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A year of change and challenge for the champions. And relegation for | :00:48. | :01:07. | |
Hearts followed by rejuvenation. New faces force a new focus. New belief | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
for those... Winning heals everything. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
They are a leader Park this season but Premiership favourites Celtic | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
are far from firing on all cylinders, and Hearts are looking | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
like a team reborn at the top of the Scottish championship. It adds up to | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
an intriguing matchup tonight in the third round of the Scottish League | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Cup. These two looking to join Aberdeen, Hibs, Partick Thistle, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Rangers, St Johnstone in the quarterfinals. We will have last | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
night's highlights at half-time. There are two more places up for | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
grabs tonight. The Dundee derby at Tannadice and Hamilton against | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Motherwell. We will have news of those two woven in with our coverage | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
of this one. Hearts against Celtic at Celtic Park. Charlie Mulgrew is | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
not playing tonight. That is why he is with me. Michael Stewart is here | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
as well. Letters find out who is playing for Celtic to night, | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
firstly. -- let us find out. Four changes from the team against | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Motherwell at the weekend. Craig Gordon, Scott Brown, Kris Commons | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
and Stefan Johansen play. Players moving out of the team, Zaluska, | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Kayal, by tonne and Tonev. Hearts have made three changes. Prince | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Buaben is back after suspension. Sam Nicholson is back. And Dale | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
Carrick. Robinson, King and Keating dropped out. Those are the team | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
selections. Charlie, maybe not too surprising when we saw the impact | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
that Brown and Kris Commons had on Sunday? Yes, they are big players. | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
You saw when they came on on Sunday, Scott Brown drive from the midfield | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
and he drags everybody with him. Kris Commons's goals cannot be | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
overlooked. He has got a great record. He has started scoring again | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
this season. Two big players. Michael, in terms of the three | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Hearts changes, is Prince Buaben the T1? That is the important area. With | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
Scott Brown coming back in first Celtic, it is important that Hearts | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
get their strongest team on the pitch. -- for Celtic. It will be a | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
good battle to night. Ultimately whoever can get a foothold in the | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
middle of the park, could win the game. Nicholson could cause | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
problems. The Celtic fans would prefer you were in the hoops rather | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
than the shirt and tie tonight. How is your knee? I saw the specialist | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
in London and he thought the best option was to get an injection in | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the knee. Settling down well. Hopefully I can get back to training | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
in the next ten days. I am trying to say area. We will see what the | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
physio says. Will you have to go under the knife? It was spoken about | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
but the best option was the injection. If I had the operation it | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
would have been an extra couple of weeks. It has given me a lift that I | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
can now start running. Here is a goal of yours from the Scottish | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
League Cup, sadly in a game you last against St Mirren. Has it been | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
surprising and disappointing for you that in among all this success you | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
have adverse Celtic, the League Cup has not been kind to you? Yes. Very | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
disappointing against Rangers. We never got back to another final | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
after that. After tonight, hopefully we are in the next round and we can | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
push on and do well. That is the big game for us. -- name. The last time | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
these never to met was five years ago. You will never guess who scored | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
the game. It wasn't Charlie! I can remember the penalty, a | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
fantastically struck one that just crept over the line. Charlie was a | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
wee bit excited about it as well. It was a good result. We got through to | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
the semifinal and ended up playing on a boggy pitch at Fir Park against | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
St Mirren. Unfortunately we never made the final. It was a great | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
result. We were going to a sticky patch at that time Park and win the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
game with a fantastically struck penalty was a good night. Not the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
most convincing penalty I have ever seen! Current Celtic manager Ronny | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Deila would not fancy a repeat of that result. It has been a tough | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
start for him in the Celtic job. He has been talking to us. He is | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
convinced he is making good progress. | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
I think we are getting there. To have a consistency with the starting | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
XI is important. When we have that, we are progressing. But when we have | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
switched a lot of players at the same time, we have struggled. Like | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
the first half an hour on Sunday. But again, when we get more | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
experienced players on, we get the momentum back. European football... | :07:18. | :07:29. | |
It is about fitness and about injuries. A lot of things are behind | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
the decisions. What are your ultimate goals this season? Do you | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
see the trouble as being attainable? It is a goal. It would be very | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
difficult. But we have a chance. And now we just have to go into every | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
game and do everything we can to win. We play good teams every time. | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
It starts with Hearts. That is a big goal for us to win the trouble. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
Hearts are not in the top league. What do you know of them and how | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
much have you seen of them? They are a young team. They are a big club. | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
They have been in the top division for many years. It will be a tough | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
game. They have very good confidence now. They are playing well. I am | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
looking forward to it. I have watched them on television. We know | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
what we are going to meet and we know it will be tough but we also | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
know how good we are when we play as we did in the second half on Sunday. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
He seems like a really nice guy. What is it like to work with? What | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
is his style and will he be the right choice? Definitely. He is a | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
really nice guy. A really top coach. His training is great. Everybody | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
enjoys it. He has brought some new ideas. I think he needs time like | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
any manager. It is very important you get the players onside. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Ultimately you need to get results and build up momentum. It can write | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
quickly turn. It is good to hear that the guys are buying into what | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
he is trying to do. Letters here from Robbie Neilson, the Hearts | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
coach. -- let us hear. He says they are top of the table through hard | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
work. If players want to get to the top, they have to work hard. If you | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
want to get better, you train more. When I was coming through as a | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
player, you reported at ten o'clock and you were away for 12. You are | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
never going to develop like that. Boys, now in four 8 o'clock and they | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
stay until half past four sometimes. It is a balance between development | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
and winning games. Will you be relaxed at Celtic Park? Yes. I am | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
pretty relaxed going into games. We do our preparation before it. We | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
give the players all of the information, as much as we can. It | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
is a case of motivating them before the game and giving them last words. | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
Celtic lost to Morton in the League Cup last season. Do you think they | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
put as much importance on this Cottage and as much importance on | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
this, designers Hearts? Yes, I think they do. Stephen and I went to see | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
the game against Motherwell on Sunday and have arrested six | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
players. It shows the importance of the Scottish League Cup. We urge | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
huge underdogs. But we want to show what we can do. | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
What have you made of Ronny Deila? I have heard a lot of good things | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
about him. I have never met him. I have heard a lot of good things from | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
players about the things he is trying to do. I look forward to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
meeting him. I think it will be interesting to see what his views on | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the game are. He is an attack minded. The things he's doing in | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
training are interesting. It will be good. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
We were talking about Ronny Deila being a surprise choice. Robbie | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Neilson probably falls into the same sort of category. He has been | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
impressive? Yes, he has. He is a very meticulous guy. He goes about | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
his work. He is fully professional. That has shown with the results. It | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
is not by chance they are sitting at the top of the league. He was | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
watching Livingston yesterday in Aberdeen. He goes about his business | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
in a professional way. I'm delighted to see him do so well. He has put | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
together a really good team. A lot of good acquisitions. You have to | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
take that forward onto the pitch. Get the players understanding what | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
they are meant to be doing. You can see with the youngsters and the | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
experienced players, he has got a good blend. Morton knocked Celtic | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
out of the League Cup last season. That is a suitable warning for | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
Celtic to -- that if you don't get your attitude right, something can | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
happen? Morton made it difficult for us that night. We were all over | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
them. We could not get that goal. That is what happens. We have got to | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
show tonight that we have learned our lessons. We can go through. That | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
is what we want to do. Everybody is up for it. Hopefully we can get a | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
result. More from Charlie and Michael at half-time. Let's get to | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
the action now. It is Celtic against Hearts. Bidding for a place in the | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
quarterfinals of this League Cup. The commentary from Stephen Thompson | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
and Liam McLeod. Good evening. When you have been in | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
a dark place, when you have been grappling with Demons, you find | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
yourself staring into the abyss, there will be a moment in the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
recovery process which will tell you if your time has come. Tonight would | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
be that moment for this Hearts team. They come to Celtic Park to face... | :14:09. | :14:25. | |
Hearts have adapted to the championship so far. This could be a | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
