Celtic comfortably reached the Scottish Cup quarter final with a 0-2 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle this afternoon but the home team will rue two moments of suicidal defending which gifted Celtic the important chances. Georgios Samaras put his laces through the ball to score from a tight angle before Scott Brown converted a penalty after Gary Hooper created a chance from nothing.
Hooper tried a cocky back heal early on after creating a chance for himself but Inverness keeper Tuffey blocked. Nick Ross was first to test Fraser Forster with a shot from the 18 yard line but the keeper dived to his bottom right to turn the ball round the post. Meekings had a good chance from the resultant corner but Kelvin Wilson blocked.
Kris Commons started his first game in over two months and could have converted but missed his shot after Hooper cut back from the goal line. Samaras and Commons then combined well to setup Hooper for a shot from the edge of the box that was saved by Tuffey.
The opening goal arrived after 33 minutes when Commons played a forward pass from deep which Ross Tokely should have cleared but didn’t make a clean contact on, allowing Georgios Samaras to run clean through and thunder an unstoppable shot from a tight angle high into the net.
Five minutes after the break Matthews, Brown, Commons and Hooper combined in the best move of the game before Hooper crossed but Samaras shot from 6 yards flew over. Moments later Samaras had a chance from even closer when Ledley crossed from the left but he could not turn his attempt from three yards goal-wards.
The Greek striker was continually a threat and got on the end of a Mulgrew free kick to head from 12 yards but the attack was temporarily cleared. Gary Hooper collected at the corner of the box and passed deep to where he thought Scott Brown was but on seeing Brown was elsewhere the Englishman chased after the ball and robbed Proctor on the line. The Inverness defender then tripped Hooper as he closed in on goal to concede a penalty. Scott Brown converted with the kind of ease that will have Neil Lennon wondering how his team managed to miss so many penalties in the last two years.
James Forrest replaced the tiring Commons and ripped up the field before shoot wide from 8 yards as Celtic closed out the game comfortably.
Let’s hope we get a home draw in the next round. Although, Tannadice would be acceptable….
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Free kick allowed for Ragers just five yards from where it happened
Hun corner cleared to DU player who looks to break but Edu pulls him down
Again no booking
Dundee Utd fans now stealing Celtic songs! “The Huns are going bust!”
SffS
The Utd fans singing our wee ditty from yesterday about thems going bust-priceless!
Collum is Rangers best player at the moment
Lee McCulloch is the answer upfront he used to be a striker — Billy Dodds
HUns are goin bust…Superb
Ken summit? Even if the hun won today I could take consolation in the fact that Houston has threw away a great chance given his past remarks about Neil.
like McKay Stevens
CultsBhoy loves being 1st says:
5 February, 2012 at 13:01
NICE,but I am a mhan of simple tastes,I like Cava an tapas an beer.
Hail hail
Go on Daly – in the onion bag!
Aluko intentional hand ball second booking!!!!!!!!
mcgregor kicked out there
UC
Miraculous recovery by Aluko
Collum going in to Establishment mode now,giving fouls no other mortal can see.
Getting tasty out there
rankers for the Treb, er no, Doub, er no.
Is there such a thing as a Wanble?
Another utd player booked. MIB in full save der hun mode
Kittoch
If Lee McCulloch is the answer, what’s the question?
Enough of FF. I need to shower again.
Second half same story. Two bad teams playing badly.
Why is it Goian can foul with no card and as soon as UTD foul its a booking.
great forwards tackle by Makial smith
Collum let’s the crowd decide
DU player off by 60mins?
u
Navanbhoy
Keep the faith.
Collum books another DU player
What a big girls blouse Bartley is
Kittoch-a long way to go mate,specially with the 5th Collum in charge.HH.
c’mon Utd, give us another one
Dodds ” the ref got that totally wrong”. Aluko bends down & places his hand on ball. Sorry, why was that wrong? What was wrong was the goal kick given to huns instead of corner for utd.
have to log off again i will (hopefully) get to check back in later today and to see the same scoreline would be perfect a 2nil away win in the cup, sounds familiar!!!!
Mon the HOOPS (and the arabs today)
Not caught up with all the posts yet, but just wanted to say thanks to everyone posting.
The jokes really are actually laugh out loud funny!
Keep em comin. I hope there is going to be a way to archive and keep this thread, anyone who wasnt online at the time, should absolutely come back and read these. If we could link in clips from the game, that apply to the comments, and the goals, afterwards somehow, that would just be amazing……
Anyone know where I can stick some money on Rangers to win the Ramsden’s Challenge Cup next season?
They have to be favourites before a ball is even kicked ;-)
Hail Hail
ballabhoy
Utd. might need 3 to combat Collum.
Bada bing
I know, but Fitz will never get back in time.
hahahahahahaah
Bartley is only frustrated – Dodds
Referee turning the screw on united and I can feel the commentators pain throughout this game
Paul lawrie wins the Qatar masters by four shots.
Final round 65, 7 under.
Wonderful.
A wee tip
Send a text msg to a mates home landline number
Hearin that wee robotic voice sayin “this is an information call. The huns are going bust. Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha”
Its a hoot
Jqb
When they were cheating their way to 9 in a row you wouldn’t even have known the seats were blue!
Looks like they’ve all fell into the lifeboat!
Is it possible to feel happy drunk without drinking?
navanbhoy says:
5 February, 2012 at 13:23
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Remember when all’s said and done, tomorrow you’ll wake up a Tim!