Tannadice was so packed out this afternoon it looked like a Rangers creditors’ meeting and the Scottish Cup tie on show didn’t disappoint. Dundee United had the better of the opening period but four second half goals from an irresistible Celtic decided outcome.
Jon Daly headed wide early on after a Willo Flood cross early on but the first great chance of the game fell to Johnny Russell on 25 minutes. Gary Mackay-Steven got free on the left and crossed for Russell who mishit his shot, allowing Fraser Forster to make an incredible save and claw the ball away.
With Dundee United clearly on top defender Robbie Neilson received a straight red card for a forearm smash into the face of Georgios Samaras.
It took Celtic 36 minutes to make an attempt on goal. Joe Ledley’s shot from a corner was blocked and James Forrest shot over from a corner seconds later.
Celtic stepped up the pace after halftime. Charlie Mulgrew jinked to create space on the left side of the United box but Ledley couldn’t reach his cross. 8 minutes after halftime the visitors were ahead after the best move of the game.
Adam Matthews passed back to Fraser Forster who played the ball out to Joe Ledley. Ledley moved forward after playing the ball onto Samaras, who passed to Mulgrew before the ball moved onto Stokes. Anthony Stokes fired a low cross into the box which Gary Hooper dummied for Ledley, who never stopped running. The midfielder won the ball by nipping in front of his marker and shot home from 7 yards.
Samaras shot over before a Stokes shot after 64 minutes from 25 yards was saved by Pernis, the first save the keeper made in the game.
United had a great chance to draw level when substitute Milos Lacny latched onto a long through ball but his shot from 16 yards was weak and off target.
Georgios Samaras made it 0-2 when he got on the end of a Mulgew free kick to bullet a header into the top right corner of the net.
Two minutes later Johnny Russell had a great chance to pull a goal back but his shot from 15 yards flew narrowly over.
Stokes should have tied the game up 11 minutes from time when James Forrest combined with Hooper before Forrest cut the ball back to Stokes, who contrived to hit the crossbar with his shot with an empty net waiting.
Samaras and Forrest both had chances to add to the scoring before Ledley threaded a pass through the middle of the United defence for Stokes to clip past Pernis into the net.
With a minute of the game remaining Samaras beat Dillon, who pulled the Greek international down inside the box. Scott Brown rolled the resultant penalty into the net to make if 0-4.
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hamiltontim on 11 March, 2012 at 18:22 said:
What was the reason for the goalkeeping substitution today?
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Cause we can.
supperb lenny..
im just angry… let them know the truth…
Well done Celtic. Good second half.
Much to learn though. we are not the finished article. If we go to Hampden or the Govan Pawn Shop thinking we just have to turn up then we will lose.
The rangers players will now have even more of a siege (of Derry) mentality. Our young guns must prove their appetite is as big and their superior talent will win out over the next two weeks.
By the way really enjoyed the ‘F… you Motherwell, we’re gonna win the league’ – as the young ones text: LMFAO and ROFL!!
VP
Thanks for clearing that up :-))
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HamiltonTim..
Just because we Can
I Think Lenny wanted The Fans to Acknowledge big FF..Like Subbing a Hat-Trick scorer imo..
Summa
Lasley is like Mcculloch, pure anti- footballer. There used to be Sine Die bans in the old days, I think they should bring them back.
Business 101 –
Buy a business in trouble for a low price – Asset strip ASAP (note – remember to ensure business actually has assets)
Buy a business in trouble as an investment profit return vehicle – Ensure initial investment can be returned by sale of assets (note – remember to ensure business actually has assets)
Buy a business in trouble as a long term cash cow – Ensure business is viable (note milking of business should start ASAP to ensure capital return, if initial capital outlay to secure business is more then 5x the value of business then it is best to stay clear unless you are a zillionaire)
Wonder which business model the American and Far East companies looking to ‘invest’ in rangers are following?
Vaultbhoy
Do you need to make a certain amount of appearances to receive a medal in the cup???? i.e Paddy& Zaluska coming on?
ScotPatsFan on 11 March, 2012 at 17:34 said:
Interesting article, particularly the part about the dialect. I moved away from Coatbridge 25 years ago, aged 10, and last year a local in Hartlepool recognised my accent as being from Coatbridge, despite not living there for over 2 decades and the fact that I was speaking to a Pole and an Italian, so had toned it down quite a bit!
Hail Hail
ballabhoy
Summa
So no injury then?
blantyretim,
We had special lessons on hate at my non denominational school. Well, it was either that or extra PE.
think you must be in squad on cup final day to receive a medal…
its ok the huns winners medals will soon be smelted…
HT,Any time buddy.
The guy who asked Lennon if it could be counter productive not hearing from the players and management just doesn’t get the Internet does he?
here’s a clue as to how we might get news about Celtic direct from players and management and not filtered through a biased prism of skewed headlines and twisted words:
celticfc.net
slow learners these graduates from the Hans Christian Anderson Institute of Sports Journalism Scotland
Comments from Fallow fallow on Dons game….
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the h*ns are going bust getting an airing.
How long can the police ignore this for? It’s a sectarian hate crime in progress pure and simple. A derogetary reference to those of the protestant faith and yet the police stand idly by doing nothing.
http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/hatecrimeform/
If enough of us do it they are obligated to act. Sick of this.
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I saw their HMRC banner at the game as well. Are motherwell also having problems with the tax people?
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BlantyreTim..