huge night for Ronny Deila. He has had anything but a comparable start. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
It has been a spluttering beginning under the Norwegian. The Champions | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
League is gone. Twice their league form has been hit and miss. Under | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
this cup spotlight last season they were found wanting. There is Craig | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Levein, former Scotland and Hearts manager. They would be a minute's | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
applause in joint respect of John Divers, a former Celtic player, and | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
Hearts supporter Gordon Wilson, who passed away at 43 while watching his | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
team play Cowdenbeath at the weekend. | :15:14. | :15:44. | |
It is a very different Celtic team to the one you normally see. Brown | :15:45. | :16:27. | |
and Commons return. So to Craig Gordon, the former Hearts keeper. He | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
left Hearts for Sunderland and is now number one in this neck of the | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
woods. A stable looking Hearts team. They scored 23 goals in nine | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
competitive games so far. Look out for Nicholson and sell. -- Sow | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
macro. The man Hearts fans love to hate, | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
Leigh Griffiths, is back in the Celtic squad tonight. Willie Collins | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
is in charge tonight. -- Willie column. He was in charge of the 2012 | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
final. The game is on the way. Celtic's | :17:21. | :17:32. | |
first foray in this competition this season against a Hearts team with | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
arguably a better squad than the last time they faced Celtic in the | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
top flight? Yes, definitely. I would say the purchases during the summer | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
have been astute, especially in Gomis. We will keep you up-to-date | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
with what is happening in the other matches taking place tonight. They | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
kick off later. Hamilton against Motherwell and the Dundee derby. | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
Dundee looking for redemption after the hammering they took against | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
Dundee United at the weekend. Hearts unbeaten in the league. Their | :18:15. | :18:34. | |
only defeat this season came in the Challenge Cup. They put out a second | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
string team. Buaben and Gomis were such an | :18:36. | :18:52. | |
important part of the United team that won the Scottish cup in 2010. | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
Reunited at Tynecastle. Hearts are more than happy to allow Celtic to | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
have possession of the ball in their run half. -- their own half. When | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
Celtic move up the pitch, they will tighten up and put in challenges. | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
Jason Denayer scored a couple of goals for Celtic since his loan move | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
from Manchester City. He has been impressive so far. | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
There was a little bit too much on that. If that ball had been slightly | :19:46. | :19:59. | |
better, Osman Sow was one-on-one. Celtic need to be wary of that | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
direct pass. Sow was brought down by Denayer. The | :20:02. | :20:22. | |
referee has gone to his pocket. Jamie Walker did ever so well in the | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
middle of the park, winning the ball from McGregor. I would like to see | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the referee let that one goal early in the match. Yes, it is a bad | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
challenge, but for me it is not a yellow card. A booking for the young | :20:36. | :20:51. | |
Belgian. Good movement from sale. -- from Osman Sow. He will be pivotal | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
to what Hearts do this evening. He made a run into the channel on that | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
occasion, showed his pace and his power. He will be vital. Six foot | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
four, Osman Sow. And he can move as well. That puts Denayer on a | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
tightrope for the rest of the match as well. | :21:16. | :21:48. | |
That was the first attempt on goal. Hearts have started the match really | :21:49. | :22:01. | |
brightly. There are just three survivors on the Hearts team from | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
the one that played Celtic the last time, a league defeat at Tynecastle | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
back in the spring. Patterson, Wilson and Nicholson. | :22:11. | :22:45. | |
Izaguirre with the cross. A very important clearance. The first real | :22:46. | :22:57. | |
prodding of the Hearts re-occurred from Celtic. Brown! -- rearguard. It | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
was a fantastic effort. Was it Stokes who headed in the end? I | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
think it might have been. Celtic probing, looking for the opening. It | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
was a fine strike. Just past the post. | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
It is the first time Celtic have laid a glove on Hearts so far. | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
Hearts have started well. They are not pressing the ball. You have to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
be comfortable as a defence to do that. Celtic have got the quality to | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
find pockets. I think Hearts need to be clever. | :23:46. | :24:04. | |
They need to play counterattacking game. They are not flooding too many | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
men forward. John Guidetti is the Celtic centre forward of choice this | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
evening. Anthony Stokes is playing on the left-hand side. | :24:23. | :24:49. | |
Alexander, the Hearts goalkeeper, is such an experienced campaigner. He | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
had a long spell as Allan McGregor's understudy at Rangers. | :25:00. | :25:49. | |
Guidetti did well to divert that towards goal. It was a clever ball | :25:50. | :26:02. | |
from Scott Brown. Guidetti tried to get a shot on it. | :26:03. | :26:31. | |
Well done from Osman Sow. He needs to retain possession for Hearts all | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
night. It was rather disappointing on | :26:39. | :27:08. | |
Sunday for the Celtic supporters. They could only draw with | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
Motherwell. It is a corner to Hearts. Walker really got a hold of | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
that shot. Luckily for Celtic it deflected away for a corner. Hearts | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
are really forcing themselves forward. That shot was definitely | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
going on target. Jamie Walker is one of the | :27:31. | :27:43. | |
youngsters who found himself in the first team as a result of the | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
problems they have had in recent years. | :27:46. | :28:01. | |
It will be another corner kick to the visitors. You just wonder when | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
he hits this, if the ball doesn't deflect, is the on-site? I think you | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
might have been onside. -- onside. Hearts are keeping possession of the | :28:16. | :28:53. | |
ball very well. They look like a confident team. Denier concedes a | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
corner. Hearts's third corner within a minute. How many times have you | :29:05. | :29:15. | |
seen that go into the net? Hearts turning the screw. I have seen Jamie | :29:16. | :29:24. | |
Walker score many times from outside the box. Not on that occasion. I | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
think that was the wrong choice. It was a difficult angle. He was | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
slightly off-balance. Just put it back into the area. Promising again | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
for Hearts. Just the one clean sheet so far this | :29:39. | :29:54. | |
season for Craig Gordon. It has been a problem for Celtic in the early | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
stages of the season. The referee was not ready there. He | :29:57. | :30:31. | |
is now. Stefan Johansen played for Norway | :30:32. | :31:33. | |
recently in a European Championship qualifier against Italy. They lost | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
the game. Dreadful defending! Guidetti kicks the post and | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
frustration. He knows he should have put Celtic in front. Absolutely. It | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
was a very bad mess. The only thing worse was the defending from Ozturk. | :31:53. | :32:11. | |
That is a golden opportunity. John Guidetti missing a glorious | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
opportunity to open his Celtic account. They are so giving van Dyck | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
a hard time down the other end. Collins. It is John Guidetti again, | :32:22. | :32:42. | |
it is too high for Kris Commons, and Paterson blocks, crucially. John | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
Guidetti does very well, you had the opportunity to go down, he stays on | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
his feet and he hands a lovely ball up and in the end it is good | :32:54. | :33:02. | |
defending from Calum Paterson. A couple of warnings for the | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
championship side, in the last couple of minutes, the Scottish | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
champions. Trying to stab it towards goal, Alexander holds on. It is a | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
bit scrappy, the quality of the corner is not that great, taking a | :33:19. | :33:33. | |
lovely touch. In the end, it falls to Jason Denayer and he does not | :33:34. | :33:43. | |
have it. Emilio Izaguirre. He was not going anywhere. Hearts have won | :33:44. | :34:06. | |
the last two League Cup matches, there have won both of them, it was | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
a 1-0 win, it was a penalty in 2009. Paterson. Bailed out, by John | :34:14. | :34:46. | |
Guidetti, it was poor that time. Yes normally, his distribution is very | :34:47. | :34:55. | |
good. It was slack there. He was a hearts fan as a boy, Alexander, he | :34:56. | :35:08. | |
is living the dream. Capitalising on poor Celtic possession, it is poor | :35:09. | :35:18. | |
hearts possession, McGregor. WHISTLE Goalkick. Excellent defending. | :35:19. | :35:26. | |
McGregor tries to take him on the outside, and he is really showing | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
that he has the pace to deal with that. His brother Richard is | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
currently, with Terry Henry at the New York Red Bulls. It cannot be | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
bad. I played with him at Burnley, he is a very nice guy, York rebels | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
can't be bad. And he had a spell at Burnley as well. Is he a character? | :35:48. | :36:01. | |
He is. It is only a temporary intermission. Celtic beginning to | :36:02. | :36:10. | |
grab this game by the scruff of the neck. Kris Commons, it is good play. | :36:11. | :36:18. | |
It is good movement by Kris Commons, he is finding it difficult to get on | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
the ball, hearts have made that area so compact. That was his first | :36:22. | :36:34. | |
attempt on goal. Of the night. John Guidetti is not the shyest of guys, | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
when he came into the Burnley dressing room I had my iPod on, it | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
was his first game, in the dressing room and he put my iPod off, he said | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
what is this rubbish? He put some Dutch house music on, so I swiftly | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
told him to take that. It was a while back but he was a talented | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
player, it was unlike him to miss that opportunity, his main attribute | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
and his outstanding attribute is his finishing, he is very skilful. Over | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
the course of a season. It will be 22, John Guidetti. It is a tough | :37:13. | :37:22. | |
looking challenge. Yes, she liked to challenge as well. That attitude | :37:23. | :37:29. | |
like to. It is the news Celtic gaffer. It has been up and down | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
since he replaced Neil Lennon Way back in June. There were other two | :37:35. | :37:47. | |
Champions League knockouts, it was the previous one that stuck in the | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
throat the most I would imagine. It really was a capitulation against | :37:52. | :38:04. | |
Legia. Kris Commons could be in, and Celtic, they are beginning to turn | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
it on now. They are starting to find space and movement, in between the | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
hearts lines and that was excellent again. Working up his left foot, and | :38:13. | :38:20. | |
in the end it was a touch too many. Hearts can recover. Lost sight of | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
the ball at the crucial moment. Stokes was there. Green and white | :38:25. | :38:45. | |
hoops. John Guidetti. Kris Commons. Brown. Neil Alexander 's fingertips, | :38:46. | :39:01. | |
another Celtic corner, hearts having to weather the storm. Yes, Scott | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
Brown is very good from the edge of the box. Set up very nicely for him. | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
It is a good save in the end, he caught it well enough. He had the | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
entire campaign with a hamstring injury. It is kept in by Virgil van | :39:21. | :39:37. | |
Dijk. To no avail in the end. Celtic are delighted to see him still at | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
the club, with the closure of the transfer window. It looks like, he | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
was. Johansson. McGregor. And Johansson was under all kinds of | :39:45. | :40:14. | |
pressure there. Celtic are committing more and more men to the | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
attack, they are almost playing four upfront, pushing on, well into it. | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
And they are putting hearts under pressure but the problem is, Wilson | :40:27. | :40:36. | |
