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Unbelievable! A spectacular opening goal in the Derby. The shop is an | :00:08. | :00:27. | |
absolute beauty. Is this a bit of history? It is. It is there. What a | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
finish. It is Celtic's League Cup. Every manager wants his name in the | :00:35. | :00:53. | |
history books. Jim McIntyre is the first ever Ross County boss to lead | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
his team to the League Cup semifinal. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
The breakthrough made! Ronny Deila has already lifted this | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
trophy, but he wants another one of the first step towards an historic | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
trouble. Celtic have won the competition 15 times, they are top | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
of the Premiership, 22 points ahead of Ross County. But the Highlanders | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
do not to click back to many pages for inspiration. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Ross County are going to the Scottish Cup final! | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
We are live at Hampden Park for the latest chapter in the League Cup | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
story. What is the storyline for the second | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
semifinal? Do Celtic take another step towards the treble? Or does | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
lightning strike twice for Ross County against Celtic at Hampden | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Park? It will unfold before your very eyes over the next couple of | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
hours. Who will take a step closer to getting their hands on this | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
trophy? It is the second semifinal of the Scottish League Cup, resented | :02:11. | :02:24. | |
by Utilita. It is live on the BBC. Accompanied by Alan Stubbs, Michael | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Stewart and Pat Nevin. Look forward to your spying mission on your | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
opponents? It is nice to be able to sit here, knowing that whoever we | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
are going to face, I can relax and watch the game. Do you have a tip? | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
No, I don't mind who we play. We are looking forward to it, we are glad | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
we are already there, we will see what prevails. The second semifinal, | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
the teams arrived around an hour ago, Leigh Griffiths leading Celtic | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
off the bus. They are the firm favourites for this. Jim McIntyre | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
hoping he can do what Derek Adams did in 2010. Jackson Irvin and his | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
performing ponytail part of a reshuffled Ross County line-up. | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
Details of both teams to follow. That go to our commentary team. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
I am not sure the weather will affect either team. A lot has been | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
made of the 2010 results, which was phenomenal for Ross County, but they | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
have played a lot since, and Celtic have won a lot. They will be | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
confident of doing so again today. Ross County are listed as the home | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
team. Jim McIntyre normally goes with two upfront. Against Celtic, a | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
little more cautious. A debut for Paul Quinn in defence, returning | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
from Aberdeen. An experienced player. He had to go strong in | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
midfield. Both teams are capable of scoring goals. Ross County have | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
conceded twice as many. If he can go in there and get parity with Celtic | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
in midfield, he can get players forward and pick off their defence. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
But you have got to stop Celtic playing. Still no Liam Boyce. For | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
Celtic, there were rumours that Scott Brown would be back today, he | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
is, but only on the bench. It is big news, and a boost for Ronny Deila to | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
call upon his skipper at some point today. Jozo Simunovic chapters not | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
make it. He is injured. His place goes to Dedryck Boyata, who comes | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
back. When they lose a player, a quality player comes in. You look at | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
different four. Gary Mackay-Steven missed the final last year as did | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Stuart Armstrong, they were not want that to happen again. Ross County | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
have to stop Leigh Griffiths. Those players were fantastic last year for | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Dundee United against Aberdeen, devastated on missing out in the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
final, but they can make amends today. Hibernian sitting at home | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
after their victory yesterday. All except their manager, Alan Stubbs, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
who is in the studio, but he says he is sitting confidently. All of the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Hibs fans will find out who they will face in March very soon. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Those are the selections, let's get the stories behind the decisions. | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
Three changes for you today, it looks as though you had some tough | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
choices to make. Yes, Liam Boyce has come back into training, but we feel | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
it is too soon for him. It is a risk we are not there to take. We have | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
left out Brian Graham and change the system to 4-1- 4-1. We have used | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
that twice this season before against Celtic and we have made good | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
opportunities. First and foremost, you need to deny them space and be | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
hard to break down, but you have to carry the threat. We did that in | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
both matches, but we did not punish them when the chances arose. Can you | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
take much inspiration from 2010? That team are held in such high | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
regard, and rightly so, it was a fantastic achievement. We have got | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to make our own memories. It would be great to do that today. We will | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
have to bring a top drawer performance. Hopefully we can. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
No real surprises in your line-up, is there a problem with Jozo | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Simunovic? He picked up an injury, he will be out for a while. It is | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
good to have Dedryck Boyata back. The rain is coming down, the picture | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
looks heavy, are you expecting a battle? It is always a battle, it is | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
a big game, so much to play for. But you need to play and get the tempo, | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
and we need to be in the last month, then we can have a good chance of | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
winning. There is always pressure on Celtic. It is about performances. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Ross County also want to get to the final. It will be tough, but we have | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
good confidence, we are looking forward to the game. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Celtic are aiming to reach their 86th major cup final, they have a | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
habit of getting the job done. Yes, they are a good team. I think it is | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
slightly harder for them to win the cups than it is to win the league, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
because you can slip up in the lead and you can make up for it, but in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the cups, to do the trouble, it is a big ask. People together granted. It | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
is hard to do in Scottish football. It will be tough today. The | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
transformation in Ross County has been dramatic, a year ago they were | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
adrift at the bottom of the Premiership, now they are one step | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
away from a cup final. Jim has done a brilliant job, he has brought in | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
some good players. If you look at what he had and what he has now, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
there has been a big overhaul. They are getting their rewards. Michael | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
Gardyne could be an interesting player in this game. He started his | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
career at Celtic, he is in his third spell at Ross County, he seems to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
have this ability to make himself and his team-mates perform. It will | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
be important for Ross County, because they will play with one of | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the top, rather than the normal two, so he will be vital to get up and | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
support. This is a perfect example of him coming in off the line. A | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
great header. These things will be important, | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
especially on a big part like this, getting up and supporting the | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
striker. And finishing off well as well. He is a big player for them. | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
Out in the wide area, attacking the full-back and finishing up with a | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
really good strike. It seems as if he has settled, sometimes you find | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
that with players, they are comfortable at certain clubs, it | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
does not work for him moving around, but Ross County is a nice fit. It | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
looks like an unfamiliar Ross County setup, it is all very simple what | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
they try to do, Alex Schalk is upfront, he is not an out and out | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
striker, but Jim McIntyre making the point, they have gone with one of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
top before. He said you need to stay in the game and be early on. If you | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
look at the bench, they have got Liam Boyce, Brian Graham, he has to | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
make sure they still in the game as it develops. If you go open, you | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
could be well beaten. In the last five games, Celtic have been | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
stunning. You need to keep them quiet for as long as possible, hence | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
the little adaptation. I suspect a lot of the time it will be 4-5- one. | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
It is an interesting one for the opposition manager coming up against | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Celtic, you have to be difficult to beat, but you cannot allow the game | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
to be taking part in your own half, you have to offer a threat to | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Celtic. Sometimes when you set up like this, the game becomes what you | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
don't want, and you are on the back foot. Guys like Michael Gardyne will | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
be aborted as an outlet to get them up the park and pose the threat. We | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
were looking at Allen to pick out a key player for Celtic, it is | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
difficult to avoid Leigh Griffiths, and a lot of Ross County's plan is | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
to stop him. He has been on fire. You only have to look at his | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
movement as well as his golf and his linkup play. He is so clever. The | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
way he strikes a ball is different class. Everybody wants to try to | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
stop him, but they are not stopping him. He has really grown as a | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
player. All of his weaker points, they have strengthened. At Celtic, | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
you have to grow in stature as a player. You have to embrace the size | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
of the club. He is filling in the striker's shoes unbelievably well. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Do you mind if we look at the first semifinal? Not at all! Brief | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
highlights from Tynecastle yesterday, Hibs against St | :11:51. | :11:51. | |
Johnstone. A penalty kick. Chris Mellor takes | :11:52. | :12:08. | |
Henderson down just inside the box. The finger-pointing in the face from | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
Stephen Maclean. He is incensed by Henderson going down. The officials | :12:15. | :12:28. | |
have taken the decision. Stephen Maclean the referee being told in no | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
uncertain terms by this and Johnstone striker, who is shown the | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
yellow card. He goes to challenge. Henderson looked very keen to go | :12:35. | :12:54. | |
down. Regardless, Hibernian have the opportunity to take the lead at | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Tynecastle. Jason Cummings rolls it into the bottom corner. Hibernian of | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the CHAMPIONSHIP make the breakthrough. As cool as you like, | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Jason Cummings /sit past the goalkeeper. Could Hibernian be on | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
their way to Hampden Park? St Johnstone are back on level | :13:19. | :13:41. | |
terms. They have only been behind the three minutes. They will feel it | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
is very much deserved. Joe Shaughnessy up from the free kick. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
There was no chance the goalkeeper was going to keep that out, superbly | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
directed. A free kick right on the edge of the | :13:59. | :14:23. | |
box. It is Hibs' turn to be incensed by the decision. I am not sure there | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
was any more contact on this occasion than there was last time. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
It clipped the top of the bar. Inches away from putting St | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
Johnstone in front. So unlucky. You could see he was going about. | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
So close to his first Hibernian goal. The Hibs fans really feel the | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
game is theirs for the taking at the moment. | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
A beautiful goal. A blistering effort from the midfielder. | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Hibernian are back in front. This is no more than a half chance | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
John McGinn. But boy, did he let rip. His fourth macro goal of the | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
season. As he put Hibs into the final of the league cup? | :15:46. | :15:57. | |
He can't quite finish it. That is twice Dagnall has had a good | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
opportunity and twice he has just missed the target. It was a narrow | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
angle. What a pass. He could not squeeze it in at the far post. | :16:16. | :16:32. | |
Lovely turn away from Davidson. John McGinn is offside. What a run. He | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
went past three, four defenders before a despairing challenge. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
It was some advert for a Scottish football. An electric atmosphere. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Both teams gave are delighted. They probably created more chances but we | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
still had good opportunities. The keeper made a great save. A couple | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