Why you Stirring up this.. Hatred..:O))))
Summa of Samaras
blantyretim on 11 March, 2012 at 18:30 said:
think you must be in squad on cup final day to receive a medal…
its ok the huns winners medals will soon be smelted…
Cheers
Jungle Jim …….Gordon_J ……….Fully agree…….hatred is an emotion which is an extension of dislike, when dislike doesn’t ‘fit the crime’ ….. taking aside the bigotry / detestation of all thing Irish, Celtic, Catholic, what’s to like about a team which has , over the past 12 years in particular, cheated the sport of football, disgracing themselves and Scotland in the process…….they reap what they sow, and they will never recover from this, or gain any respect from now on…….no, hatred is not too strong a term, in these circumstances
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 11 March, 2012
Ya non denominational bassa………is that sectarian?
ballabhoy
As the old saying goes:
“You can take the bhoy out of Coatbrig…”
G_ J
you obviously didn’t do PE so did you do hatred? o))
You know when you think about it … we’ve changed our central defensive partnership umpteen times this season. Our player of the year left back has hardly made a contribution. Our captain was out for months and one of our best midfielders, Kayal, is now on a lengthy absence. Kris Commons, who made such a great contribution with goals last season was out for a long period and isn’t at full fitness yet. James Forrest and Gary Hooper have both gone a little off the boil.
Yet we are on for a treble.
Lenny is playing just as good a game off the park as his team does on it.
Nothing but immense respect for Neil.
Glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly on 11 March, 2012 at 18:27
No less a person than Frazer Wishart supported Lasley’s up and at ’em style the last time he kicked and fought against Celtic. I wonder what he says to a guy like Fraser Fyvie whom I’m sure he, also, represents. “It’s all part of the game, son.”??
I got approached by 2 Jahovah Witness folk while walking through the Calton this morning to get the bus to Dundee, I had a Celtic scarf in my hand.
Fair play to them
blantyretim, or should I say Mr Pot? Nuff said!
voguepunter,
“Ya non denominational bassa………is that sectarian?”
Well as I’m not a member of any denomination or sect probably not.
HT
did you tell them you would bleed for the cause?
Just back down the road, great day and a brilliant second half display.
Any bhoys know why zaluska was brought on at the end, the Arabs behind the goals were raging!
Lastly, they couldn’t fill their ground for a huge cup tie, says it all really.
Hail Hail
Incidentally, did anyone see Sammi rubbing his fingers together after he scored. Was he sending a message for ‘more money’..? silly gesture……. Paddy is a great passer of the ball, eh !!!
Well,. here we are standing on the very brink of history,..
Do any of us believe in Karma,..or fate? fate, i’ve always thought of as an excuse for not quite achieving something…..failing!. “awk it was never going to be…” “it just wasn’t our day..” Never have I liked that notion.I instead believe that we are all in charge of our own destiny.By the descisions we make every single step of the way. In everything we do in life.
We, Celtic are taking full control of ours and I am convinced NOTHING will step in our way.We as a club want this treble so bad, for a whole host of reasons.I won’t elaborate on this, as we all know fine what has went on and how we have been treated.
Karma,..well, yes I do think that “what goes around , comes around”.Never has this been more evident as it is just now , as it swirls around like a gale force wind at a certain institution in the south side of glasgow.
With Karma doing its own work, and The Celtic family in full control, I believe we are speeding head on into a very successful era…Nothing has been won yet..but i’m prepared to say WATCH THIS SPACE!
Lets enjoy this.
BT
I was in an evangelical mood so tried to persuade them to try St Peter’s in Hamilton :)
My thoughts exactly Mick11. well said mate.
been a good day all round.
KLV
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 11 March, 2012 at 18:34 said:
You know when you think about it … we’ve changed our central defensive partnership umpteen times this season. Our player of the year left back has hardly made a contribution. Our captain was out for months and one of our best midfielders, Kayal, is now on a lengthy absence. Kris Commons, who made such a great contribution with goals last season was out for a long period and isn’t at full fitness yet. James Forrest and Gary Hooper have both gone a little off the boil.
Yet we are on for a treble.
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Gordon…One Word…It Begins with S..and Finishes with i…
Summa of Samaras
Vogue Punter …….. NEIL’s honesty shines like a beacon amid the smoke and clouds of the biased MSM in this Country…..we owe NEIL, and our Board a lot….see you in court, jabba ……
Ever since that Lafferty sideshow nut job on Charlie,and despite their theiving and mal administration. The young colts have romped across them fields of dreams like an invading army of hated Tims the next day hunLines of sub editorial picture snarling and gangster word sniping agin the definition of a more BBC Traynor his otherwise attributes the SFA it’s dereliction any dogma of a fit and proper propriety it’s remit.
Like the perils of dancing with non wives, the charlatans from Mount Florida seem in divorce strait city the bigamist Gorilla in the courtrooms of Lawyer Land and all that it surveys in the plenty, plenty future kaleidoscope idiosphere of any future law phony Rankers.
HH
Good God, a Xavi misplaced pass….the earth tilts on it’s axis!
T4
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 11 March, 2012 at 18:42
Maybe he bet someone he would score?
Switching btw Dons/Murderwell and Norwich/Wigan.
Wee Shaun had a great cameo as a second half sub for Wigan getting an assist for the Wigan equaliser that Rednapp descibed as genius!Martin Tyler and Alan Smith also very complimentary about his performance.
What about that Lasley tackle-absolutely disgraceful.Hopefully a long ban beckons.