trying to put it away, and it is in! It is the first goal for John | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
Guidetti, in the green and white hoops of Celtic. It is one that puts | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
them in front, against the championship visitors. First blood | :40:48. | :40:56. | |
to Celtic. John Guidetti makes no mistake with this finish, he will be | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
delighted to open his account, Danny Wilson has got to do it with a | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
clearing header. Anywhere, he puts it right into the path, back into | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
the danger area. When you have got to header it into the corner. It is | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
a mistake and it is a costly one to have. They will know more than | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
anybody else, that a striker wants to get his first goal for the club | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
as soon as possible. And the Swede John Guidetti is off the mark. It is | :41:29. | :41:40. | |
no surprise, when he is on loan, 20, in 23 appearances. It just shows | :41:41. | :41:49. | |
the quality that he has. He will get opportunities, that is one thing | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
that you can guarantee as a striker for Celtic. It is a position that is | :41:54. | :42:02. | |
up for grabs, that is for sure. The Serbian international that has | :42:03. | :42:04. | |
signed is on the bench to night, he has not really impressed so far. | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
John Guidetti has, he has got good movement as we have seen there, and | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
Celtic will quickly looking for a second | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
to really knocked the stuffing out of their opponents. To really 1-0 up | :42:19. | :42:24. | |
and then get the second and third goal. I'm sure that would have been | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
the focus of his pre-match talk. When you do school, getting the | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
first goal quickly. It is the Stoke corner. Turning towards goal. Again. | :42:36. | :42:48. | |
Two in just two minutes. Hearts are swimming against the tide. I wonder | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
if they could have two better chances. Emanuel as Aguirre -- | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
Emilio Izaguirre, deep. He will be furious with himself, you are right | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
it could have been a hat-trick and it probably should have been a | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
hat-trick. Wonderful defending. He started his career at Manchester | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
United, like so many others, he has had to go far and away to rediscover | :43:23. | :43:33. | |
himself. Barnsley and Port Vale. Denmark for six years as well. 29 | :43:34. | :43:44. | |
now, but he started this game well,. Hearts have not found | :43:45. | :44:00. | |
themselves behind to offer them this season, wonderful win at Ibrox. At | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
the start of the championship campaign. 2-1, that was. Back to | :44:06. | :44:17. | |
Nicholson, we have not seen much of him so far. We are at the quarter | :44:18. | :44:27. | |
mark. Nicholson now. Scoring a screamer against Hibs. In a league | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
victory in August. It will be a goal kick. Hearts at the start have | :44:34. | :44:45. | |
really struggled to get their key players on the ball, Nicholson has | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
been a real standout for hearts, he has not really be involved. Janey | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
Walker, making dynamic runs. Simply because they are all in their own | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
half, Celtic cannot get on the ball because of the pressure that they | :45:02. | :45:11. | |
are under. Stokes. Trying to play in John Guidetti who appreciate the | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
efforts. He was looking to let back to Stokes, to get the shot. It is | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
probably the first time that they have played together, it will take a | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
while, it always does as a striker to find partnerships. To find what | :45:28. | :45:39. | |
the other striker likes to do. We were talking to Charlie Mulgrew | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
before the match and about this competition being the Achilles heel | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
of Celtic. St Mirren in the semifinals a couple of seasons ago, | :45:53. | :46:02. | |
this day last year, they lost 10-2 at the end to Hamilton Academical, | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
it is an unlikely victory. Extra time winner. Knocking Celtic out. It | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
was an astonishing result, the longer the season went on and the | :46:13. | :46:13. | |
longer the armed -- the unbeaten run Celtic went. | :46:14. | :46:24. | |
That is a bit more like it from hearts, making the run forward, in | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
the end it is a good tackle, from Jason Denayer. It is a set piece. | :46:32. | :46:53. | |
Walker corner. Jason Denayer I. It is going to arrive there are, in the | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
end. Celtic should have cleared that. Plenty of corners, in the way | :46:59. | :47:08. | |
of the men. I don't know why Jason Smyth took a touch there, always | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
wanting to clear your lines. Relieve the pressure, he tries to take a | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
touch as it is a mistake. There is another corner. Carrick, in the | :47:18. | :47:25. | |
middle for hearts, scoring a couple. He awaits again. Jason tonight are | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
feeling a bit better, conceding a corner in the first place. -- Jason | :47:33. | :47:45. | |
Denayer. The 19-year-old from Brussels, he is not far off the | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
Belgian senior squad. Doing well to get into that. Each time, the hearts | :47:50. | :48:09. | |
attack breaks down. Celtic's last League Cup triumph in 2009, Aiden | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
McGeady with a penalty. Emilio Izaguirre, he was at the | :48:16. | :48:29. | |
right place at the right time. Playing down the left, a neat 1-2, | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
his delivery is not bad, well defended, it is another corner to | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
Celtic. A really good approach to the game by Celtic tonight. Stokes, | :48:43. | :48:57. | |
away by Wilson. A push on Sam Nicholson, that has drawn the hearts | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
free kick, they were under serious pressure even after the Celtic goal, | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
Celtic keeping them hemmed in. It has calmed down just a bit in the | :49:07. | :49:18. | |
last couple of minutes. It is one thing that hearts cannot afford to | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
do, when they keep possession of the ball, they need to try and build a | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
bit more, back to front. Without any real quality. And possession his key | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
when you are up against it, trying to keep the ball. It looked as | :49:34. | :49:47. | |
though it was going to get through to Kris Commons, there was no flag. | :49:48. | :50:04. | |
32 and a half minutes in. Celtic in front, thanks to that John Guidetti | :50:05. | :50:17. | |
goal, the Swede with his first strike, the Scottish champions, | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
hearts started promisingly, they have had possession. Terence Fond | :50:20. | :50:33. | |
Danny Wilson. In truth, wonderful save, from Alexander. Again, bring | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
play from Emilio Izaguirre, fantastic delivery. Alexander has | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
two make a wonderful reaction save here. Although there is plenty of | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
power you have got to say, another mistake, he is saved by his | :50:50. | :50:59. | |
goalkeeper. Virgil van Dijk was in the Netherlands squad for the | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
opening qualifier, he did not play, they lost to the Czech Republic. Is | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
that the Celtic centre-half? It is incredible, he does ever so well, | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
tries to get a bit fancy. Just pick somebody out with a solid pass, and | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
it would have been another goal for Celtic. Hearts have two face another | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
Anthony Stokes corner kick. After things have been sorted out. | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
Remember one of the players was booked earlier on. For a late | :51:44. | :51:55. | |
challenge. On Ostman so. Anthony Stokes it is, Carrick does well, | :51:56. | :52:04. | |
with a good header away. Emilio Izaguirre. Again, it is a really | :52:05. | :52:14. | |
good combination tonight. To, it looks like Emilio Izaguirre is in | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
the mood to night. Anthony Stokes is on the left-hand side and it is | :52:20. | :52:30. | |
causing hearts real problems. Anthony Stokes, Emilio Izaguirre | :52:31. | :52:39. | |
again. It drifted out of play across Emilio Izaguirre, not his best to | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
night. Well spotted by the assistant referee on this nearside. Celtic | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
attack in the east end of Celtic Park in the first half. As they tend | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
to do in the first half of matches, the other third round ties tonight. | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
Dundee United, Dundee, what a game that could be at Tannadice. Paul | :53:07. | :53:21. | |
Hartley's team. To go to Tannadice tonight, top of the SPL Premiership. | :53:22. | :53:29. | |
Joint top, as United top Celtic, five points behind those two. But | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
with a game in hand, it is against Partick Thistle. On its way through, | :53:35. | :53:41. | |
Callum McGregor has been flagged offside. This time, it is Jason | :53:42. | :53:53. | |
Denayer, going a fraction early. It just shows you, it is so hard to | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
defend against. When you have got the Celtic centre-half is breaking | :54:00. | :54:06. | |
in like that. All Woody through to the quarterfinal draw, at Tannadice | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
-- already three. The completion of that Dundee derby. Between Hamilton | :54:11. | :54:22. | |
and Motherwell. Live on BBC radio Scotland, after all of the ties are | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
done, including this one, the St Mirren side losing after extra time. | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
It was St Johnstone and Hebburn and, also through to tonight straw | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
after their victories tonight. -- and Hibernian, also through to two | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
nights draw. Jamie Walker has won a free kick. He | :54:46. | :55:01. | |
will want to speak to Callum McGregor. I think it might have been | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
a slight over exaggeration, it was a bit theatrical. It is poor from | :55:07. | :55:18. | |
Hearts, almost getting through. You don't want to be conceding | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
possession to men like this, here is Kris Commons. Three goals this | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
season for Kris Commons, 32 last season. He is fouled. | :55:27. | :55:48. | |
Offside flag. He is really not getting enough of the ball, not | :55:49. | :56:00. | |
enough service. When he does get service, it is poor. 1200 hearts | :56:01. | :56:07. | |
fans have come along the mph tonight. -- the M8. They have come | :56:08. | :56:16. | |
here in confidence, the only defeat so far is when a second string side | :56:17. | :56:38. | |
lost at Livingston. Foreword by Nicholson. It is brilliant | :56:39. | :56:51. | |
football, by Efe Ambrose. He has his critics but that is good. He is | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
playing at right back, a position that he knows very well giving that | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
he plays it for his national team, including Appenzell as Nigeria | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
reached the last 16, talking about that Livingston victory over hearts. | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
Here is the man who masterminded it, his team lost to Aberdeen last | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
night. Mark Burchill the former Celtic striker is to his left. They | :57:18. | :57:26. | |
were watching them Manchester City friends. Plummer was watching and | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
John Guidetti. He was inside last night, part of the Livingston | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
coaching setup. He began his career here. It is incredible the amount of | :57:38. | :57:48. | |
players that teams like Manchester City and Chelsea have out on loan, I | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
was reading that Chelsea have got more players out on loan than they | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
do in their first squad, that is incredible. That is incredible and | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
hilarious, that shows the finances that they have got to run sides like | :58:01. | :58:07. | |
that. With other clubs like Celtic and St Mirren, if they can benefit | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
from the system then great. Hearts were waiting for the flag to go up | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
as it did a few minutes ago. It is Carrick. Over the ball. Scott Brown, | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
lovely run. Shoulder to shoulder challenge. We know that Celtic, with | :58:27. | :58:36. | |
Scott Brown throughout that European campaign, it was a futile campaign | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
with regards to the Champions League, how much of a difference | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
would he have made, had he been in the Celtic engine room? I think he | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
has made a lot of difference, we have a leader on the pitch, but | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
possibly a bit soft in the European qualifying games. Again, it is | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
Emilio Izaguirre and Anthony Stokes, we know that Anthony Stokes likes to | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
play through the middle but he has played very well on the left flank. | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
100%, if he's going to try and build a team, players in possessions, they | :59:12. | :59:20. | |
need to build relationships, I think that he is going to have two, Ronny | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