of header Blocked. We are disappointed but we will pick | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
ourselves up and go on with the league campaign. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Poor Tommy Wright, the victim of that terrible penalty decision. What | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
do you think of it? I have seen it a few times. I think Liam takes a | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
really good touch into the box. The player has made an action towards | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the ball. And looking at it from Stephen's angle now, it looks like | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
it is a penalty. If you see the one from behind, they are again it looks | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
like a penalty. It does not make any difference if there is the slightest | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
bit of contact or it is heavy contact, if I was Tommy be | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
disappointed. The referee could not have been any closer. He could not. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
But watching replays, it is unfortunate for St Johnstone. As | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
there is what you think is contact, Davidson was in Stephen McClane's | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
line-of-sight. Any contact would have happened on the other side of | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Liam Henderson to where Steven MacLean is standing. I can | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
understand why he has given the penalty. It is quite clear that | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
there is not contact. But I can understand why Liam Henderson has | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
gone down. If you are running into the box at pace like that, nine | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
times out of ten Chris Mullen would have put his foot out to win the | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
ball. But he has been unfortunate to have the penalty given against him. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
There has not been contact. But I can understand why it has been | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
given. Very hard to take for St Johnstone. Pat, what did you think | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
it? At the risk of offending the manager, I think it was a soft | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
penalty. If there is the slightest bit of contact, and I did ask Alan | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
beforehand, and he said there was a bit of contact, if there is the | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
slightest bit of contact, it is a penalty kick. Tommy's reaction was | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
brilliant. OK, sometimes these go for you, sometimes they don't. We | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
did not play as well. It was the first goal 03. St Johnstone | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
equalised pretty quickly. In a way there was talk about who was under | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
pressure and who was not under pressure. It kind of was St | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
Johnstone. They came back into it. Hibs have looked really strong. They | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
are on a great run right now. Lots of confidence. It was a hard one. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
Michael was mentioning it before is that five in a row? There is that | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
big crowd behind them and that certainly helped yesterday for Hibs. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Everything was against St Johnstone. They gave a good account of | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
themselves. John -- John McGinn was a standout? He was very good | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
yesterday. His overall game is going to a higher level all the time. His | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
energy, his pace, his power. His cleverness. In the second half he | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
got stronger as the game went on. He had a few chances. I think if | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
anything, some people might look at the goalkeeper's position, but the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
fact John has hit it so well and he gets a little bit one-sided, which | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
catches him by surprise, it was a great strike. When I first saw that | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
clip, I thought Mannix might have been upset. But I totally agree with | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Alan, because he strikes it so early. There are a lot of bodies in | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
the way. John McGinn rides the tackle well and strikes it so early. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
It was also dipping. If it was coming at a straight angle, but it | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
was really dipping. It was quite harsh on the goalkeeper. A good hit. | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
Whoever we get today, whether it is Celtic, it will be a hugely | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
difficult game come for but we have got nothing to lose are fare. -- or | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
to fear. I fully believe in the group of players I have got. They | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
keep, not proving me wrong, but they keep getting over the questions I | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
have asked them and they keep delivering all the time. We are | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
enjoying what we are doing. We will see where it takes us and what we | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
can get at the end of it. It is not just about beating St Johnstone, it | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
is Dundee United and Aberdeen on the way to the final as well? Exactly. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Hibs have had a good season. There is a lot of pressure in the league, | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
trying to catch Rangers. But there is also something of, we can go out | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
and enjoy ourselves. When they play in the cup games, there is pressure | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
in every game, but may be slightly less in the cup. Celtic are under | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
more pressure here because they are expected to win the cup, they are | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
expected to win the trouble, they are hoping to win the travel. -- | :22:19. | :22:30. | |
trouble. Hibs strike me as a, not typical Hibs team. There has been | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
this accusation for some time, and having been there myself I know how | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
apprehensive the fans are, it strikes me as if this Hibs teams | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
just embrace it. I felt that when I first came into the club. It was | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
always a mentality of, it always happens to Hibs. It was always us. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
We tried to break that down. We feel there is a confidence now among the | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
fans, that they trust the players. It is great to see. Hibs are there. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Who will join them? Will it be Ross County? Will lightning strike twice? | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Will Celtic take another step towards what they hope will be a | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
travel? Time to get to the action. The second semifinal. Commentary | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
from Craig Paterson and Leah McLeod. Celtic can move a step closer to the | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
holy grail of a domestic clean sweep if they can see off Ross County | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
today. This coming just a few short days before a trip to their closest | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
league challengers, Aberdeen, where they have already lost this season. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Big games. But these are big game players. Ross County have had some | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
12 months. A superb escape from relegation. They are a top 16 in the | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Premiership. They are in their second major semifinal. What they | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
did in the first has provided the backdrop to this match. A lot has | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
changed since those days and Celtic have dominated the head-to-head | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
since, as they tend to do. Mikael Lustig continuing to set -- to | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
captain Celtic. He has been the deputy in the absence of Charlie | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
Mulgrew and Scott Brown. He has had that long spell out injured. We will | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
get to him in a moment. Andrew Davies is the Ross County skipper. | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
Paul Quinn back for a second spell. All things considered, it is a | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
fairly unusual Ross County line-up. Ian McShane... Liam Boyce not ready | :24:47. | :25:05. | |
to start. Craig: unavailable. There is a debut for Paul Quinn at the | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
heart of defence. Jackson Irvine gets a crack at his old team. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Scott Brown is back in the Celtic squad but only makes the bench. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Simunovic is out injured. Dietrich Boyata comes back after more than a | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
month out. Gary Mackay-Steven started his career at Ross County | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
and you would not bet on -- against Leigh Griffiths adding to his goal | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
tally already this season. Good news for Ronny Deila not just | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
for today but for the rest of the campaign, Scott Brown back. Boyce, | :25:41. | :25:54. | |
Graham and De Vita can all add -- ad attacking threat for Ross County | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
later today. Our referee today is Craig Thomson. The 43-year-old | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
enjoying his 14th season as a top-flight official. | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
There is Paul Quinn. He sealed his return here in the week from | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
Aberdeen. He scored the winner for the Dons at Pittodrie in November. | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
He has returned. Jackson Irvine came to Ross County for first-team | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
action. He did not get a crack of the whip at Celtic. There is | :26:29. | :26:42. | |
Dietrich Boyata. -- Dietrich Boyata. Craig Gordon was sent off in the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
controversial Scottish Cup semifinal against Caledonian Thistle last | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
spring. Ross County looking to reach their first ever Scottish League Cup | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
final. Celtic aiming for a final number 31. They are big favourites. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
The right to face Hibernian in the 70th staging of this showpiece is | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
the prize on offer back on the 13th of March. Craig Paterson, what do | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
you think? I am really looking forward to it. Mackay-Steven has | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
given Celtic a dream start! Inside 30 seconds. A sensational start for | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
the holders. Unbelievable. I was just about to say and would like to | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
see the team settle into the game and Celtic pick of Ross County in | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
the first minute. Leigh Griffiths is through, brilliant play. He could | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
have taken the goalkeeper on himself. Set it on a plate for his | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
team-mate. A dream start for Celtic. A nightmare for Jim McIntyre. I | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
thought he would go himself. Great team play. Gary Mackay-Steven got | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
off the market earlier in the week against St Johnstone. His third of | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
the season. That is the stuff that nightmares are made of four Jim | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
McIntyre. Ronny Deila has just watched Gary Mackay-Steven put his | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
team in front before we truly got started. Griffiths in again. There | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
is a shout for a penalty. It is all Celtic. They are all over Ross | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
County like a rash. Ross County have got to settle down and get | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
themselves into this game. Celtic can smell blood, having scored | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
early. This is a massive test of character | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
for Ross County. But here is the most recent assault on the Ross | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
County rearguard. Andrew Davies is deeper. It is a wonderful ball. If | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
the first touch is better, he is through. No penalty but as we say, | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
Celtic have started on the front foot, they got the goal. Ross County | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
have got to find a way to settle. An amazing start. Ross County had a | :29:11. | :29:23. | |
free kick. -- have a free kick. Alex Schalk one of those waiting for the | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
delivery. This would be some time to level | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
proceedings. Davis had to spin. Davis was | :29:34. | :30:03. | |
practical there. Gave away an opening penalty on the opening day | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
of the league season against Celtic. The pitch is slippery underfoot. A | :30:08. | :30:22. | |
great day for forwards. Players who want to go by players will have a | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
field day. We will see a few challenges like that as well. | :30:28. | :30:35. | |
Gary Mackay-Steven putting Celtic in front on 27 seconds. T-Dog by Leigh | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Griffiths. Part of the Rangers squad that lost | :30:41. | :30:57. | |
to Celtic a year ago today in this competition. Stuart Armstrong was | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
part of the Dundee United side that beat Aberdeen, with Gary | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
Mackay-Steven. It is a corner. The movement of the Celtic front players | :31:11. | :31:18. | |
is causing problems for Ross County. A heavy touch, if he takes a better | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
touch, it would have been real trouble for Ross County. | :31:23. | :31:32. | |
Celtic looking for a quickfire second. It is off the line by | :31:33. | :31:41. | |
Richard Foster. Ross County are right up against the rotator. Celtic | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
are going for it, they think they can finish the game early. Good | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
defending, stay on the line, don't get carried away. Clear your lines. | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
Kieran Tierney has impressed so much this season. | :32:01. | :32:11. | |
Mikael Lustig will be surrendering the armband pretty soon. Scott Brown | :32:12. | :32:21. | |
is back among things. So many big games coming up Celtic hunt down | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
three trophies. It is not something that happens too often, only Jock | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
Stein and Martin O'Neill have guided Celtic to Troubles, it has only | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
happened three times in their history, but they need somebody like | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
Scott Brown around. To get him back on the pitch would be a massive | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
bonus. Having him in the dressing room is one thing, but you can | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
influence games on the park. His drive and enthusiasm are infectious. | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
Marcus Fraser one of the several Ross County players today who began | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
their career acts uptake. Michael Gardyne is another who began | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
his career at Celtic. And Scott Fox. Paul Quinn has recent experience of | :33:07. | :33:28. | |
going 1-0 down to Celtic and winning the game. | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
It is not a badge right at all, Craig Gordon had to look very | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
