Celtic – beaten finalists last season – started this campaign with a 2-0 win over sixth-tier Auchinleck Talbot, thanks to goals from Johnny Kenny and Sebastian Tounekti.<\/p>\n
They were then drawn against Dundee in the fifth round and were moments away from elimination after Ethan Hamilton’s superb strike gave the visitors the lead. However, Junior Adamu scored a 97th-minute equaliser on his debut to force extra time before Tounekti won it.<\/p>\n
Celtic were again made to dig deep in the quarter-final as they needed penalties to beat rivals Rangers at Ibrox.<\/p>\n
O’Neill’s side had just one shot in 120 minutes, but won the shootout 4-2 to make it to Hampden.<\/p>\n
And there was more drama in the semi-final as St Mirren’s Mikael Mandron made it 2-2 late on to take it to extra time. Celtic’s quality shone through though as four goals in six minutes blew the Paisley side away.<\/p>\n
Dunfermline meanwhile started with a 2-1 win over Queen of the South thanks to a Chris Kane double.<\/p>\n
They then secured the first of three victories against top-flight opposition as an own-goal from Hibernian midfielder Miguel Chaiwa proved the difference.<\/p>\n
Kelty Hearts were dispatched 2-0 in the fifth round, before Matty Todd’s early strike and a double from Olly Thomas earned a superb 3-0 win over Aberdeen.<\/p>\n
That booked their place at Hampden, where they beat Falkirk 4-2 on penalties after a goalless 120 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic – beaten finalists last season – started this campaign with a 2-0 win over sixth-tier Auchinleck Talbot,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}