Celtic down Rangers to move to the quarterfinals of the Scottish Cup
Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup replay at Celtic Park, on Wednesday evening. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mark-Wilson-c24152 scored the only goal of the game. The replay was scheduled as a result of both teams drawing the first leg 2-2 at Ibrox, last month.
Celtic made a host of changes to their starting line-up that lost to Motherwell over the weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anthony-Stokes-c6239, while Joe Ledley was replaced by Beram Kayal in a 4-5-1 formation for the hosts. The visitors were without
their injured striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/El-Hadji-Diouf-c12228 upfront.
Celtic applied the pressure from the start of the game as both teams didn't shy away from tackles. Celtic had the Lion’s share of possession in the opening 20 minutes of the game. The first chance of the game came in the 20th minute, when Kyle
Bartley made a superb block on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Scott-Brown-c32660 to clear his shot away for a corner.
The first real highlight of the game came in the 37th minute, when Rangers defender http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Emilio-Izaguirre-c12489.
The Best goal scoring chance of the game followed in the 40th minute, when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Allan-McGregor-c5213, who cleared it to safety.
The Celts had another golden chance of scoring, when Ki Sung-Yeung was tripped just outside the box. The resulting free kick from Ki missed the upright by a few centimetres.
The second half started in an electric fashion, as the hosts took the lead immediately after the resumption. Wilson met Izaguuire’s cross to the back post, Steven Papac cleared his shot off the line but Wilson thumped in a volley on second attempt to put
the hosts’ front 1-0.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lukasz-Zaluska-c22929 got back to make the save. Celtic almost doubled their lead just after the hour mark, when Brown played a lovely ball to Samaras, whose
fierce shot from 15 yards rattled against the bar to deny the hosts of their second goal.
Rangers looked to pull one goal back but the hosts outnumbered them in the midfield. The visitors could not hold the possession for longer periods.
Just on the stroke of the full time whistle, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Madjid-Bougherra-c23033 was shown a straight red card for an awful tackle on Kris Commons. Nine men Rangers failed to trouble the Celtic defence as they slumped out of the tournament.
Celtic will play the quarter final against Inverness CT on the 13th of March.
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