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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Deadliest finisher in Britain – coming off.
Great stuff Paul Lawrie.
Hun takes out the Utd runner – no card?
The best goalscorer in the country goes off minus a goal
At 2-0 down Rangers show their charitable side
to the world by subbing 3 players( Chellic, Cellic and Mervan)
and only puting one back on in their place.
HH
Mike
Ratners make a little change
Rangers need a goal and they take the great David Healy off? Some mistake surely!
Utd are committing a lot of silly fouls, making it easy for Gollum to help der hun.
Andrew Little on, Healy off – Peter Houston must be bricking it.
This time its Papac bringing down a DU player as he breaks clear
No booking from Collum the cheat
Now we know why wee wullie the gobshite aint booking huns
it costs £600 per booking to the club
Now we know why Ragers players don’t get booked, at £600 a time
Another mib let-off for das hun. Stick-on booking for papface not given.
Craig white welcomes any demo in car park.
£5.00 entry fee
HH
MM
A front line of Kerkar & Little to save their Cup hopes!
Dearie, dearie me.
The panic in there voices, £600 a booking!
The tension in there must be horrendous
♫ “…when two hearts are shaaaaaring” ♫
Clubs must pay £600 a booking in this round of the cup. No wonder R*ngers are losing – they can’t afford to risk tackling!!!!
United will be down to 10 men soon.
Surely that’s £600 down!
Just thought l would mention that l thought l had put a fiver on Utd to win.
Seems the auld paddypower has double my bet, Happy daz
Up PP
Ktt
Mtt
Collum’s starting to give all the 50-50 decisions to rangers, and booking DU players while ‘letting the game flow’ when it’s a rangers foul.
That corner kick which became a goal kick was bizarre, all the players on both teams were taking up positions for a corner.
Gollums obviously been told the huns can’t afford any injuries so he’s giving it tight to Utd.
Bartley really bad tackle – WTF ref
Cheetin bassas
Cheap shot by Bartley there!
Colum, you are a disgrace!!
c’mon Ally, get Jelavic on
Bookings for Davis ,Papac and Bartley not given.
That Aluko booking has ate up all the Hun gate money, it’s surely over
a United player will get hurt and Collum will be responsible. he might even do it himself.
UC
I would expect one of the unbooked United players to exact a wee bit revenge on Bartley soon.
That was a horrible tackle by Bartley, got the ball but he knew what he was doing with that follow through. Dirty hun.
Also, the huns singing section is awful.
We back yet?
Cheers Andrew
carlsberg any one??
Stuck in work. What’s the score?
What’s happening?
Howdy, isnt this just the best….
KLV