lively. A great save. That is more like it from Ross County, get into | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
the danger area. Slick passing. That is a magnificent hit, really strong. | :33:48. | :33:55. | |
Alex Schalk gets over the ball and fires it, a great save by Craig | :33:56. | :33:56. | |
Gordon. Alex Schalk scored against | :33:57. | :34:08. | |
Dunfermline in the Scottish Cup recently, in the fourth round. Ross | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
County needed a replay against the League 1 leaders. He fouled by | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
Martin Woods. I am sure there are many Celtic | :34:17. | :34:26. | |
supporters who are inside Hamden today who were here almost six years | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
ago, incredible to think it is almost six years since Ross County | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
shocked Celtic, that it is one thing that's back one way to exorcise the | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
ghosts, to score so early. Ross County wanted to block up the | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
midfield area, stop Celtic playing, and from there get players forward | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
into attacking areas. Now that plan that they have been working on is up | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
in the air, and Jim McIntyre has to trust his players to dig themselves | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
back into the contest. You might notice that the Celtic players are | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
wearing black armbands, for their former player John Dowie, who passed | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
away at the age of 60 the other week. | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
It is the same combination that led to the opener. Jim McIntyre will be | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
concerned, every time Celtic get into the final third, they are | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
slicing open the Ross County rearguard. It is the movement of | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
Leigh Griffiths, he is hard to pin down. His touch is good and he is | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
looking to feed in team-mates. He looks like the complete player. | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
It is Efe Ambrose again, he ought to have done better. That is a real | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
chance. He is up and over Andrew Davies, that he has to hit the | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
target. He knocks it a mile wide. A lot of players between him and the | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
back of the net, but the least he has to do is hit the target and work | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
the goalkeeper. Another sigh of relief for Ross County. They could | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
have conceded a couple if not three by | :36:18. | :36:38. | |
It looks as though Stewart Murdoch will be the ride's the wide right | :36:39. | :36:49. | |
midfielder. Michael Gardyne, the only survivor from the victory in | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
2010, in the starting XI. Scott Wood is on the bench. | :36:54. | :37:05. | |
A slight misunderstanding between Dedryck Boyata and Efe Ambrose. They | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
will not have played together to often. Jozo Simunovic has been the | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
preferred option since he got himself fit. He is out injured | :37:16. | :37:25. | |
today. I wonder if we will see Erik Sviatchenko today, the Danish new | :37:26. | :37:34. | |
signing, among the subs. Effie Armstrong was signalling to the | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
bench earlier. The game is settling down a bit. It was a whirlwind | :37:42. | :37:50. | |
start. Celtic looking for back-to-back League Cup triumphs | :37:51. | :37:52. | |
after beating Dundee United last year. 2-0. | :37:53. | :38:04. | |
Callum McGregor has worked his socks off to get back into the side. Good | :38:05. | :38:12. | |
covering by Stefan Johansen. A good response from Ross County. | :38:13. | :38:52. | |
That is what they need to do, have a bit of time in the Celtic off, get | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
their foot on the ball, get over the early blow. | :38:56. | :39:15. | |
It is another red card for Celtic in a semi-, and it is Efe Ambrose who | :39:16. | :39:25. | |
goes. This has turned on a sixpence. It is a big decision for the | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
referee. Effie Ambrose brings the player down. Is it a goal-scoring | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
opportunity? I am not sure he has any option at all. The referee is | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
having none of it. Celtic were reduced to ten against Inverness in | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
last season's Scottish Cup final. It just crept through. Does he catch in | :39:47. | :39:58. | |
with a knee? As soon as the referee things it is a penalty, | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
unfortunately he has got to give the red card. A lot of people do not | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
like the double whammy, it is like getting two prizes, but Ross County | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
could be right back in this game. Martin Woods will take the spot | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
kick. Liam Boyce amongst the substitutes. Effie Ambrose has come | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
off, there will be a debut for Erik Sviatchenko in a moment. The has to | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
decide who he will sacrifice. It will be Callum McGregor coming off. | :40:29. | :40:41. | |
He is the unfortunate man, but this has been a huge blow for Celtic in | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
the last minute or so. It is Erik Sviatchenko who is on for a debut. | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
Celtic are down to ten. Ross County have a penalty. Martin Woods against | :40:52. | :41:01. | |
Craig Gordon. Martin Woods has yet to score this season. He has now. | :41:02. | :41:12. | |
Ross County level the semifinal, and has the pendulum swung the way of | :41:13. | :41:13. | |
the highlanders? Celtic protested loudly in the wake | :41:14. | :41:50. | |
when Ambrose brought down Alex Schalk. Did not look like there was | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
too much contact. Just enough for him to point to the spot. | :41:59. | :42:28. | |
The referee has no option. The minute he says penalty, red card, | :42:29. | :42:36. | |
Celtic are down to ten men. Celtic do not have to look back very far to | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
find a recent example where Ross County lost the game of football | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
against the team playing with ten men. It was in Dingwall against | :42:45. | :42:46. | |
Aberdeen. I am sure that will be fresh in the | :42:47. | :43:08. | |
mind of Jim McIntyre. A very different semifinal from the one we | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
thought after one minute. I wonder if Jim McIntyre is now looking at | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
the formation thinking, now I have the extra man, do you bring Jim | :43:19. | :43:20. | |
Boyce on now? Free kick. Margaret gets a yellow. | :43:21. | :43:32. | |
The player has skinned him. How much will the recent game | :43:33. | :44:11. | |
against Aberdeen play on the minds of these county players? It is | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
almost the same personnel and there? Paul Quinn has arrived. Playing a | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
team with a man less and yet you lose the game. The differences this | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
is a semifinal. In the early part of their work goal down, Celtic were on | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
top. It is a huge lift. I think Ross County will fancy their chances. | :44:35. | :44:49. | |
Sviatchenko was signed for 1.5 million from his club in Denmark. | :44:50. | :44:58. | |
Scored against France in a recent friendly. | :44:59. | :45:29. | |
Just crept away from Leigh Griffiths. Celtic's man of the | :45:30. | :45:40. | |
season. Almost got it back from Mackay-Steven. They have combined | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
well in the early stages. It was that combination that led to the | :45:44. | :45:45. | |
Celtic goal. Sviatchenko is not exactly coming | :45:46. | :46:08. | |
and cold. He is new to Scottish football but he has played for his | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
Danish club regularly. Trying to strike up some kind of understanding | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
with your fellow defenders is not easy in this situation. You are down | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
to ten men. Gary Mackay-Steven and Armstrong will have to leave Leigh | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
Griffiths up there as a lone striker. A foul by Marcus Fraser on | :46:30. | :46:31. | |
Armstrong. Mackay-Steven and Armstrong made | :46:32. | :47:15. | |
immediate impressions when they arrived at Celtic. Both scored on | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
their debut. The 16th meeting between the clubs. | :47:19. | :47:53. | |
Ross County won only one other than that semifinal. | :47:54. | :48:30. | |
Celtic have been relatively convincing winners in the league | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
games between the teams. 2-0 on the opening day of the season. The | :48:37. | :48:48. | |
second game, more recently, was a 4-1 win for Celtic at Dingwall. | :48:49. | :49:01. | |
A young player coming through, given the opportunity. He has grabbed it | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
with both hands. He does look a real prospect. He has been trusted by | :49:08. | :49:16. | |
Ronny Deila in the European matches as well. | :49:17. | :49:37. | |
Good play. Mackay-Steven has had a burst of confidence. It is amazing | :49:38. | :49:49. | |
what a goal will do for you. It was a slow start to the season for him. | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
Boyata is very advanced, the centre have. -- half. | :49:56. | :50:42. | |
Armstrong... Off Fraser Forster is Celtic corner. This chance all about | :50:43. | :50:55. | |
Tierney and his ability to drive past players. The minute you do | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
that, defenders have to readjust. Celtic must get themselves in. A | :51:00. | :51:01. | |
good block by the defender. That will please Jim McIntyre, that | :51:02. | :51:20. | |
one of his players has won the ball from one of these Celtic's corners. | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
It was Paul Quinn who dealt with that one. Efe Ambrose, before he was | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
sent off, had a couple of headers from that situation. Yes, one good | :51:32. | :51:38. | |
header and one poor effort. He should have hit the target at least. | :51:39. | :51:51. | |
Griffiths. He chose his weaker foot. No offside. Armstrong was not far | :51:52. | :52:06. | |
away! A good effort. You could see the goalkeeper scrambling. A few | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
Ross County players switching off. You have got to react quickly. | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
Stuart Armstrong did. It is fine margins because Ross | :52:17. | :52:30. | |
County stopped for a split second in anticipation of an offside flag. | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
That could have cost them dear. By all means ask the question but do it | :52:37. | :52:37. | |
while you are getting back. Hibs already through to the final. | :52:38. | :52:59. | |
The 70th edition of this tournament. A 2-1 win over St Johnstone at | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
Tynecastle yesterday. The place was buzzing as Hibs marched through to | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
another cup final. A good squad being built by Alan Stubbs. He and | :53:14. | :53:26. | |
his men watching this with interest. Jim McIntyre might be considering | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
throwing the dice here. I am much if it is tactical or if there is a | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
problem. It looks as if Jonathan Franks will be on in a moment. | :53:37. | :53:48. | |
Franks is a wide man. Maybe just more natural width. Stewart Murdoch | :53:49. | :54:00. | |
down this side. Possibly in today for his defensive abilities. Now | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
they have the extra man, Ross County probably want a player with more | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
drive. It does not matter, as a player you will not like being | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
hooked. The manager does things for the good of the club. That is why | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
Jim McIntyre is in charge. He has to make these decisions. In particular | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
in a national semifinal. Stewart Murdoch is being replaced by | :54:28. | :54:28. | |
Jonathan Franks. Started his career at Middlesbrough, | :54:29. | :54:45. | |
Murdoch. Franks is on. A right-sided player. They must have feared the | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
worst inside 30 seconds of this game. | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
There has certainly been plenty to talk about. Even the award of the | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
penalty kick will cause some debate and consternation among the Celtic | :55:09. | :55:09. | |
supporters. Celtic have been in the the League | :55:10. | :55:31. | |
Cup final 30 times, they have won to 15. | :55:32. | :55:42. | |
Ross County well beaten by Dundee United in the 2010 cup final after | :55:43. | :55:50. | |
they had caused their semifinal shock. | :55:51. | :56:08. | |
The overlap from Forster. He tried to do too much himself, Gardyne. | :56:09. | :56:19. | |
Third spell at Ross County for Michael Gardyne. He is always going | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
to be an important player for them. Perhaps even more so now. When you | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
have an extra man you make the flanks as wide as possible. Get | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
themselves right on the touchline and try to spread Celtic. There will | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
be space in there somewhere. If you get width involved in the game, that | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
would give all the players a chance to get themselves into the box at | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
the right time. -- that will give other players. | :56:50. | :56:58. | |
A third of the way through, one apiece. Mackay-Steven scoring the | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
opener in the first minute. Efe Ambrose was sent off after spurning | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
a couple of good opportunities himself. Red card, penalty, stroked | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
home by Martin Woods. How do you play this now if you are | :57:14. | :57:25. | |
Ronny Deila? All you can do is play how you are. When you get the ball, | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
you still want Armstrong and Mackay-Steven to get forward. But | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
when you lose possession, get back and stop Ross County. A huge game | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
for a Ronny Deila. Aberdeen in midweek as well. | :57:44. | :58:03. | |
I just wonder how much of his long-term prospects rest on winning | :58:04. | :58:10. | |
all three trophies. The expectation is huge as manager of Celtic. | :58:11. | :58:28. | |
Good challenge. It is no mean feat getting past Tierney. A good | :58:29. | :58:53. | |
challenge by the 18-year-old. Craig Gordon looked a little bit | :58:54. | :59:12. | |
awkward in dealing with that one. Goalkeepers will always tell you the | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
modern-day ball moves from side to side. But you cannot take chances. | :59:16. | :59:29. | |
Ross County's second corner of the afternoon. | :59:30. | :59:50. | |
A potential Celtic counterattack. Ross County are getting back. | :59:51. | :00:23. | |
East Kilbride taking on Celtic a week today in the Scottish Cup. Live | :00:24. | :00:39. | |
on radio, television and online. And indeed the League Cup final next | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
month. How have Celtic reacted to going a | :00:41. | :00:56. | |
man down? Dealing with it well enough, the fact is, in order to win | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
a semifinal, you have got to score at some point, unless we go to | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
penalty kicks, so they have themselves settled... But Celtic are | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
hoping for one of those from three to produce a little bit of magic. | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
The days of replays in the League Cup long gone, and at this stage of | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the Scottish Cup, gone as well. County boss Jim McIntyre scored a | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
memorable winner for Dunfermline. County are seen a lot of the ball, | :01:25. | :01:47. | |
as you would expect, given the circumstances, ten minutes to | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
half-time. Jackson Irvine... Taking his time... | :01:50. | :02:42. | |
Taking too long over it. Pressure remains. Trying to be patient, Ross | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
County, at this stage of the game, it is an advantage to get the ball | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
into the danger area. Probing and prodding here, the stag | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
