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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Good article on Phils blog – ‘journalistic’ integrity ?
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/when-journalists-forget-which-team-they-are-on/#more-2056
NUJ code of conduct (Please take note scottish meeja)
http://media.gn.apc.org/nujcode.html
Oglach
Re Fraser F. I don’t know how watertight our agreement is but would hope it is! If so then no need to fork out £2m now. Canny cash flow management or some such business thing.
Clares Bhoy
CelticAgents#HavingapartyWRD
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@stoksey10 Your at the wind up I presume?
Jelly goes down like he has bee shot – familiar?
Jelly dives and gets free kick described as “clever”.
@stoksey10Anthony Stokes
Good to see my old mate doyler has scored for hibs, havnt seen him in years hope he bangs in a few for them!!
Philbhoy
BSR is currently working on new material!
Buckfast, vodka or Guinness? Mmmmmmm
What’s a bee shot?
Eurochamps67
Keep us posted!
HT
A Guinness depth charge with a Buckie chaser – on special offer in Doc’s…
U
ulysses mcghee says:
4 February, 2012 at 16:50
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Thought it was shut at the moment?
HH
Giggs
ulysses mcghee says:
4 February, 2012 at 16:48
What’s a bee shot?
A spelling mistake – although bee shot has a ring to it
Uly
Ok it has been suggested I’ll keep you posted!
WE’RE HAVIN A PARTY……..
Afternoon CQN, travelling back from Inverness after a great result, delighted with the result – another difficult fixture successfully negotiated.
The Celtic fans outstanding again….jelly & ice cream…..musical chairs……..pass the parcel….. ! When the huns die ;-)
hh
bjmac
Aye – the front door’ll be shut…
good result today, now we focus on the league.
lenny’s team taking shape and taking off now.
win the league this year and we could be entering another golden era for the club
with the squad below:
g.k foster, zaluska
r.b mathews, lustig
l.b izzy, blackman
c.b rogne, charlie, wilson (polish bhoy)
r.m forrest, brown
l.m commons, (nigerian kid)
c.m victor, ledley, kayal, ki
st. hooper, stokes, sammy, (quality striker)
think thats the best 22 man squad we have had in a long time with plenty of time to improve as a team.
think we’ll start to see a lot of players outside that squad move on
ulysses mcghee says:
4 February, 2012 at 16:50
HT
A Guinness depth charge with a Buckie chaser – on special offer in Doc’s…
U
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Explain! Is that the wee glass of Buckie dropped in to the pint of stout? Or is it, as it used to be, a wee glass of port in the stout and then Buckie to follow? Either way it’s feckin’ mental.
Now when I was younger it would have been right up my street……..
Was the Diego Maradonna chant for the benefit of Mr Butcher?
Ht – great seeing you mate! Safe journey
hh
Good to see you back on the blog Tom
“Training Match”
The way it should be, lets do the same against the wee huns!
HH
can someone tell me why I support the rugby team more than the football tean..?
I know they are all masons but why?
TBB
is it ? o))
good health Tom..
BT
Because the Rugby team does not have any Rangers players in it nor ex-Huns in positions of power?
JJ
JJ
because I am Scottish?
I must admit that there are times when I have been saddened by the depths of depravity that the Orcs and the SFA and the Refs have swam.
But I have so many ridiculously giggly memories of our support – our beautiful, Keltic,, creative, humourous support.
From ‘where’s your chicken gone?’ through ‘watchin’ the bill’ and past ‘let’s all do the huddle’ all the way to today.
Makes me sure that this is the right path. Makes me proud and honoured.
And they make me laugh – and that, my friends, is simply priceless.
The Conga.
God Bless Celtic and its Support. Ying and Yang…
U
BJMAC
Always, always a pleasure. You , Lennbhoy and my guardian angel are my soul mates!!!
Uly
If that was for me. It’s ok I’ve paid the missus to leave the storm doors unlocked :+))
celticrumoursCeltic Underground
Next time we play at Ibrox is an official day of mourning. All #Celtic fans are asked to dress in black for the funeral. #blacksabbath
Dawyll says Craig Whyte is going to be exposed more in the next week.
Ooh er missus.
C’Mon Scotland!!!
Can we register the old black away/euro kit for our next visit to Ibrokes
Monaghan1900 said at 16:05
‘… Permaragers on FF in overdrive howling at the moon … They’ve thrown their medication away and are ‘phoning Northern Constabulary in their droves apparently.’
I have doubts about the veracity of that comment, I mean, how many of them would actually get as far as speaking to someone at the Constabulary? Have you considered how difficult must it be to press all those digits when you’ve got cloven hooves … ?
FF
Robert T
I’ve just tried it!!. Yummy :–)-
Paul
Testing, testing ;)
stoksey10Anthony Stokes
Heads bk… Every1 happy now lol??
BT
Cmon the Scotland!!!
Dawll sounds like a bitter hun , dont think he likes white any more
wonder what has changed
HH
Mike