Deila hast to start playing the same team, on a more regular basis, that | :59:25. | :59:32. | |
he is going to find consistency. You are not going to get consistency | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
doing it. Anthony Stokes with a free kick, Hearts cannot afford to | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
concede a second. The interval, that is not a bad call, Steve Brown, | :59:45. | :59:52. | |
Nicholson, his run is a bit earlier. It just shows you, the | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
counterattack, one long ball from Neil Alexander, if that pass had | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
been two inches longer, Nicholson have maybe got his foot on it. That | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
is the danger, Celtic need to watch for, that is why Ronny Deila has | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
been talking about getting the second goal. Hearts are very much | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
still in this game. Alexander is there. Generally taking a pragmatic | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
approach to these games, in Warsaw, 2-1 down were Celtic. Still waving | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
the players forward, they were down to ten men, it would have been a | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
wonderful result in the end. As Jason Denayer, he fouls, it was a | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
game that they look pretty comfortable in, they had been caught | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
up at the other end of the park. He has an attacking philosophy which is | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
great, but the one problems is that you will get caught on the Qatar | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
attack. Celtic have had wanted sheet in the last seven games -- the | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
counterattack. There is a fine balance between | :01:08. | :01:20. | |
committing too many men forward and leaving yourself exposed. They have | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
got to find that balance. Going into the final minute of this first half. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Ronny Deila in conversation with John Collins. John Collins, who led | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Hibernian two League Cup success in 2007. They hammered Kilmarnock in | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the final. Jamie Walker! What a chance! Spurned | :01:42. | :02:01. | |
by Jamie Walker. It was a golden opportunity. Will they get a better | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
one tonight? Celtic very much out of jail. Those defensive frailties we | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
were talking about, exposed once again. Jamie Walker could not take | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
advantage. Another horrendous mistake. Jamie Walker was so | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
unlucky. I personally would have gone low into the bottom corner. The | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
goalkeeper's left-hand side. He has tried to lift it over Craig Gordon. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
That will be their best chance tonight, probably. It goes to show | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
again, Celtic are not killing teams off. They are giving teams the | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
opportunity to get back into the match. Craig Jordan was beaten. The | :02:49. | :03:01. | |
crossbar came to his rescue. Celtic looking a bit jittery towards the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
end of this first half. They seem to have problems clearing their lines. | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Ball up and had a clear opportunity. -- Prince Buaben. He just drags his | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
shot. Jamie Walker was so unlucky. Who will be thinking about that all | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
night tonight. The half-time whistle goes. Hearts have looked pretty | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
comfortable in possession. But Celtic have turned the screw in the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
middle section of the first half. John Guidetti could have had a | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
hat-trick. He has just the one. It is the one goal that separates the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
two. His first goal for the club. What an amazing end to the | :03:49. | :04:39. | |
first-half here at Celtic Park. Celtic have dominated. One ahead. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Could have been further in front. What an opportunity for Jamie Walker | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
almost on the half-time whistle. Charlie Mulgrew and Michael Stewart | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
watching. What a super points that could have been for Celtic? Yes, it | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
would have been a bad time to lose a goal. Thankfully came off the bar. | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
We go in 1-0 up. He had so much time, Michael. Maybe too much? How | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
much will Hearts regret that? We will find out in the end of the game | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
comes. When you come to Celtic Park and you get a gilt-edged | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
opportunity, you have to put them on the back of the net. Fantastic | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
technique. He will be disappointed, knowing he should have found the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
back of the net. It was very slack play by Celtic to allow him in | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
there. Potentially he may had a wee bit too much time and thought about | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
it too much. Maybe if it was one touch to finish it, he might have | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
hit the back of the net. Those chances are few and far between at | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Celtic Park. It is 1-0 here. Three League Cup ties going on tonight. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
The other two kicking off half an hour after this one. A early days at | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Tannadice in the Dundee derby. Dundee have just missed a penalty. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Greg Stuart slammed it down the throat of the goalkeeper, who turned | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
it away for a corner kick. A barnstorming start. Sift sea, with | :06:22. | :06:36. | |
the outside of his right foot, swinging the ball across and the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
keeper touched it away. -- shifty. A full house here. Great game. | :06:40. | :06:52. | |
There is a Lanarkshire derby tonight as well. Hamilton against | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Motherwell. Richard Wilson is there. We are into the 22nd minute. It is | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
0-0. There has not been a chance so far. Both sides are very cagey. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Hamilton had a shot blocked inside the penalty area. Otherwise we have | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
not seen much open play. The most interesting aspect of the game has | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
been the two sets of fans goading each other. The atmosphere is pretty | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
heated. The game itself has not sparked yet. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
The draw for the quarterfinals is later tonight once the Dundee derby | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
is finished. Five teams already through. Let us review last night's | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
action. On this evidence Aberdeen do not | :07:41. | :07:53. | |
plan on Malinga sing the League Cup and easily. They were ahead as early | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
as the eighth minute. -- relinquishing the League Cup that | :08:00. | :08:13. | |
easily. David Goodwillie and Adam Rooney to -- proved lethal for | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
Aberdeen will stop --. Rooney scored the second. Then Ryan Jack was | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
stretchered off after what looked an innocuous challenge. With a quarter | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
of an hour remaining, Rooney claimed his second and Aberdeen's third. And | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
just as he did earlier in the season, the Dons number nine claimed | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
his hat-trick. Johnny Hayes with the cross and Rooney sneaked into prod | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
home. A solid victory for Derek McInnes's men and another match ball | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
bagged by Rooney. In August, Rangers left Falkirk with | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
a win. They fell behind in this cup clash after five minutes. Lloyd | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
reacted well to a spilled shot. Owain Tudor-Jones scored an own | :09:21. | :09:35. | |
goal. Into the second half and Rangers took the lead through Dean | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Shiels. A clever through ball from Smith and a cam finish. -- a calm | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
finish. Another dangerous Smith cross was met by John Daly, forcing | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
a great save from Donald. Then the moment that infuriated Peter | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Houston. He was convinced there was a handball. But could he do much | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
about it? With no award given, Rangers wrapped up the match in | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
style through Ian Black. Ross County and Hibs have both | :10:12. | :10:26. | |
struggled for form this season. It was the championship side who took | :10:27. | :10:39. | |
the lead. -- Championship. Alan Stubbs's side doubled their lead in | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
36 minutes with a similar goal to the first. A lovely counterattack | :10:43. | :10:58. | |
move. Stevenson delivered a pinpoint cross from a longer to score. A rare | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
moment of sheer for the Hibs fans. The visitors had to seek out the | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
match with ten men. Dylan McGeouch was dismissed. The referee dishing | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
out a straight red to the on loan Celtic midfielder. | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
Kalmar McCann St Johnstone photo closing counter at Rugby Park. It | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
was not a great night for Kilmarnock. No complaints from the | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
midfielder, booked for diving. Tommy Wright's side took the lead. | :11:48. | :12:00. | |
It is not the prettiest build-up you will ever see. But it was well worth | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
the wait. The finish from Brian Graham. His third goal in four | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
games. With 20 minutes remaining, elemental was given his marching | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
orders. A second yellow card was inevitable. | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
Partick Thistle progressed to the quarterfinals by beating St Mirren | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
in extra time, revenge for the league defeat last Friday. In a | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
match of very few chances, a Nathan Eccleston strike was enough to send | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
the hosts through. It was Partick's second home win over St Mirren in 33 | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
years. We have heard from Jim that Greg | :13:04. | :13:23. | |
Stuart's penalty was saved in the Dundee derby. Still goalless at | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
Tannadice. Goalless too between Hamilton and Motherwell. Celtic | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
leading Hearts by 1-0. It could have been different and have time. John | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Guidetti would be delighted with his first goal? Yes, it is a great | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
finish. He has taken it well. It was not the greatest clearance from | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Danny Wilson. If you look at it here, it goes wide. Emilio gets on | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
it. The ball was between the goalkeeper and the defenders and | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
John took it well. It was not that good! As a centre-half you have to | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
make sure you get that over the crossbar and out for a corner. You | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
cannot be putting the ball into an area like that. It is dangerous. It | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
came to Guidetti quite quickly. He will be delighted to get off the | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
mark in a Celtic jersey. It was not a surprise that the goal came midway | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
through the first-half because Celtic all over Hearts. They were | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
cutting through them with great ease. It seems as though John | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Guidetti's style will fit in well with Celtic? Definitely. He is | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
working hard for the team. He gets on the edge of the box. I think what | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
Guidetti Brinks to de Celtic team is physical presence. -- brings to the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Celtic team. He should score there, to be honest. He is a big difference | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
to the rest of the strikers. His movement in this game so far has | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
been quite impressive. Scott Brown with a fantastic strike. Scott | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
drives the team forward. A number of chances from Celtic. This was | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
McGregor. That was a good clearance from Eccles Lee off the goal-line. | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
-- Eckersley. He offers something different for Celtic. Griffiths and | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
Stokes are similar. A great save their from Alexander. Guidetti will | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
be a good signing for Celtic. What struck me, Charlie, was that Celtic | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
have the right attitude from the start? Yes, that is important. These | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
games in the cup are all about attitude, being up for it. These | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
teams come here and they have got nothing to lose. The likes of Hearts | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