is -- the Staggies. The one difference, the one big | :02:59. | :03:17. | |
difference, between this game and that Ross County Aberdeen match, | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
when county had the numerical advantage, it is the fact that the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
pitch is enormous in comparison to the one up at Dingwall. And you get | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
the next wide man on. When you wide man is free it will come into the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
box, you need players trying to get onto the end of the crosses. | :03:40. | :04:07. | |
Celtic maintaining their superb scoring record this season, they | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
have only failed to score in four matches this campaign, twice | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
domestic, against Heart of Midlothian and, incredibly, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Kilmarnock. Two games in Europe. Both away from home, the Azerbaijan | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
team, and Malmo, Sweden. Ronnie Deila is hoping that he can | :04:25. | :04:46. | |
guide them into the group stage of the Champions League, it is a long | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
way off though, 1-1, against a stubborn Ross County side. Davis has | :04:51. | :05:02. | |
come of the worse. -- the Azerbaijan team Qarabag. Difficult to see if it | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
team Qaraba . Difficult to see if it was a facial knock, he has come down | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
awkwardly, they do not want to lose him. May have come down on the back | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
of an Drew Davis, as they were falling. They will be hoping it is | :05:17. | :05:31. | |
not a bad injury. Eyes on the ball. Andrew Davis, part of the Bradford | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
side that Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, in the FA Cup, last season. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Coming from behind to win that one, 4-2, in London. | :05:42. | :06:01. | |
They get the consolation prize of a corner. Great area, difficult for | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
defenders, goes out of a corner kick on and they are pleased to see that | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
one. The goalkeeper does well, new knows | :06:15. | :06:47. | |
that the boots will be flying, great flick at the front post, goalkeeper | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
getting a hand to it, he's hoping his defenders can deal with it. | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
Comes in and catches him but that is a genuine challenge. Lovely flick | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
from Mikael Lustig. You can see where the problem lies for Scott | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Fox. No problem with the challenge, the goalkeeper does not have the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
ball gathered, you have every right to knock that into the back of the | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
net. Looks like he will be OK. Arrived last summer, from Partick | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
Thistle, Scott Fox. What a start Celtic made through Gary | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Mackay-Steven. Laid on a plate by his team-mate, and at that point, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Celtic looked absolutely unstoppable. But one incident, one | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
decision, the penalty plus the sending-off, and Ross County are | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
right back in it. Aggrieved after the Scottish Cup final of last | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
season, the Josh Meekings handball that was not spotted. They have a | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
reason to be eye rake, and they are eye rake right now as well. He felt | :08:08. | :08:20. | |
that he was fouled, rather than complain to the referee, he wants to | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
get up and white into the challenge and he is penalised. | :08:25. | :08:58. | |
Waiting inside the box now. Griffiths... Does not normally need | :08:59. | :09:24. | |
an invitation, difficult one to take, that. | :09:25. | :09:36. | |
Celtic supporters trying to rouse their side. | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
Still a couple of minutes left in the first half, as it stands, there | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
will be a minimum of three minutes added on at the end of it full -- | :09:52. | :10:05. | |
added on at the end of it. Fouled by Fraser, he is going to be booked. | :10:06. | :10:17. | |
Talking about players trying to be a little bit too clever, Fraser was | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
put in that situation, but it was cynical. He knew what he was doing, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
when the player gets cold side, you do not know if you are short of men | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
at the back, taking one for the team, but the danger is not over, it | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
is a real chance for Celtic, with the free kick. I remember Virgil van | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Dijk scoring a free kick from this kind of area here, into that goal, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
in the semifinal against Caley Thistle last season. -- Inverness | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
Caledonian Thistle. Johannson, Armstrong, among the | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
players over this, it is Armstrong... Could not get the | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
purchase on the header. From the reaction from the Stig, you could | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
see that this was a chance, good ball in there, and he gets nothing | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
on the header. -- from the reaction from Mikhail Nastenko. -- Mikael | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
Lustig. Only 17 appearances last season, 29 this month. He had an | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
ankle injury. -- 29 last month. Lovely ball through... Gordon meets | :11:25. | :11:44. | |
him. Quality goalkeeping. Off his line quickly. The action swings the | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
other way. Three minutes of stoppage time have just been confirmed. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Lively first half. Onside... Gets it all wrong... | :11:57. | :12:23. | |
Tackled himself. Free kick. Operating on the | :12:24. | :12:42. | |
periphery of this game, Griffiths, albeit he did set up the goal from | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Gary Mackay-Steven. The game has become scrappy, neither team is any | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
good at holding onto the ball. Penny for your thoughts, to the | :12:51. | :13:20. | |
Bernie and players on loan from Celtic who will not be able to | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
feature for Hibs in the final if their parent club gets through | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
today, Anthony Stokes and Liam Henderson. -- -- Darfur | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
-- the two Hibernian players. Finishing the half strongly. You do | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
not want to knock it in like this. Challenge on Griffiths, the referee | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
nonplussed. It is now Ross County, in the opening minute of the first | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
half they went behind, now they are looking to do some damage in the | :14:00. | :14:00. | |
final minute. Vinyl first half minutes of great. | :14:01. | :14:17. | |
It has been interesting, early on Celtic looked on stoppable, they got | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the goal, but things change. -- final first half minutes of Craig. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
The sending-off has given Ross County a real chance, Celtic, ten | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
men, working that little bit harder, it is going to take its toll on the | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
legs, and that is when county will hope they can take advantage. Big | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
pitch, heavy pitch, rain continuing to tumble down onto the Hampden Park | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
surface. Half-time. BOOING Again, the referee making headlines, | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Gary Mackay-Steven made the early headlines, tapping into the empty | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
net after good setup led by Leigh Griffiths, county work are bright | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
open, Celtic were lightning in the early stages. Efe Ambrose had a | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
couple of opportunities before he was sent off by professional on Alex | :15:14. | :15:25. | |
Schalk, the spot kick was converted, by Martin Woods, and that means that | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
it is 1-1. STUDIO: Looked as if the second | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
League Cup semifinal might be done and dusted inside the first three | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
minutes, Celtic ahead, inside 30 seconds, and it could have been | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
worse for Ross County, but back they came, against ten man Celtic, Efe | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Ambrose sent off, Martin Woods scored the penalty, and it is 1-1 at | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
the national stadium at half-time. Let's get the thoughts of my guests. | :15:53. | :16:05. | |
We might have thought, you know who you would be facing in the final. I | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
think Jim would have been dreading those first few minutes, it could | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
have been over before it started. The chances Celtic had... Luckily | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
enough, they have got themselves back in the game, they had a nervous | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
start. As the game has gone on they have grown in confidence and they | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
are posing problems for Celtic. Jim McIntyre and Ross County must feel | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
they have won a watch. It was a nervous start as we said. They were | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
all over the place at the back and allowed Celtic to cause them real | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
problems. That sending off and penalty has got them back into it. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Not only had it allowed them back in but they have exploited that and | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
caused Celtic problems. Where is the match now, 11 against ten? It is | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
still fairly well balanced. Interesting substitution that the | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
manager made. I think it is very brave, bringing on an attack minded | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
player. He is going for it and you might as well, it is a semifinal. | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
But right at the start, anybody who watched Andy Murray starting this | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
morning, it wasn't very good and neither was it good for Ross County! | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
But they got that break. I think Celtic are still well in this, | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Griffiths is making fantastic positional moves and getting into | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
good areas and there are chances for Celtic to score. But we were talking | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
about the pitch, it is heavy, tough to play on, ten against 11. We might | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
have imagined part of Jim McIntyre's pre-match talk was to keep things | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
tight and Celtic scored after 27 seconds. You listen to his interview | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
and they wanted to contain Celtic and be hard to beat. And then this | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
happens. It is played up. This is straight from kick-off, we are | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
seeing all 27 seconds for the they were slightly asleep. They got | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
attracted to the ball. You have one centre-back staying back and three | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
pushing up and that leaves the gap. To be fair to Leigh Griffiths, you | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
are expecting him to finish that himself and it is unselfish. Very | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
unselfish. It just sneaks in from Mackay-Steven, I don't know why he | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
hasn't taken it with his left. He could have opened his body up, but | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
great play from Leigh Griffiths and Celtic were ruthless. As we said, | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
there were huge gaps in the Ross County backline and you can't have | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
that. If you are going to be hard to beat and put your stall out as being | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
difficult to beat, you can't have three pushing up and your full-back | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
five yards deeper because a team like Celtic will exploit it. And Jim | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
McIntyre put in Paul Quinn alongside Andrew Davies, getting to know each | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
other? Yes, and against very good players. Griffiths, it tells you | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
everything about how he has mature. It is phenomenal really. He is 90% | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
going to score but he knows it is 99% if he makes the pass. Very | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
impressed, everybody is talking about his percentages against other | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
fantastic players from the Celtic past but he does the might think. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
There were more chances -- the right thing. There were two or three | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
minutes of chaos at the back for Ross County after that and fortune | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
favoured them. There is Leigh Griffiths again pulling off the | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
centre-back and he is in. As a manager on the touchline, you are | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
thinking, come on come get yourselves together, settle down and | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
get some shape back. He pulled into a wider area this time. Foster is | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
running right across, Davies comes out to make the tackle and that | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
highlights what is going on. Ambrose wins this in the air from the | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
corner, it really was a nervous start and as a manager, you are | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
hoping that somebody at the back can grab it and say, let's concentrate. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
A lot of that is down to a lack of concentration. The chance for | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Griffiths, Paul Quinn is in a position where he has to see that | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Davies is five yards further deep and he has to drop off as well. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
Whether that is through not playing a lot of late, I don't know, but it | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
is a lack of concentration. Luckily for Ross County, they got away with | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
it. They did start to collect themselves and get a foothold in the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
game. This was a sign of their growing confidence. A good effort. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
They started playing better, Gardyne got quite involved. There were a | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
couple that Craig Gordon had to parry out. I thought this was a good | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
save because it is dipping, almost like the one against Hibs yesterday. | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
The keeper gets down well. They needed something like that to give | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
them a lift and a bit of belief because it had been sucked out of | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
them and they just about survived and then they got lucky. But is it | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
like? Or should be defended not be going in? 13th minute, unlucky for | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
Celtic. What about this? You look at it, initially you wonder if there | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
was contact but when you see the replay there is another angle that | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
will show you that his knee comes across and catches him. He does not | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
alter his stride pattern, he keeps running and he catches him. Do you | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
