120 minutes. You don’t win games like that. Yet they did.<\/p>\n
Defensively, they were quite something, though.<\/p>\n
They had won in Stuttgart and Aberdeen recently. Drawn at Ibrox last weekend when seemingly on the floor. Somehow, here, they got the job done against all odds.<\/p>\n
The scenes as they celebrated will be dissected and dealt with but Celtic are through and remain in with a shout of silverware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whoever the victor, they would automatically become favourites to lift the Scottish Cup. Although, in this season of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-522987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}