come from the championship and nobody expect anything from them. | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
There was a get out of jail card available for Hearts at the end of | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
the half, and Jamie Walker failed to convert the chance? It was a great | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
opportunity. Some slack play from Celtic. Good quick play from Walker | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
as well. He read it. He is starting to move quicker than the rest of the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Celtic defence. He maybe had a bit too much time. He has got to be | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
scoring that. Opportunities like that are few and far between. The | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
first 20 minutes, big Robbie Neilson would have been happy with Hearts. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
But after that, Celtic started to get a hold on the game. We saw are a | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
lot of opportunities. For the first 20 minutes, Hearts were comfortable. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
There is only one goal in it. All to play for. Celtic need the goal or | :17:27. | :17:40. | |
two to make this safe? Yes, we need the other goal to make it more | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
comfortable. Hopefully we can get one night and early. Back to Stephen | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
and Liam. The 20th League Cup meeting between | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Celtic and Hearts. Celtic have won 13, Hearts have won seven. The | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
Jambos get the second half under way. 1-0 down against a team that | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
have won the last ten games against them. | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
Ambitious. 40 yards out. Why not have a go? He leans back and little | :18:24. | :18:37. | |
bit. -- a little bit. You do feel a second Celtic goal Wood ended as a | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
contest? Yes, that would have been talked about at half-time. Getting | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
the second goal, killing teams off. A great example of Celtic running | :18:48. | :19:14. | |
into trouble in a game in which they seem to be comfortable was against | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
Aberdeen here. They were in cruise control. On the hour mark, Aberdeen | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
pulled one back. They could have salvage something from the game. -- | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
salvaged. No replays in the League Cup, unlike | :19:33. | :19:49. | |
the Scottish cup. It is decided on the night. Extra time and penalties | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
if necessary. Celtic were taken to extra time by Morton last year. They | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
eventually went out. It is a competition that Neil Lennon could | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
not crack as Celtic manager, although he did win it as a player. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
He cracked everything else, of course. Johannson conceding the free | :20:15. | :20:28. | |
kick. Walker, who so nearly equalised on half-time. There is Efe | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
Ambrose at his worst. It is another example of Celtic being slack. A | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
very simple ball. He could have taken a touch. In the end he slashes | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
at a clearance and puts his team under pressure. | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
So, Robbie Neilson eyeing up the Celtic penalty area. Sam Nicholson | :21:01. | :21:27. | |
to take the corner. Good play by Neil Alexander. Reading | :21:28. | :21:54. | |
the danger. He is an experienced player. Playing as a sweeper there | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
almost. Eckersley had absolutely no idea | :21:57. | :22:45. | |
that McGregor was behind him there. He got lucky. It could very easily | :22:46. | :22:57. | |
have gone wrong for him. Celtic have won the Scottish League Cup 14 | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
times. You just feel one of these times | :22:59. | :23:23. | |
Celtic will do something that will be their own downfall. A slack | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
backpass like that. You just feel there is a number -- another | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
opportunity in this game for Hearts. Good start to the second half. It | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
has been from one end to the other. Paterson had we pull out Stokes's | :23:43. | :24:01. | |
shirt. He definitely pulls him. Dale Carrick normally does his work | :24:02. | :24:34. | |
at the other end of the pitch. The debt he waiting in the box. -- | :24:35. | :24:46. | |
Guidetti. Surrounded, the big Swede. The corner kick beats everybody. | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
O'Connell at the back post is the cousin of Irish rugby legend Paul | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
O'Connell. He scored an own goal against Caley | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
Thistle in the league. That was before the marrow board | :25:09. | :25:30. | |
game. Ronny Deila made just the ten changes for that game! -- | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
marathoner. His Celtic career is in its infancy, | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
of course. But he does like to change things. No messing tonight. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
He has gone with the top team available to him. | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
That is the sort of instance I am talking about there. You have to | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
secure that kind of ball here at Parkhead. Difficult times for | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
Hearts. They are under pressure. In this time to challenge their from | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Johannson. He knows what he is doing. -- and miss timed challenge. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
You wonder how long Hearts will leave it before the judges another | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
striker? Maybe 70 minutes. He has given a penalty! It is a | :26:27. | :26:46. | |
penalty to Hearts! Osman Sow went down under the challenge of van | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Dijk. Why van Dijk hangs a leg out here I will never know. He has | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
absolutely no need to do that. There was not much in that. Willie Colum | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
sees enough. He kicks the back of his heel. It is just enough. | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
Osman Sow is guided to get himself. The Hearts fans would not have known | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
much about him before he signed in the summer. He scored the winner at | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
Ibrox in August. He skies it high. Another huge, huge chance for Hearts | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
goes begging. I thought his run-up was casual. He was trying to go down | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
the middle with a clip. He gets it horribly wrong. It has not just gone | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
over the bar, it has gone over the bar by a couple of metres. The look | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
of horror on his face said it all. He hit -- they hit the bar at the | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
end of the first out through Jamie Walker. They miss a penalty. How | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
many chances do they need? When you get opportunities like that at | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
Parkhead, you really have to take them. Whereas his countryman at the | :28:19. | :28:30. | |
other end should prowess to put Celtic in front, Osman Sow misses a | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
glorious opportunity. It is another penalty! Ozturk is in trouble. | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
Yellow card. We have had two penalties in the space of the same | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
number of minutes. It looks like a shoulder challenge. He went into the | :28:49. | :28:59. | |
back of John Guidetti. He was far too forceful. The ball was running | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
away from Guidetti. He was never going to get it. Bang into the back | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
of his back with his forearm. Kris Commons, who scored from the spot | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
against Motherwell at the weekend to salvage a draw, has the chance to | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
ease Celtic towards the draw for the League Cup quarterfinals. 32 goals | :29:23. | :29:31. | |
last season, three this season. Make that four! Celtic 00 up a couple of | :29:32. | :29:41. | |
minutes after Hearts miss a penalty. 2-0. We talked about defining | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
moments in games. The last few minutes, Hearts miss a penalty and | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
Celtic score one. There is no way back for Hearts for me now. It is a | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
good penalty. He gets the power on the ball. Even if he does the right | :30:03. | :30:13. | |
way, Alexander, the power is enough. Kris Commons seldom misses from the | :30:14. | :30:26. | |
spot. He is almost hitting the 70 mark in his Celtic career, Kris | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
Commons. That is a phenomenal statistic considering he is a | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
midfielder. He scored on his debut with just about his first touch. | :30:41. | :30:51. | |
Hearts are on the rack. It is all their own doing. Yes, Celtic have | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
the bulk of the possession in the first half but Hearts had a couple | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
of gilt-edged opportunities. Walker and Osman Sow guilty will stop --. | :31:04. | :31:18. | |
Kris Commons doing the sentencing. Hearts would need to make a change | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
now. Change the formation, perhaps, bring on another striker. Certainly | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
press higher up the pitch. The quarterfinals, tonight at | :31:27. | :31:46. | |
Tannadice, you will get that on BBC radio Scotland. And sport sound. | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
After the other two ties tonight are done. Of course, later on, 7:45pm | :31:52. | :32:02. | |
kick-off, this one starting half an hour earlier. Half-time school at | :32:03. | :32:25. | |
Douglas Park, it is Hamilton Academical 0-0 Motherwell. Goalies | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
in the Dundee derby, heading towards half-time to. 2-0. To the | :32:31. | :32:43. | |
Premiership champions Celtic, here. Here is Ambrose. Played all of | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
Nigeria's games at the World Cup finals. All four of them. Brown. | :32:51. | :33:20. | |
Emilio Izaguirre. A coming together between Carrick and Paterson but | :33:21. | :33:32. | |
they are OK. Paterson. Craig Levine and Jack Ross watching on, it is a | :33:33. | :33:50. | |
long way back for their team. Stokes. And it has been turned into | :33:51. | :34:03. | |
his own net! By Adam Eckersley. You know what he is trying to do comedy | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
is trying to put it back to his goalkeeper but he gets far too much | :34:11. | :34:19. | |
on it. It is a fantastic ball in, you can see what he is trying to do. | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
Maybe just to put it back for a corner. The game is most definitely | :34:25. | :34:36. | |
finished. It is a horrible moment for Adam Eckersley, you could see | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
what he is trying to do, playing it back to Alexander but the pace of | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
the ball did not really make that viable. It did not, you have got to | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
feel sorry for him. It is a bad mistake in the end. A big share of | :34:52. | :35:06. | |
credit for that one. Yes he will be claiming an assist. Adam Eckersley | :35:07. | :35:16. | |
in a very good first half, we can confirm half-time at Tannadice, is | :35:17. | :35:27. | |
also goalless. Those clubs looking to join Aberdeen, Partick Thistle, | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
Rangers, St Johnstone and Hibernian, Celtic are basically there. A | :35:36. | :35:45. | |
monumental comeback. It does not look that way. What a huge couple of | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
minutes it was. So missing the penalty, it is a very good penalty. | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
There will be a change. The end of the park go Celtic, they win | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
themselves a as well. They convert one of Kris Commons, in off Adam | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
Eckersley. Offside flag. There are, the changes are made. Jason Holt. | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
Replacing Carrick, it has been a good first half, he was always an | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
option. He is a proper midfield player who is on, in Jason Holt. | :36:29. | :36:40. | |
Celtic change two. John Guidetti, goes off, the Celtic supporters like | :36:41. | :36:49. | |
the cut of his jib, he will be replaced, he scored his goal, he was | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
involved in a lot of the forward play, he worked hard. The only thing | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
that will be disappointing for him is that he should have got more | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
goals. It should have been three anyway, but he is off the mark. He | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
is a permanent signing, arriving from sporting in Spain. Eventually, | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
as the transfer deadline day moved at one point it did not look like it | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
would happen, and John Guidetti happened after the deadline day, and | :37:27. | :37:36. | |
Stefan Scepovic is a Serbian international. Still looking to do | :37:37. | :37:46. | |
his bit, to get into the good books of the Celtic supporters, a goal | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
would help, Scott Brown is on the ball now. As it comes to Ambrose. | :37:52. | :38:02. | |
Johannson. Lovely ball. Not a great take by McGregor. Yes it was a | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
really good one from McGregor, lovely clip over the defence. Lovely | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
touch. The half-time sub, to Virgil van Dijk. It is a position of | :38:18. | :38:27. | |
comfort for Celtic, that is for sure, it could have been different. | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
It really could, the game completely changed with that penalty miss, and | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