think Craig Gordon might have got the ball? This is a great penalty, | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
but, obviously it's a free kick, if he's not getting their then it's not | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
a red card because he will not get it. You can talk about that all day | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
long but it is poor defending. You look along the line as well, an | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
absolute disaster, the full-backs are the deepest players, the centre | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
halves are in front of them and that is a nightmare for a defence. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Ambrose is further in front, he is reacting slowly. We were in line | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
with the run and you think, you've got to stop. You have to be aware of | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
the fact that he's going to collide with him and he simply ran into him. | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
Either make the tackle and run the risk of a penalty, but he just ran | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
into him full sucked it is absolutely craving defending. Efe | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Ambrose has looked a bit clumsy at big moments at times this season. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
You can't do that at the back, if you turn off for a minute, it only | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
takes a minute as a centre-back. Maybe it was best to have just left | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
it for Craig Gordon. It was well done by the referee. I did not see | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
the touch. And well done to Martin Woods because what a delay there was | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
between a penalty being awarded and taken because they made the | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
substitution. They are supposed to be at an advantage. They are making | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
the substitution, he has to wait and keep his composure and he has dealt | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
with it really well and put it away. We were talking about it, I don't | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
know what the roles are but it strikes me as odd, was County have | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
got the penalty and Celtic can make the substitution. -- Ross County. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
Surely it has to happen after the penalty has been taken. I believe it | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
is in the laws that you can do it. If that's the case, there are | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
enough, that I think it was a bit odd that they had to wait even | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
longer for the substitution. We talked about Ross County | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
re-gathering themselves after the start and Celtic did so and then got | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
back into it even with ten. Again it is Leigh Griffiths who was central | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
to it. He looked sharp. This looked like it was dipping in, he has | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
caught it so well. A lot of the Celtic fans in front of us thought | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
it was in, it catches the top of the net. You wondered if it had gone in. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Ross County had a lot of bodies behind the ball but Celtic have the | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
quality to still fashion a chance. And a glorious scramble inside the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
box after a corner. Fox made a couple of saves and he was brave and | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
he had to be. The ball was just dropping. He does it twice, goes for | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
the first and gets a good palm on it, it comes back and he reacts | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
quickly. He is brave again and throws his body on the line. It | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
underlines again, Celtic, typical Celtic, a man down but they are not | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
sitting back, they are trying to win the game. This is where it becomes | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
an interesting tactical battle between the managers. Jim McIntyre | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
has gone with two wide men, bring on Franks and push Gardyne on. It was | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
partly to stop Tierney. There has been a lot of action where Tierney | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
has had to defend. Irvine has picked up a lot of balls and there has been | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
a lot of two against ones. He has shown himself to be a good defender | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
but it is difficult at full-back when it is too on one. For Jemima -- | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
for Jim McIntyre, he might take a lot of insight from the semifinal | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
last year where the Inverness kept laying against Celtic down to ten | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
men and that is what they have to do -- kept playing. Let's have a look | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
at the roller-coaster of emotions on the touchline and they have been | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
ever-changing. Jim McIntyre must have been suffering in the opening | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
moments as Ronny Deila's team made such an impressive start. Then the | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
sending of an all change, they have been practising that! They have been | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
spending too much time together! How have Ross County done with 11 | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
against ten? They have grown in confidence. Since the penalty, it | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
gave them a lift and more belief to get on the ball. They have been | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
better with the ball. Early on they could not get hold of it. Now they | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
have started to cause Celtic a few problems, vetting into better areas | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
and they are starting to play further up the pitch -- getting. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
Will there be a time for Liam Boyce, Craig Curran? I am sure Jim McIntyre | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
will have an idea in his head, especially for getting boys onto the | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
park. We looked at their formation and wondered if Schalk would be | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
isolated. -- Boyce. But they will have to continue to push up in the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
second half. Will there be a time for Scott Brown? That might be the | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
most interesting thing, the subsidiary is made by Ronny Deila | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
burqas he will have to -- the substitutions made by Ronny | :28:55. | :29:11. | |
Deila because he will have to use them. What he does from here on in, | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
big moments. It is intriguingly poised. This is the story so far. | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
Celtic striking inside 27 seconds, Gary Mackay-Steven set up by Leigh | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
Griffiths. It could have got worse but it got better for Ross County | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
with a red card for Efe Ambrose and the penalty expertly converted by | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
Martin Woods and that is where we are. 11 man Ross County against ten | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
man Celtic. 1-1 at half-time. Over to the second half with Craig | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
Patterson and Liam McLeod. COMMENTATOR: It would be a big risk | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
bringing on Scott Brown unless they have to, he has not played since the | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
21st of November, a draw at home against Kilmarnock. No further | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
changes at the interval for either team. County have beaten a united, | :30:12. | :30:20. | |
Falkirk and the cup-holders Inverness Caley Thistle to get to | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
this stage -- Ayr United. Leigh Griffiths scored what he described | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
as his favourite Celtic goal at Tynecastle. Ross County Boss last | :30:35. | :30:48. | |
win over Celtic was in 2013. -- Ross County's last win over Celtic. Their | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
only other victory over them was here in that Scottish Cup semifinal. | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
It is Celtic attacking the east end of Hampden Park. In the green and | :31:02. | :31:02. | |
white. Ross County in the navy blue. We have seen him score goals with | :31:03. | :31:20. | |
his head many times in the Celtic shirt. CO-COMMENTATOR: Too far away | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
for Leigh Griffiths, not enough on the ball, tries to generate power | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
but never going to beat the goalkeeper. Scored a terrific goal | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
for Hibernian in that sensational 4-3 victory over Falkirk in the | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
Scottish Cup, proved to be the winner, the day after, Celtic came | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
here and won 4-3 against Andy United! Scored the winner. Usual go | :31:45. | :32:01. | |
to player. In situations like this. Some afternoon for him if he can | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
help Celtic through to the final against his boyhood heroes, does not | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
disguise the fact that he loves Hibernian football cup, they lie in | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
wait for the victors of this tussle. -- he is your go to player. Extra | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
time and penalties can be the decider tonight. But you would bet | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
against that. Extra time, that reduces the ability to make | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
substitutions for the manager, you have got to hold one back for extra | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
time, in case there is sudden cramp or an injury, so before the end of | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
the 90 minute I should imagine there will only be one change by either | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
manager. Playing the same system as the end of the first half. Woods and | :32:48. | :32:57. | |
Irving trying to support Alex Schalk through the middle. Celtic | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
conserving energy, dropping back. Squeezing it through... Could not | :33:00. | :33:13. | |
find Alex Schalk. What a ball. Horrible ball for the defender to | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
deal with, and he does so well, superb ball through, great run, | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
onside, one touch, get it in early... Brilliant defending, | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
absolutely brilliant. Would will take the corner, first of the second | :33:32. | :33:40. | |
half. -- Woods. Headed back across, and into the net it goes! Would you | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
believe it, Paul Quinn, on his debut, who scored the winner against | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
Celtic for Aberdeen early in the season has given Ross County the | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
lead early in the second half in the League Cup semifinal! What a story! | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
Would you believe it, we have been talking about set pieces. The two | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
centre-backs, brilliant by Davis, and Paul Quinn, burying it into the | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
back of the net, great flick back, and a lovely finish from Paul Quinn. | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
That is one from the training ground. Here at Hampden, the big | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
occasion, it has worked a treat for Jim McIntyre's side. He was brought | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
back for his defensive qualities, but what a moment it is for the | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
returning hero. A complete turnaround for Ross County. It seems | :34:37. | :34:44. | |
a world ago that Gary Mackay-Steven put a vibrant Celtic in front at the | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
start of the game. And now, Ronnie Deila faces a mammoth 41 minutes of | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
his Celtic career here at Camden, he has had some big matches in the | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
past, in his Celtic career, but defeat today would be unthinkable in | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
the eyes of many of the Celtic supporters with regards their | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
manager. -- Hampden He needs his team back into the game, he needs to | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
think about players like Scott Brown and James Forrest, game changers. | :35:21. | :35:35. | |
It is the Ross County supporters enjoying their afternoon. Really | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
dodgy opening period. If they weren't favourites after the | :35:41. | :35:52. | |
red card, surely Ross County are favourites now the first time since | :35:53. | :36:05. | |
the draw was made. Alex Schalk now... | :36:06. | :36:22. | |
County supporters who made the trip down the a nine motorway today have | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
been rewarded at the moment, horrible conditions. That Italy over | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
the last 24 hours. -- A9. The band of fans who have made the trip have | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
seen their team come from 1-0 down, to lead, Paul Quinn, hero, near as | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
return. -- horrible conditions particularly over the last 24 hours. | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
Ironically, Paul Quinn went to Aberdeen in search of trophies, | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
Aberdeen Art out about competitions, his first game back at Ross County | :37:00. | :37:08. | |
is a semifinal. -- Aberdeen are out of both competitions. He was on the | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
bench in Aberdeen's one and only League Cup tie at Easter Road, he | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
did not play. Making his Celtic debut, Erik | :37:16. | :37:29. | |
Sviatchenko, because he had to, more than anything else. | :37:30. | :37:48. | |
If it does go against Celtic today, the pressure will mount on Ronnie | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
Dilo, but circumstances have dictated this is the way it has | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
gone, because they started on fire. They looked like they were going to | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
run away with it. Running to try to get back, clips a player, finds | :38:04. | :38:11. | |
himself giving away a penalty. Armstrong to his left. Just delayed. | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
To the ire of the Celtic fans. Really good positive play by Stuart | :38:19. | :38:49. | |
Armstrong down the left flank. That is what they need, they need players | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
to take responsible at it, move players on, move the defence, see if | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
they can create space for the striker. Who will take this himself. | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
Hibernian so close to -- McShane on the six yard line got | :39:07. | :39:18. | |
that one away. Armstrong again. Second bite for him. | :39:19. | :39:27. | |
Never looked very convincing, coming across the park, slightly away from | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
goal, never gets hold of it at all. Jim McIntyre took a while to get | :39:32. | :39:49. | |
going at Ross County, when he replaced Derek Adams. Last year. | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
Just two of his last 21 in charge. Winning 11 of the last 13, that took | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
them from 12 to ninth Ross County had their feet in the | :39:59. | :40:13. | |
alligators mouth last season. Thematic recovery. That is a foul by | :40:14. | :40:22. | |
Erik Sviatchenko. This is a chance for McShane to whip the ball into | :40:23. | :40:23. | |
the mixer. Paul Quinn waiting again. Davis was up, but the legally. -- | :40:24. | :40:43. | |
but illegally. The referee figuring that he was climbing over the top of | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
the Celtic player to get there, arms over the top. | :40:48. | :41:28. | |
Scott Fox would not have been too keen to see that come back to him | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
there. Talking about goalkeepers not | :41:33. | :41:59. | |
wanting the past, conditions making that difficult for him. More about | :42:00. | :42:10. | |
him in just a moment, here come Ross County. Celtic free kick. We will | :42:11. | :42:23. | |
get back to Craig Gordon he was booked in the wake of the second | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
Ross County goal scored by Paul Quinn, felt he was being found, does | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
he have a case? Certainly looks like it, no chance the referee will spot | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
that. He has his arms around him, he cannot come off his line, so many | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
bodies, so much going on, there is not much chance the referee can pick | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
that out. So of you see decisions like that go in favour of the | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
goalkeeper. It inevitably petulant, Mikael Lustig has talked his way | :42:57. | :43:04. | |
into the book as well. Down to ten men, 2-1 down, you still have a | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
chance, but if you go down to nine men, then the opportunity is gone, | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
you have got to keep your cool in this situation. | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
Celtic players certainly driven on by a sense of injustice. At the | :43:18. | :43:31. | |
moment that they saw the referee flash the red card in the direction | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
of Efe Ambrose. Who will be yellow carded next? | :43:38. | :43:53. | |
Andrew Davies felt he was up early, you can see the arm over the | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
shoulder, that is what he has been pinged for, his reaction almost got | :44:00. | :44:00. | |
him yellow carded. Celtic have more than enough quality | :44:01. | :44:33. | |
out there to win a football match. Scrappy at the moment. Inserting a | :44:34. | :45:09. | |
little bit of cool into the situation. | :45:10. | :45:26. | |
Gary Woods the sub goalkeeper for Ross County. They have so many | :45:27. | :45:35. | |
options on the bench, including Raffaele De Vita. | :45:36. | :45:43. | |
Here is Tierney. Tracking was Ian McShane who concedes a needless | :45:44. | :45:54. | |
corner. How often do you see these punished? These are the situations | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
when you have to think safety first, 2-1 ahead, you don't want to be | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
clever, he could have cleared his lines but he has put his team-mates | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
under pressure. We are beyond the hour mark, Celtic have been posed | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
one of the biggest questions of their season. Do they have an | :46:16. | :46:24. | |
answer? They do have another corner. They are winning a lot in the air, | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
Celtic. Set pieces are key because you can load up the box and put in | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
the centre-backs and if you win the first header it can fall to anyone. | :46:35. | :46:41. | |
'S Stefan Johansen will take from the right. It was not the worst ball | :46:42. | :46:51. | |
in. Now they are away on the counter. Too much on it for Schalk. | :46:52. | :47:01. | |
Why does he try to play the killer ball? Play it right, you are on the | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
break, it is great ambition but the final pass... | :47:07. | :47:28. | |
Lifted up by Foster. Woods trying to help it on its way. | :47:29. | :47:54. | |
A real midfield battle going on as Irvine twist it into the path of | :47:55. | :48:02. | |
words who has found Schalk, big chance! It looks like deja vu here | :48:03. | :48:15. | |
at Hamden! Alex Schalk puts Ross County into a 3-1 lead against the | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
holders! Great finish from Alex Schalk but I tell you what, Martin | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
Woods was super cool with the penalty and what a ball this is, | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
perfect weight and Schalk just has to pick his spot. Wonderful finish | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
but what a ball, he put it perfectly for his team-mate. He still had a | :48:37. | :48:44. | |
lot to do, the Dutchman, but it was Woods to Schalk, to the net, and it | :48:45. | :48:54. | |
is Ross County 3-1 Celtic. Celtic Boss travel macro -- treble hopes | :48:55. | :49:03. | |
potentially in smithereens again, being put to the sword by the | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
highlanders of Ross County. Does the Celtic manager go for it? Put on a | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
couple of substitutions to see if that makes a difference? Ross County | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
will be looking to hit them on the break if they push forward. That | :49:19. | :49:25. | |
might just be the biggest goal of the game because that 2-goal | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
cushion, as well as the new marital advantage on the pitch, that is | :49:31. | :49:33. | |
cushion, as well as the new marital massive as we head towards the final | :49:34. | :49:41. | |
quarter -- numerical advantage. Hibs are waiting for the victors. This is | :49:42. | :49:52. | |
a mountainous task for Celtic. There credentials as Scottish champions | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
and holders of the League Cup are being tested to the max here also it | :49:56. | :49:57. | |
is a long way back. Some Celtic fans in the wake of that | :49:58. | :50:15. | |
are heading for the exit door. No doubt about the finish. Before the | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
game, we were talking about how much of a blow it was for county not to | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
be able to call on Craig Curran and Liam bench only being on the bench | :50:26. | :50:32. | |
but Alex Schalk, arguably more of a wide player that are sent forward, | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
has not mattered, not yet. -- than a centre forward. | :50:39. | :50:48. | |
What do Celtic have left here? This is Griffiths, if anybody can get | :50:49. | :50:59. | |
them back into it it is he. Armstrong. They need the next goal. | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
They have the next corner. The problem was that Griffiths is going | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
out wide to get involved and there is not a soul in the box for Celtic. | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
He looked up and there was not one green and white jersey. When there | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
is an emergency, affordable team would love to be able to call upon | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
their captain and that is exactly what Celtic are about to do. Celtic | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
has not played in over two months. The skipper of his club and his | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
country is going to be on in a moment but not before this corner. | :51:40. | :51:51. | |
Not quite. I tell you what, it is a tall order for Scott Brown. It is | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
Nir Bitton who he is going to replace. | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
Scott Brown normally a sitting midfielder, controlling the game, I | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
wonder if that is the position he will play. When he broke into the | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
team at Easter Road as a youngster, he was electric, bursting forward | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
and looking to score goals and Celtic need something like that just | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
now. Certainly the man for the big occasion. Perhaps a little earlier | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
than Ronny Deila and the player himself might have thought. He had a | :52:34. | :52:43. | |
knee ligament injury which savaged part of his season. Heavy, slippery | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
Hampden Park pitch, he has got the armband back from Mikael Lustig. | :52:53. | :53:01. | |
Here is Johannson, lovely touch, he was cynically tripped by Ian McShane | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
who is the latest to go into Craig Thomson's little black book. -- | :53:08. | :53:16. | |
Stefan Johansen. He realised he was always going to be booked for that, | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
he just brings him down, plain and simple. The second yellow card for | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
County, Marcus Fraser was booked earlier. Gordon and Lustig have both | :53:26. | :53:34. | |
been hooked. Celtic's need is urgent, we are into the final | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
quarter. They would rip your arm off for extra time right now. That is | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
the keeper's. There has been some serious | :53:49. | :54:12. | |
inconsistency in Ross County's recent form, loss, win, loss, win, | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
win, loss, draw, win, win. They are winning the odd game, and that is | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
what is keeping them up. They have played a couple games more than that | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
closest challenger. It is a good way to go about your business, just one | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
point for a draw so they are doing it the right way. Into their fourth | :54:38. | :54:48. | |
season as a top-flight side. Armstrong, took a deflection. Fox | :54:49. | :54:58. | |
holds on. Stuart Armstrong, side foot from there, he has to put his | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
laces through it. More chance of hitting the target but Celtic need | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
one to fly into the top corner at this stage. Celtic have won six of | :55:08. | :55:16. | |
their last seven League Cup semifinals, defeat to St Mirren | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
three years ago the only loss. That is towards Mackay-Steven from | :55:21. | :55:34. | |
Griffiths. Johansen. The Celtic fans and indeed the players felt he was | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
impeded in the box but nothing doing. I think that is more in hope | :55:40. | :55:46. | |
than anticipation, they are looking for anything to get back into the | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
game. Shoulder to shoulder. A big shout but the referee having none of | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
it. Ross County are going to bring on Brian Graham. He is on for Alex | :56:00. | :56:08. | |
Schalk, who scored their third. What an impression he has made today with | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
just his second goal of the season. He scored against Dunfermline in the | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
Scottish Cup at East End Park. This will mean so much more can certainly | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
as things stand as it is the goal that has given Ross County and | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
insurance policy against the holders. The manager stuck him up | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
there, he had a good effort saved by Craig Gordon in the first half, he | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
is involved in the big incident, going down for the penalty, and he | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
has also scored the third gold which has put Ross County in the box seat. | :56:46. | :56:53. | |
-- third goal. It is a bit huff and puff for Celtic at the moment as | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
they try to work out a way back into this. 19 minutes left of the 90. | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
Mackay-Steven. Corner. That is better from Celtic, the passing was | :57:05. | :58:07. | |
sharper and the running better and they get a corner. The centre-backs | :58:08. | :58:11. | |
come forward yet again to see if they can get their head on this. | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
Sviatchenko one of those waiting for this delivery. | :58:18. | :58:24. | |
It is over. Again, an opportunity for Mikael Lustig. I think he has to | :58:25. | :58:36. | |
flick this on, he is trying to generate power and go for goal. He | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
is ahead of the front post and it is very difficult to score from their, | :58:42. | :58:51. | |
he just has too flicked it on. This would not be the kind of shock it | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
was six years ago simply because Ross County were a First Division | :58:57. | :58:59. | |
side in those days against a Celtic team, albeit struggling at the time. | :59:00. | :59:07. | |
The end of the failed Tony Mowbray era. But it was still -- is still a | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
result that will send shock waves. You talked to so many people in the | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
game, and they hate that decision where the referee had to send a man | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
off. The penalty is a big enough problem for the team, and to lose a | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
man makes it impossible. There was no flag there. County snuff it out. | :59:30. | :59:39. | |
It just has not fallen for Griffiths. When he teed up | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
Mackay-Steven for the opener, you thought Celtic could win this by | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
however many they wanted. He is still the man Celtic need, working | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
away, in the wide areas and through the middle but that first touch let | :59:54. | :00:00. | |
him down. Leigh Griffiths has scored 47 goals in his last season and a | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
half, it is phenomenal. His record stand up with any of those who have | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
gone before him in the green and white hoops. It has not been his | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
day. There are still 15 minutes and despite the fact that it is 3-1, it | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
will still be a slow 15 minutes for their supporters, unless they can | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
add another and then it would surely be game over. Johansen. Could be a | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
break here. Griffiths. Celtic need something to happen. Griffiths. | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
There were plenty back in the end for Ross County. Ian McShane ran | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
back to cut that out. About eight of their players got back to make sure | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
there was no space in the box. It has been a feature of how they have | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
gone about their business, they have looked sharp. They started poorly | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
but when they got themselves level, they have been a good match for | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Celtic. Forrest and Ciftci still on the bench for Celtic, Ciftci was a | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
winner for Dundee United in this competition last year. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Less than 15 to play. Celtic corner... They are keeping the | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
pressure on the Staggies. Celtic, one man down, hamstrung | :01:33. | :01:50. | |
since the 13th minute of the game. Efe Ambrose was red carded. Corner | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
from Johannson. It is a penalty! Handball! And used inside the box, | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Craig Thomson has pointed straight to the spot, this is a lifeline. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Looking at Ross County players, one or two players asking the question, | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
comes in here, he has gone to head it, headed it onto his own hand... | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
It is the substitute... He has managed to shut his eyes, certainly | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the referee sees that, I don't know if the referee sees it coming from | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
his head but they has given a penalty. Celtic were about to bring | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
an James Forrest, who I just mentioned. Leigh Griffiths has the | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
chance to launch a stunning fightback. | :02:42. | :02:54. | |
Saved by the Ross County goalkeeper! The lifeline has been spurned, | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
Celtic let down in the semifinal. That sums up the afternoon for | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Celtic. You would have put your mortgage on Leigh Griffiths whacking | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
that into the back of the net. The goalkeeper has made a good save. He | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
has gone for power. Shades of the Scottish Cup semifinal for | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Hibernian, where he eventually got one past the goalkeeper before | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
scoring that wonderful winner, denied from the spot against yellow | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
not his best penalty, nowhere near the corner. Good height for the | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
goalkeeper to save. Celtic have time... Would have been a wonderful | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
situation to put themselves in. Fox is there. Would have just given them | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the impetus, would have got the supporters onside. Ross County | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