Celtic now looking extremely comfortable, popping the ball about | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
under no pressure, starting to enjoy the match. White making a good start | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
to the Europa League campaign, the second tier competition. They would | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
rather be in the Champions League, but a draw, is a good basis for | :38:53. | :39:00. | |
moving forward in that competition. Dynamo Zagreb of creation. -- | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
Croatia. Following that, a remaining team. Ronny Deila, arriving from | :39:09. | :39:18. | |
Norway. In the summer, he would love a run in the Europa League and | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
indeed in this competition, because this competition offers him the | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
first chance of silverware. It is a competition that they have not won | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
in five years, he will be desperate to get his first as the Celtic | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
manager. If he wins the treble, he will be breaking the mould? It has | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
not happened in a while. We are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
Yes, a long way to go, there will be other clubs that have got a long way | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
to go. It is a cornerstone of yellow it is a fantastic match, constant | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
threat on the left-hand side -- it is a cornerstone of yellow it is a | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
fantastic match. Almost. Wilson. And even tougher | :40:11. | :40:45. | |
shift, he has done well, it was not a fantastic ball from Danny Wilson, | :40:46. | :40:55. | |
and he chases it down, does Sow, 70 yards down the pitch. He really has | :40:56. | :41:07. | |
been isolated tonight, he has not had a lot of service or support | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
runs, it has been a difficult night for him. He spent the season at | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
Partick Thistle, Emilio Izaguirre thought about the challenge for a | :41:18. | :41:24. | |
split-2nd. Was lucky, it was a 1-2. He was lucky to get back, it was a | :41:25. | :41:43. | |
Miss control. 11th caps for his country now. Scott Brown looks back | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
to his best, just in time for the international double-header, which | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
is coming up very soon against Georgia. The crucial, crucial trip, | :41:55. | :42:24. | |
to take Poland on in Warsaw. O'Connell. McGregor is offside. | :42:25. | :42:34. | |
Maybe he has just drifted, the wrong side, of Adam Eckersley. Stephen you | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
have been on both sides of this situation, I have been on the end of | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
a good few doings from Celtic. You have been on both sides of the | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
situation, you have been at Rangers when they have dominated teams, you | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
have also been in situations, as the flag goes up in the far side, | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
against Anthony Stokes. You had been on the receiving end against Celtic | :43:03. | :43:04. | |
and Rangers and you have also been on the Rangers team when you have | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
given teams a doing. It is a very difficult situation for Hearts which | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
is what I'm trying to say? Very diplomatically put, at this point of | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
time, you are 3-0 down and you are pulled the just looking for the | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
final whistle. When you are coming to Parkhead and you go 1-0 down, you | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
always feel like there might be an opportunity to get back in the | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
match, but historically, when you lose a second goal, it is very much, | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
just trying damage limitation. You go chasing the game, taking a heavy | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
one and you might lose four or 5-0. It is very difficult. Playing | :43:49. | :44:01. | |
Livingston at the weekend, a match at Tynecastle on the 28th, Celtic, | :44:02. | :44:14. | |
and kick-off is on Saturday. At lunch time. Both national finals are | :44:15. | :44:26. | |
back at the National Stadium this season after the Commonwealth Games, | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
that is back here for Anthony Stokes. It is a really good passage | :44:30. | :44:39. | |
of play for Celtic, it is a lovely backheel from Anthony Stokes, | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
quality ball, that is delightful, from Anthony Stokes. Again linking | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
up. They both have really strong partnerships tonight. Allan McGregor | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
has been taken off, on loan from Aston Villa, the man who comes on. | :44:59. | :45:09. | |
The 24 your old Bulgarian international, ---year-old Bulgarian | :45:10. | :45:18. | |
international. He started eight games, for them last season comedy | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
gets immediate touch. --, he gets an immediate touch. He scored three | :45:26. | :45:34. | |
times for his country, all in one game, against Malta in a World Cup | :45:35. | :45:46. | |
qualifier. That was last year. There is the Scotland manager. It is | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
real, the real stuff began for him in Dortmund a couple of weeks ago | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
and he was lucky not to lose the game. The Georgia and Poland | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
matches, will be played in just a couple of weeks time. Away in Warsaw | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
against Poland, that is when the pressure really starts, that is when | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
they are expected to pick up points. Hearts come forward just now. It is | :46:14. | :46:21. | |
forward for them. They just cannot get a touch on the ball. Keeping | :46:22. | :46:29. | |
possession. Very comfortably, and hearts just cannot do it at all. It | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
is a great run forward, he was not spotted, by Ambrose. Kris Commons | :46:36. | :46:49. | |
has been spotted. Aleksandar Tonev. It is a nice first touch, onto his | :46:50. | :46:58. | |
left foot, it gets a shot on target, it is never going to work at that | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
distance. The cups were a problem for Celtic, they lost a couple of | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
times to Greenock Norton. At this stage exactly a year ago, they lost | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
to Aberdeen, they went on to win this trophy at this stage, they lost | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
to the Dons in the Scottish cup. Trying to write some wrongs, this | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
season. Aberdeen looked in the mood to defend this trophy last night, | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
Stevie Crawford passes on some wisdom, to the substitutes that will | :47:33. | :47:42. | |
be on in a second. It is the last throw of the dice for hearts, they | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
will stick to Mac strikers on and really go for it, but unfortunately | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
I think that it is too little, too late. 15 minutes left to go. -- to | :47:53. | :48:02. | |
Mac the last meeting was a 7-0 meeting | :48:03. | :48:14. | |
at Tynecastle, it was a game in which Neil Lennon was talking about | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
football utopia, after the performance by Celtic at Tynecastle | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
that day. The Moroccan is waiting to come on, he has released Walker, and | :48:29. | :48:47. | |
Walker again. Surprise that Jamie Walker did not release the shop. | :48:48. | :48:56. | |
Yes, one second earlier, the second opportunity to attack him. It is a | :48:57. | :49:17. | |
really good ball in by Jamie Walker. Jimmy Walker does well, he puts the | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
ball into the area and in the end, it is well defended. The hearts | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
corner. Changes will come after this. 21 new role Jamie Walker to | :49:29. | :49:55. | |
take. It is easy to deal with. Anthony Stokes, and Adam Eckersley | :49:56. | :50:04. | |
who put the ball through his own net tonight. Hearts would have loved a | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
cup run this season and they might still get one in the Scottish cup of | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
course, of course they would like a run in the cup competitions but they | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
have got bigger fishes to fry? I agree, the management team's focus | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
will be on the league. I think it is all about getting them back up to | :50:26. | :50:45. | |
the Premier League. He's not at his best tonight, really, was isolated | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
tonight, he did not get much help from his team-mates, and when he did | :50:50. | :50:52. | |
was not good. Just that she look of horror on the face of Sow, it was | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
1-0 at the time and he ballooned it over the bar. That is James Keating | :50:56. | :51:05. | |
's, he began his career at Celtic, he was the top under 19 scorer, he | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
was part of Hamilton Academical when they start and hit Burnley and, -- | :51:14. | :51:22. | |
they stunned Hibernian. Hamilton have adapted well to Keating, and he | :51:23. | :51:29. | |
is on for his new club. Yes they are going to leave it like this now, | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
Hearts going four for 4-4-2. It is a last throw of the dice, if they were | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
to get a goal it would make for an interesting last ten minutes but | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
Celtic do not look like they are under any pressure. Anthony Stokes. | :51:45. | :52:03. | |
Emilio Izaguirre. Side, that will rule that one out. Again, it is | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
Emilio Izaguirre, they have been brilliant tonight. You just wonder | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
if he does not touch it, will it go in anyway? Connections, if he does | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
not make a connection I think it will go into the bottom corner. It | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
is difficult to tell from the previous angle. Another new boy | :52:28. | :52:34. | |
waiting for his first goal for the club. John Guidetti got his earlier. | :52:35. | :52:47. | |
Aleksandar Tonev, now going into the final ten. | :52:48. | :52:59. | |
for Kris Commons. Celtic, swaying in their hammocks, quite happy with the | :53:00. | :53:24. | |
way that things are, very comfortable, they began their season | :53:25. | :53:31. | |
in mid-July, in the Champions League qualification, that draw in Salzburg | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
last week. It is a good basis to go forward with. Yes it has been an | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
indifferent start, that is three months now. Is that to be expected? | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
You have always got the time when there is a new player, new | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
management. You have got that'll solve that St Mirren? It takes time | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
to gel, you are talking about building relationships on the pitch | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
and off the pitch, I think that period is now probably over. And I | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
den think that it is an excuse any more, what he needs now is results, | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
this is certainly a very good results. Brilliantly done, by Emilio | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
Izaguirre, he really deserved that and for me, he has been Man of the | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
Match, absolutely fantastic. Going forward, taking his man on, numerous | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
balls in the box, he commits that offender. And then, he just drags | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
his shot. Difficult angle to score on. What a match he has had. He has | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
just got the one goal for Celtic, against St Johnstone a few years | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
ago. Emilio Izaguirre, who like Ambrose played for his country in | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
the cup finals, in all three of the Honduras matches, Ambrose, facing | :54:54. | :55:05. | |
Bosnia, Argentina and then France, in the last 16. There is Stokes, | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
slipping and sliding, his ball in, it is a way, by Alexander. If | :55:13. | :55:21. | |
Celtic's ball had just been a bit better they would have scored a few | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
more goals, it is a good save by Neil Alexander. El Hassnaoui, he was | :55:26. | :55:43. | |
in the Moroccan Olympic squad in London 2012. He was born in the | :55:44. | :55:51. | |
Netherlands. The new signings for hearts, signed a three-year deal. He | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
was with Spartak Rotterdam in the second tier of Dutch football. Here | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
is another Dutchman. Virgil van Dijk. Taking chances. He has | :56:05. | :56:12. | |
overcooked it. Threading it through. It is the sort of thing throughout | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
the season at Celtic are going to get caught with, sometimes they play | :56:17. | :56:24. | |
two for four, and if Virtual Van Dyke is willing to take risks like | :56:25. | :56:31. | |
that, people will score goals, from other Celtic players because they | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
just cannot recover. That is all very well, but in games, I think | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
they will get caught out in one or two matches. Six and a half stoppage | :56:41. | :56:53. | |
is to be played. Aleksandar Tonev, the | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
less said about that the better. He has just celebrated his 39th | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
birthday, Ronny Deila. He will be fairly content with what he has | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
seen. There are still issues that he will need to address, that will have | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
reared their ugly heads. He will be desperate for a clean sheet, because | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
Celtic have been struggling for clean sheets. John Guidetti. Scott | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
Brown, getting another 90 minutes under his belt, he has been quietly | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