survive thanks to goalkeeper Scott Fox. All you can do is make yourself | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
big and hope for the best. If that goes into the back of the net, | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
really nervous for Ross County. Scott Fox left in limbo for six | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
months when he left Celtic initially because they were demanding a | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
training feed for him. Nobody touched him until his contract ran | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
down. Scott Fox will be feeling good about that penalty save. Retribution | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
for him. The two substitute combining. Claims | :04:30. | :04:53. | |
of handball against Fraser, bounced back off him, potentially. The Ross | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
County sub digit upfront, Graham, he will be breathing a massive sigh of | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
relief, because he conceded the penalty. The referee reaching for | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
the yellow card again. Not his first foul, you see the referee gesturing | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
to all points of the park. The totting up process means that he has | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
been booked for persistent fouling. Griffiths standing over this | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
commonly made fancy a pop for goal. -- Griffiths standing over this, he | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
may fancy a pop for goal. If he does, it may go in, conditions dicey | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
for the goalkeeper. Getting there... Slightly awkward for the goalkeeper, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
but does the job. Cleans up at the second time of asking. Ten to play. | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
Another historic victory. Ross County against Celtic at Hampden. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Lovely ball in! Irvin! Had the chance to seal it. Could not take | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
it. -- Irvine. How important will that proved to be? -- prove. Foster | :06:20. | :06:31. | |
has stuck to his guns. Still the Celtic supporters believe | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
they can get back into this. Ross County so close to going 4-1 | :06:39. | :07:04. | |
up. Another lovely move, set up on the far post, straight at the | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
keeper, Michael Gardyne sets it up nicely. Irvin shoots straight at the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
keeper. -- Irvine. Wonder what is going through the | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
mind of Ronny Deila, right now, as it's turns, -- as he stands on the | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
edge of his technical area. He was confident his side could deliver on | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
all fronts this season. Another campaign of European | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
disappointments... Change coming for Ross County, this | :07:34. | :07:57. | |
will be music to the ears of the supporters, Liam Boyce is going to | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
come on, after a hand injury, still having to wear bandages on his hand | :08:03. | :08:16. | |
because of the break. Could have been a Celtic player, Liam Boyce. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Spotted while at Cliftonville, in Belfast. Playing against Celtic for | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Cliftonville, in a Champions League qualifier. | :08:27. | :08:40. | |
Jim McIntyre, just over seven minutes away from replicating what | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Derek Adams's team did. Tortuous debut for the Dane, Erik | :08:44. | :09:09. | |
Sviatchenko. A goal now, for Celtic, and you never know...! | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Again shouting for handball. Not even sure if the referee has any | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
chance of seeing that stop the player sliding across. Johannson | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
tries to get the ball across goal. It is actually off the need and then | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
of the arm. Got a shout for the penalty, not sure if you are going | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
to get it. I have seen them even. Here comes the corner... | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Very good game pulling the strings, Gary Woods, on loan at Ross County | :09:44. | :09:56. | |
last season. -- Martin Woods. He had his contract cancelled. Returning to | :09:57. | :10:13. | |
county. Header away by Davies. Boyce. | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Bounced straight back up, in any case. | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
We just did not see this coming after the first minute of this game. | :10:30. | :10:41. | |
Mikhail listed now... -- Colly stick -- Mikhail Lustig. Running out of | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
time, just over five minutes to play. | :10:53. | :11:13. | |
Scooping it out to Mikael Lustig. There is a man in navy blue winning | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
every ball inside the box right now, look at this run... Burning away | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
from Brown, trying to eat up the clock on Jonathan Franks... He has | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
won his team a throw as well. That is exactly what you want from your | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
wide player, get the ball, head to the touchline, get yourself a throw | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
in as far away from your goal as possible. | :11:47. | :12:15. | |
Dream debut for Quinn, underneath that. Scoring county's second, and | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
resolute in defence. Good run ahead of him. Spotted quickly enough. | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
Write down into the corner. Another fine season that Liam Boyce is | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
having. -- what a fine season. Jackson Irvine losing sight as it | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
goes out for the goalkick. Ticks down the clock. We saw John McGinn | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
picking up a Man of the Match award in the first semifinal yesterday | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
against St Johnstone, midfield masterclass from the man who proved | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
to be the matchwinner. We are going to get to today's Man of the Match | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
in just a moment. There comes Celtic, James Forrest, and now Gary | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Mackay-Steven. Griffiths was hunting. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Brilliant goalkeeping by Scott Fox. That took at least one deflection! | :13:19. | :13:41. | |
How is that for improvisation. Keep That took at least one deflection! | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
it out of the back of the net, nicks off the heel, magnificent save, | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
great goalkeeping, because he makes it so awkward, how he gets it over | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
the bar, I have no idea. In it comes again. The goalkeeper does not... | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
Does just enough there... He saved a Griffiths penalty earlier, I think | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
he is thinking that he was failed, it may have been his own man who | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
took him down. Smaller goalkeepers have a problem when they come into | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
traffic, it does not look like they are being fouled. Court Davies when | :14:24. | :14:35. | |
he went up for the original ball, scrambled behind, and it comes off | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Graham and out all the corner, he has gone down injured, need is not | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
want treatment, need is not want to go off. About to go into the final | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
minute. Celtic wait and wait to take go off. About to go into the final | :14:46. | :15:00. | |
the corner. Does not have long to score twice. That misses everyone. | :15:01. | :15:12. | |
It has been one of those afternoons for Celtic, nothing has fallen for | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
them, really up against it, as soon as Efe Ambrose was sent off, I | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
mentioned John McGinn's Man of the Match performance, Craig Paterson | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
needs to tell us who his Man of the Match is in the League Cup | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
semifinal. Martin Woods has impressed me all afternoon, great | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
composure, in the middle of the park, high-pressure penalty, to get | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
his team back into the game, and what a through ball for the third | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
goal which sealed the victory. Martin Woods is my Man of the Match. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Special mention to Scott Fox, penalty save. Celtic will have to | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
pick themselves up double quick. They go to Aberdeen in midweek. Four | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
minutes of injury time added on at the end. This is looking all the way | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
like a Hibernian Ross County League Cup final. Andrew Davis off, getting | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
attention, you can clearly see the blood draining away from him. He | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
will be feeling no pain in a few minutes, you would think! | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
Decided to retain possession, Irvine was rather fortunate to retain it | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
himself. Could we be in the position in a | :16:30. | :16:46. | |
month and a half where both Scotland's national trophies will be | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
sitting in the Highlands, for a couple of months at least? Caley | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Thistle the Scottish Cup holders, Ross County look to be one game away | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
from winning the League Cup. Both of those clubs have only been in the | :17:05. | :17:18. | |
senior Scottish ranks for 22 years. Certainly in the major football | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
leagues in this country. Johansen chasing, this is Lustig. | :17:21. | :17:38. | |
Thomson keeping his BDI on this. Irvine just does enough. -- BD I. | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
That is frustration, that is all that is, Craig Thomson will be under | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
pressure to red card and a Celtic player. It is a poor challenge and | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
born of frustration. When it broke out wide, seven Johansen has -- | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
Stefan Johansen has thrown himself into the challenge and the referee | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
has a big decision to make. The game is over as a contest but will this | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
be red or yellow? Celtic's domestic season has been underpinned by the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
mention of the treble at every single opportunity. Ronny Deila has | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
been asked about it on an almost weekly basis. He was confident his | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
team could do it this season. It was a double last season and for many | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
people, anything less than the league, the League Cup and the | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Scottish Cup this season was not going to be good enough will stop it | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
is certainly a naughty challenge. The referee decides yellow will | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
suffice. Faster and Griffiths get involved and they picked up yellow | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
cards as well -- Foster. Five yellow cards for Celtic today as the red | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
card to Efe Ambrose which was a massive turning point in the game | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
because therefore that Celtic were lightning. 1-0 up inside 28 seconds. | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
Mackay-Steven is stroked into an empty net and Celtic pounded at the | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Ross County defence for the next ten minutes, they could have been 3-0 up | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
but in the blink of an item of Ambrose brings down Schalk, a red | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
card, a penalty, 1-1 and it is Ross County will be going into the final | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
here on the 13th of March. A stunning turnaround. Woods, the Man | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
of the Match, he finds Brian Graham. It's all over! Ross County are into | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
the League Cup final! It is disaster for Ronny Deila! What will the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
repercussions be for the big Norwegian? There will be no treble | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
for Celtic, but joy for the Staggies, this is Thaiday! Look at | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
the facial expressions of those wearing a Ross County badge, and so | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
proudly they do so -- this is their day. Mackay-Steven put Celtic in | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
front inside 30 seconds, County levelled through the woods spot kick | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
after Ambrose was sent off. Second-half goals from Quinn and | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Schalk have sent the Staggies through to their second major final | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
and their first in the League Cup. It finishes here, Ross County 3-1 | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Celtic. STUDIO: Year ago Ross County were | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
staring relegation in the face but they are fourth in the top division | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
now and through to the second major cup final. On both occasions they | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
have beaten Celtic in the semifinal. Celtic's semifinal misery continues | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
and their treble dream is over. We can hear from the Ross County | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
manager, Jim McIntyre. Congratulations your thoughts | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
initially? I thought the players were magnificent, to lose their goal | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
the way we did, the exact opposite of the game plan. We had to show | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
courage and character to come back from that. The goal knocked the | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
stuffing out of us and Celtic were all over us and we had to hang in | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
there. We get the penalty, a good through ball and obviously Martin | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
Woods sticks it away and from then on, at times we could have | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
controlled it better but I'm thrilled with the effort they gave | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
us. Celtic are a top side. Absolutely thrilled. Did you fear | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
the worst after the first goal? Of course. We set up to be tight and | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
have a threat on the counterattack and we have gifted a goal. You have | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
to credit Celtic, Leigh Griffiths is brilliant at playing on the shoulder | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
and that was the worst possible start but the character this team | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
keeps showing, when they go behind, we might not always win but we | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
always come back into it and make chances. I'm absolutely chuffed for | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
them will stop you mentioned character. Not many gave you hope | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
before the game, does that make it all the sweeter? That's normal. They | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
are favourites and rightly so. There was a belief in the dressing room. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
We created chances against them in both games this season and even | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
though we lost them, we knew that if we could create again it was a | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
matter of taking them and I can't ask for any more than what they | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
gave. I'm delighted for the chairman because he has put so much into this | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
and they have been tough times in the last couple of years so for him | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