efficient, and they have looked aggressive however, there have been | :57:32. | :57:39. | |
moments, of capitulation from him. They are their own worst enemy at | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
times, from overplaying and over committing. If that is the way that | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
they want to play, you will score goals. They will concede some along | :57:50. | :57:59. | |
the way. Here is Chris Ambrose. WHISTLE | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
Free kick, it has gone the way of hearts. The book is out, it is | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
yellow. It is a definite foul, pushing things out of the way. I | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
don't know if the DLO is for dissent. -- if the yellow. | :58:17. | :58:30. | |
Good touch by Holtz, we have not seen much of him since he has come | :58:31. | :58:43. | |
on. Emilio Izaguirre. That is a clumsy foul. It is frustration, | :58:44. | :58:51. | |
isn't it? It is also a broad challenge, I don't know if that is | :58:52. | :58:58. | |
his first tackle, but it is a yellow card. Scott Brown in the foreground, | :58:59. | :59:10. | |
just watching on, he was not on the Celtic team charter back from | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
Salzburg, he missed it, he was having a drugs test with Aleksandar | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
Tonev. Aleksandar Tonev made the flight, Scott Brown didn't, he made | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
his way back, there are very strict rules in the airport at Salzburg. | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
They were not allowed to fly aircraft in and out after a certain | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
time last week so Scott Brown did not make the flight. I don't think | :59:33. | :59:42. | |
that hearts should be too despondent about this result, the league is | :59:43. | :59:47. | |
their main focus this season, for the first 15 or 20 minutes, it | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
looked as though they would cause Celtic one or two Mac problems. As | :59:53. | :59:58. | |
the game rolled on, the quality of Celtic told. They are certainly not | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
the first and they won't be the last to come here, and loose | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
heavily to Celtic. They have had opportunities to bring themselves | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
back into the match, and as they said at half-time, you have got to | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
take them. Unfortunately for hearts, they did not. It is convincing for | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
Celtic, they have deserved it, they probably argue readers are the 3-0 | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
lead that they have just now, -- arguably deserved the 3-0 lead. But | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
things could have been completely different, if the shot had been a | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
bit lower, 1-1. Yes we could have thrown out on Celtic as well, the | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
opportunities they have created. They probably created another six or | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
seven glorious opportunities that they have not taken, they have | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
dominated the second half and they have deserved their victory. | :01:02. | :01:19. | |
It will be interesting to see if Ronny Deila will use the Stokes and | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
Izaguirre, nation going forward. I think he will. I think he would be | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
mad not to. They have been so impressive tonight. Scott Brown gets | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
the Man of the Match from the sponsors. He does look back to full | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
fitness. He does. He has had an effective match. He has done his job | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
very professionally. I have seen him play better. For me the Man of the | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Match would have been Izaguirre. I think he has been a standout. There | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
have been a lot of good performances from Celtic players tonight. That | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
will please their manager. It was important for Ronny Deila to get a | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
result tonight. If I was him I would keep the same team. I would play the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
same team and let them build more partnerships like Izaguirre and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Stokes. Now the formation better. Build consistency. It is Ronny | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
Deila's team now, pretty much, albeit a good number of the players | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
were signed under the previous regime. He has got the team he wants | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
to have now. He will be pretty content with what he has seen in an | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
attacking sense. They have not really been tested, certainly not in | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
open play in this second half. Most of the opportunities that Hearts did | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
create work through Celtic's own mistakes. It cannot end quickly | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
enough for the men in maroon, well beaten in the end. The draw for the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
quarterfinals of the League Cup will be made after they are done at | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Tannadice. And Hamilton against Motherwell. The last we heard, both | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
ties were goalless. They started half an hour after this one. Great | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
play again by Izaguirre. Lovely pass with the outside of his boot. | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
Commons just strayed offside. If you are the Hearts players, just forget | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
all about it and look forward to Hamilton on Saturday. They will want | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
to keep their unbeaten league record going. Stevie Crawford alongside | :04:05. | :04:16. | |
Robbie Neilson on the Hearts bench. Former Raith Rovers striker. A | :04:17. | :04:30. | |
corner kick to Hearts. It will be just about the final act of this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
third round tie. It has been a bridge too far for a Hearts team | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
three points clear at the top of the Championship. Craig Gordon came off | :04:40. | :04:51. | |
his line. It is a Celtic free kick. It has gone behind for a goal kick. | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
Final thoughts? Celtic deserving the victory. It could have been very | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
different had Osman Sow scored his penalty. I do think Celtic would | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
have turned out to be victorious in the match anyway. For Hearts, there | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
was not too much to take from the game. They will not play a team like | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
this again, unless they get Celtic again this season. 12 months on from | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
an embarrassing exit at this stage of the competition to Greenock | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Morton, Ronny Deila guides Celtic past Hearts with an easy score line | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
in the end. John Guidetti the opener in the first half. Osmond so missed | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
a penalty. -- Osman Sow. Kris Commons with a penalty for Celtic. | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
And Eckersley scored an own goal for Celtic's third. Celtic going into | :05:57. | :06:08. | |
the quarterfinal draw. It is a cruise in the end for Celtic. They | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
look back to their best in an attacking sense. It finishes at | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
Celtic Park 3-0 to Celtic. So Celtic are a team number six | :06:18. | :06:58. | |
through to the quarterfinals of the League Cup. John Guidetti getting | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
his first goal for the club. John, how pleasing is it to get your | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
first goal? It is fantastic. We needed a win. We played really well | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
today. It is always nice to get your first goal. You getting used to | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
playing with Celtic now? Getting the first goal must give you great | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
confidence? Yes, but I have confidence because I am playing with | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
great players. I know chances will come. The boys have been great to me | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
ever since I came. Taking care of me. When you come into such a great | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
group, it is easy to adapt. Your goal settled nerves just after | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Hearts had missed a chance to pull level. Very crucial that you didn't | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
make the same mistake as Osman Sow? Yes. I scored one a couple of days | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
ago. I have got to keep changing it. Make sure I pick my spot. It just | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
shows you, if they scored it would put a different convex on the game. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
At 2-0 makes it a lot more relaxed. As soon as we got the second we | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
played with a lot more freedom. You guys have got some on the options in | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
attacking positions. What has this guy brought to the team? Just a | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
freshness. Wonderful movement, good touch, Nosworthy back of the net is, | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
at least after ten minutes! You can see he is highly talented. He will | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
get better. We will get a good relationship going, get more goals | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
and win some trophies. John, do you feel there is more to come from | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
you? Of course. We improve all the time. Me and Chris we are starting | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
to find each other. We can find each other even more. It is normal. It | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
takes some time to get to know each other. It felt better today. It felt | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
better second half. We are gradually getting better and better and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
hopefully we can win trophies. There is a lot of competition. It seems as | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
though the manager wants to play essentially one main striker. You | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
have to be at the top of your game if you want to be in the first 11? | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Listen, at the end of the day it is about winning trophies for the club. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
We have got some Enyeama is we need the full squad. Every time you go | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
out you want to make yourself proud and the team proud. We need the | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
whole squad. It is not enough for one guy to do his job. You need 11 | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
players to do their job. Well done. Let's catch up on what is happening | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
in the other two ties which are very much ongoing in this League Cup | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
competition. The Dundee derby at Tannadice. Dundee United almost | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
conceding an own goal. Dundee down to ten men, Rob. Martin Boyle got a | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
straight red card for denying Armstrong a clear goal-scoring | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
opportunity. Dundee had a penalty saved ten minutes later. It is all | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
united. They have rattled the woodwork twice. Dundee have just | :10:39. | :10:50. | |
chipped one over the bar. This one is raging from end to end. Dundee | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
trying to fight their way back into the game, down to ten men. | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
A let down at Tannadice. Richard Wilson cannot do much better at New | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Douglas Park? I'm afraid not. Hamilton reduced to ten men when | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Stephen Hendry was sent off for his second yellow card. Lots of effort, | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
lots of industry, lots of sweat spilled for the cause but not enough | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
accomplishment from either side in this game. Chances at a premium. The | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
second half has not delivered much. Motherwell had a claim for a penalty | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
when aim is worth saw a shot blocked inside the referee was not having | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
any of it. -- Hainsworth. Coverage of those ties continuing on | :11:42. | :11:55. | |
BBC radio Scotland. I live television matched tonight ended | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Celtic three, hearts zero. Comfortable in the end, Charlie, for | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Celtic but a couple of scary moments? Yes, the penalty was a big | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
moment in the game. Hearts miss it and we get one at the other end and | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
we managed to score it. It was a good performance. Definitely | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
encouraging signs. Hearts will feel they have made too much of a | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
contribution to the Celtic win themselves? I don't think there is | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
any doubt about it. I cannot remember Hearts put a tackle in in | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
the second half. In the defining moment of the game, Hearts had a | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
part to play in their own downfall. The first couple of goals were poor | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
defending. There was no need for Ozturk to challenge good -- Guidetti | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
for the challenge. It was pretty poor for hearts. -- Hearts. C from | :12:56. | :13:07. | |
Ronny Deila. -- let us hear. How pleased were you with the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
performance? I am very pleased. We are going in the right direction all | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
the time. What I am most pleased with is that we worked as a team, 11 | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
players who want to win the ball, are working together. We had the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
ball a lot. And we are starting to create something along the sides. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Especially with Stokes and Amelia. It was good. That is something to | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
build on. -- Amelio. Amelio and Anthony Stokes made summary | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
chances. Is that something you would like to see more of in future? My | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
philosophy in football, we need to be very dangerous on the sides and | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
in the centre. I think to create on the sides, we can do better. Today | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
we did that on the left side. And we kept a clean sheet as well. That was | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
good. John Guidetti got his first goal for the club. He is not a man | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
who lacks confidence. But strikers thrive on that, don't they? Yellow | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
macro yes, he is a very good boy. He works hard every day. He has been | :14:25. | :14:36. | |
out for a long time. That is why he cannot sustain 90 minutes. But he | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
had a huge impact on the game. The clean sheet must be hugely | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
encouraging. There were a couple of chances for Hearts. Things could | :14:46. | :14:57. | |
have been quite different? You can say so. We gave away chances. That | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
is easy to do. These are just individual things. That is something | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
we can do much better on on Saturday. Is giving away a chance | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
here and there is something you are willing to sacrifice because you | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
want to be as positive as possible? I would rather win 5-4 than 1-0. But | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
the best win would be 5-0! Into the quarterfinals now. You were asked | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
about the prospect of maybe meeting Rangers. Would you like that to | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
happen in the quarterfinals would you rather ideally save that for the | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
final? We are looking forward to the next game anyway. We are comparable | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
that we have a very good team. Whoever we need they will have a big | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
challenge. With the games coming thick and fast, you have St Mirren | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
in the league and another European tie here against Dinamo Zagreb, | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
would you like to stick with the 11 who were so impressive tonight? Umax | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
-- yellow macro we have players on the bench coming along well. It is | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
important to keep consistency and. If you change too much and you don't | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
do well, I can understand why. Ronny Deila, the victorious Celtic | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
manager, talking about a lot of things. Including the threat from | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Celtic down the left-hand side. The linkup between Stokes and is Greer. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
Does that may be mean he should be thinking about playing a more | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
settled team more often? There were six changes between Salzburg and | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Sunday. It always helps when there is a settled team, a settled back | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
four. I think the manager is still finding out who his best team is. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
The combination on the left side tonight was brilliant. I think that | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
is a big thing the manager wants. That combination in the wide areas. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
They got that right tonight definitely. Let us look back on some | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
of the key moments of the match. We will do that in a second. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Robbie Neilson is in the tunnel. Robbie, obviously this was a big | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
task, into Celtic Park to face the Premiership champions. Do you feel | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
that Hearts give it all they could? I thought the game hinged on the | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
penalty. We went behind but we still stayed strong. We had some good | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
passing. We hit the crossbar. In the second half we missed a penalty and | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
the game totally changed from there. It was very difficult from there. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
The crowd got behind them, the atmosphere changed. But even then I | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
thought we still plastered. It is a hard place to come. I am pleased | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
with the performance overall. Disappointed with the score. But at | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
the end of the day the league is the big thing for us. I guess every goal | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
is avoidable but in terms of the three you did concede, was it | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
disheartening that you were probably your own worst enemies with them? | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Yes. We defended well. The back four were fantastic. Disappointed to lose | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
goals. Every gold is avoidable. Every goal you can TrackBack to a | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
mistake somewhere. I would rather defend badly in the League Cup. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Other number of things you can take from this game in terms of the | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
positive aspects? Definitely. There are not many teams who will come to | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
Parkhead and pass as well as we did. Try to move them about and control | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
the game. Disappointed with the score but pleased with the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
performance. They passed it, they moved, they created good | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
opportunities. Commiserations to. Thank you. | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Swedes have a history at Celtic. I am not suggesting that John Guidetti | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
is the new Henrik Larsson but there was lots of encouragement from | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Internet? Definitely. He worked the well tonight. He worked hard up | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
there. He took his chance well. This was a great cross. It dropped to him | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
quickly. He realised he was not going to get on the end of that | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
cross but he held his position. That is good instinct from a striker. It | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
is poor defending but he is in that area. He still has a bit to do. It | :20:12. | :20:23. | |
was a good finish. That was Celtic's 1-0. We are about to see | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Hearts miss a chance. What we should be stressing bill before we see this | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
is that Celtic had half a dozen chances before Guidetti scored? It | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
could have been put to bed early on. It could have. The first 20 to 25 | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
minutes, Robbie would have been happy. But as the game wore on, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Celtic were opening Hearts up and creating chances. Just before | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
half-time, obviously, Celtic were almost the downfall of themselves. A | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
poor backpass towards Craig Gordon. Jamie Walker got onto it. He reacted | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
well. He has got to be scoring there. When you come to Celtic Park | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
and you get chances like that you have got to put them in the back of | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
the net. They are few and far between. Lo and behold in the second | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
half they got another fantastic opportunity with the penalty. You | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
have to get those chances in the back of the net. You were not | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
convinced this should've been a penalty for arts? -- Hearts. No. He | :21:34. | :21:50. | |
was leaning in. I don't think it is a penalty. There was not enough | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
contact. The difficulty is there, the Ryder Cup is coming up at | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Gleneagles, and that is getting the driver in and taking a wild swipe at | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
it! It was almost like a leisurely strike. What was Ozturk thinking | :22:12. | :22:23. | |
here? Again, absolutely no need to put any physical challenge in at all | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
there. The ball is running away from him, he is not going to get anywhere | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
near it. Self-inflicted. Fantastic finish from Kris Commons. Showing | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Osman Sow how to put the ball in the back of the net. What a contrast in | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
penalty taking in the space of a few minutes. The first one was too | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
casual. You see how to put a penalty away there. All you do is hit the | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
target. You so Charlie do that five years ago -- you saw me doing it | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
five years ago! It was not even that good! Make your mind up where you | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
are going to hit it and you don't change your mind. He looked a bit | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
too lackadaisical in his approach to the ball. Obviously tried to hit it | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
high. It was too lackadaisical for me. Hearts wanted to make Celtic | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
work for this win. They will be heading back to Edinburgh thinking | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
they played too big a part of themselves will stop an own goal to | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
round themselves -- to round things off? Is a great ball from Anthony | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Stokes. Maybe just headed out for a corner. He has tried to put it back | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
to the keeper when he should deal with it. It came from a throw in. A | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
fantastic ball across. In between the goalkeeper and the defenders. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
But from a throw in, you have got to set up. You cannot allow a simple | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
throw-in, a free cross and Eckersley will know himself that was a poor | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
goal to give away. This season for Hearts is not about winning tonight. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
It is all about getting promotion. Getting back into the big league. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
But they had a chance, didn't they? I think they did. Come to Celtic | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
Park tonight, Celtic have not had a great run of things yet. They have | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
not built up the momentum under Ronny Deila. If they had kept Celtic | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
on the back foot for at least 30 minutes, the crowd get anxious, the | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
players are unsure. But to lose a goal so early on, it changes the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
whole dynamic of the game. What pleased you most Charlie? I think | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
the second half, after we scored the penalty. The way we went forward and | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
pushed for more. We got confidence as the game went on. Anthony Stokes | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
and Izaguirre, the way they combined, that was a real positive. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Let's catch up on those other two League Cup ties ongoing. Still very | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
much in the balance. The Dundee derby at Tannadice. Dundee defending | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
further lives, down to ten men. United have been coming at them in | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
waves. This could be heading for extra | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
time. It could be a left shift for Jim | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Spence died. -- late shift. The same at New Douglas Park? Still 0-0. | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Hamilton down to ten men. Motherwell on top. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Those matches still very much up for grabs in terms of the last couple of | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
places in the quarterfinals of this League Cup competition. Coverage is | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
continuing on BBC radio Scotland. Let us recapture the story so far in | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
the quarterfinals of the League Cup in terms of results in the third | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
round. These are the results so far. Coverage of the two remaining ties | :26:19. | :27:21. | |
still ongoing on BBC Scotland. The draw will follow at Tannadice after. | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Thank you to Charlie Mulgrew and to Michael Stewart. 3-0 to Celtic. They | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
are in the quarterfinals. | :27:32. | :27:36. |