to get to a final, delighted. Well done. That is one League Cup final | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
and it, let's hear from the other, Alan Stubbs. What about that from | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
Ross County? Fantastic for them, they had to enjoy a difficult start | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
and they have come through it and they have managed to see themselves | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
through to a final against ourselves. We are looking forward to | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
it. It is the stuff of dreams for Ross County. Definitely. Jim touched | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
on it, the chairman and everything he has put into the club. You look | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
at the comparisons between 2010 when they beat Celtic and this team, and | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
the thing that springs to mind for me is the character and they needed | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
that in abundance with how they started. Let's hear from the Man of | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the Match, Martin Woods. Congratulations, how does it feel? | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Absolutely brilliant, delighted for the boys and the staff, we have | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
worked hard and it was a big result. Although they've went down to ten, | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
it is still a fantastic result to beat Celtic. Not many would have | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
given new hope after the first 30 seconds? Some of the journalists | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
were asking Alan Stubbs questions and it gave us some motivation, what | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
it would be like to face Celtic in the final. It made us go at it. I'm | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
just delighted. Your heart pumping as you stepped up to take the | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
penalty? Yes, it was a big delay! He is a big frame in the goal so I was | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
delighted. Can you go all the way? Of course, if you beat Celtic it | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
gives you great confidence. We have them next week in the league and we | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
want to finish top six. We are looking for a fourth position, to | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
finish as high as we can. We have a good squad and of course we can with | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
it. Well done, you have some bubbles as well, you are the Man of the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Match. Thank you. The secret to their success, Alan Stubbs! I will | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
take the credit! When I spoke yesterday, it was about we will see | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
who we get. Obviously Celtic were favourites. That has not | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
materialised and Ross County deserve to come through it. I know Martin, I | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
was at Sunderland with him so I will have a few words! Hopefully we will | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
hear from Ronny Deila before we go. We will have action from the English | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
FA Cup, MK Dons against Chelsea which is 3-1 to Chelsea at the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
moment. We hope to hear from Ronny Deila. What do you think he will | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
tell us? He will be hugely disappointed and it will be down to | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
one massive talking point at the start. You have to make that sort of | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
decision, who is going to play as your centre-backs. Celtic fans, all | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
of the fans, have noticed the mistakes he has made and he has been | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
a bit rash with the challenge. And it changes in that moment, 11th | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
against 11, Celtic are massive favourites. They had started great | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
and looked good. It might have sounded odd at the start, it is | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
sometimes harder for Celtic to win the cups because even slip up in the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
league and you can't in a cup and that slip-up was one tackle. It was | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
looking ominous for Ross County and strong for Celtic inside 27 seconds. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
You heard Jim McIntyre saying that is what Leigh Griffiths is all | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
about, playing on the shoulder. It was great awareness and it showed | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
his maturity to cross it for Mackay-Steven. This is it, the | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
moment we are talking about. Not a lot of contact but enough and he | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
definitely can't keep on running. I might be clutching at straws for | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
ducted fans to say Craig Gordon might have got to -- Celtic fans. | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
And most referees will send the player off for that. No doubt he | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
will do that, big moment in the game have an impact and they went for | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
Ross County. Ultimately, it is the decision of the manager who plays | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
and far too often when Efe Ambrose is on, he makes mistakes and they | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
are costly. That is something that ultimately cost Celtic the game. Was | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
the match still not there for them even with ten against 11? You still | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
fancied it at 1-1, even though they were a man down because of their | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
quality. Ross County started to come into it and yet more belief and get | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
further up the pitch and ask questions of Celtic more. There were | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
a few moments in the second half, we can talk about them, pivotal | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
moments. And they have probably contributed towards the final | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
outcome. What a return to Ross County for Paul Quinn. Not a bad | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
start to your Ross County career. Fantastic. Obviously we came with a | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
game plan, circumstances change in the game but we are delighted to get | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
to the final, it is huge for the club and ourselves. Is there a | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
growing feeling you can go there, are you the favourites? I don't | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
know, Hibs are probably playing a lead below where they should be, | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
they have fantastic players and staff but we have to go with the | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
attitude that we had today, we came here to win even though we were the | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
underdogs. We came to progress and it is about looking forward to the | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
final and enjoying ourselves just now and focusing on another positive | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
result. It looked like a tough shift, the manager talked about | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
character and it was there. It was called into after the first minute. | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
We were sloppy to start with and we don't in and got a break which | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
changed the game and we took advantage -- we dug in. We worked | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
ever so hard, the goalkeeper made saves, all-round delighted and the | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
character was evident. Well done. A great linkup between Davis and Quinn | :30:07. | :30:13. | |
for the goal even though they struggled to link up defensively | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
earlier -- Davies. Was there a foul on Craig Gordon? We have a look at | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
him in the middle and he is held. He doesn't have a chance. This happens | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
all the time in football and at the top level but he is getting shoved | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
off the ball and can't react. You can argue, it is a free header, but | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
Gordon is seriously held back. You are right, it is a foul, it is | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
difficult for the referee to see with the bodies around them but as | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
much as Gordon is being held, Celtic, defensively, allowed Davies | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
to spin around the back and it was Bitton and Lustig, they were on the | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
six yard box marking Quinn and Davies and Davies get a free header | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
and Quinn is first to react. Then there is the argument of men on the | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
posts. It is tough when you are a man short anyway. On top of that, | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
the keeper is held, it is tough. Celtic have to get on with it | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
because you can't guarantee the referee will be looking at that. | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
A lot of incidents going on, in Ronnieis, I would expect the | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
defenders to be reacting better when the ball goes their head will | :31:31. | :31:38. | |
they stop, the ball drops to Quinn, there is a lot of incidents. They | :31:39. | :31:47. | |
should deal with the cross better, Mikael Lustig and Nir Bitton. Lovely | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
pace on the pass from Martin Woods, great finish here from the Dutchman, | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Alex Schalk. You see as the ball is played in, it is about pass | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
appreciation, plays it right into the path of Alex Schalk, great | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
finish, looking at the next angle, I wonder why Mikael Lustig narrows so | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
much rather than deepening of many goes far too far in the field rather | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
than trying to get background the other side, but you have got to give | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
credit to Ross County, great ball, slide rule pass, fantastic finish. | :32:21. | :32:28. | |
Celtic had a lot of the play before that, you have got to remember, | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
there were breaks and they looked dangerous on the break, before that, | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
slide rule pass which was not a slide rule, it was too long, this | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
time, it was perfect, and the take was perfect. Understandably | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
completely delighted with that but still it was not all over, Celtic | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
had chances. Even though it was 3-1, you could not write them off. We | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
will delay joining the in dish FA Cup action, because we would like to | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
wait to hear from Ronny Deila, Celtic manager, the door of the | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
dressing room shut at the moment, unsurprisingly, when he emerges, we | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
will get a word with him, the treble dream for Celtic is over. Of course, | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
they had the chance, late on, to bring the game back to life, with a | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
penalty. Given against Graham's handball. You could argue whether it | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
was deliberate. I think when you look at the player reaction, Graham | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
is not arguing against it being given, but when you see Leigh | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
Griffiths stepping up to take it, everyone was expecting this to go | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
into the back of the net, tries to blast it down the middle, Scott Fox | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
manages to get it away. When that happens, you realise that it is not | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
going to be your day. The big moments have gone in the favour of | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
Ross County, they have capitalised. The remarkable an orthodox saved | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
late on by Scott Fox, when you are making those, you are not losing the | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
game. More and more you could see the belief as it went on, that it | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
was going to be their day, you could see their heads go down, with the | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
Celtic players knowing that as time went on it was not going to be their | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
day. Moments have gone against them today. But, you have got to give a | :34:11. | :34:18. | |
lot of credit to Ross County because from a really difficult start the | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
game they have stuck in there, they been adopted when they had to. -- | :34:22. | :34:29. | |
they have been dogged. A couple of really good goals, they deserve to | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
be in the final. A lot of headlines tomorrow will centre on Celtic's | :34:33. | :34:41. | |
treble dream in tatters, but Dingwall, population 5000, this is a | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
fairy tale. We almost take it for granted because they have grown so | :34:48. | :34:50. | |
well so quickly but it is an astounding thing that they have | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
managed to do this, that group of players look fantastic. They had one | :34:55. | :35:00. | |
or two injuries as well. A really good job that has been done. They | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
have rebuilt a strong looking group, a strong looking squad. It is a | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
fairy tale, of course it is, every time you beat 18 the size of Celtic, | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
it is, a should be applauded. There will be a lot of column inches about | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
Ronnie Deila, there will be a few about Efe Ambrose as well, but that | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
is the real story. -- when you beat -- every time you beat a team the | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
size of Celtic. We will try to get the smile wiped off the face of Alan | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
Stubbs, if we can, could be difficult, all started with a | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
controversial penalty award leading to Jason Cummings firing Hibernian | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
in front, much has been said about it. Quite clearly for me, it is not | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
a penalty, but we have spoke about it at length, you can see commonly | :35:58. | :36:05. | |
goes right across. -- you can see, he goes right across, as he makes | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
the tackle. You can understand why he has given it. Pictures show there | :36:10. | :36:20. | |
was not a great deal of contact. Are you pleased he is still your player? | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
We were never in any doubt, as a football club, we had no desire to | :36:26. | :36:32. | |
lose our best players, Jason falls into that. I was comfortable at the | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
start of the month and I am comfortable at the end of the month. | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
What about in the middle of the month? LAUGHTER | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
Probably even more comfortable in the middle of the month(!) LAUGHTER | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
He's getting better and better, we feel that... We are in negotiations, | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
we would love him to sign a new deal. He is part of what we want to | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
build. If we can get that done, fantastic. We feel as if being at | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Hibernian right now is the best place for him. First goal of three, | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
St Johnstone equalising here, at that point, came on against. What | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
takes some of the sting out of it... The way that they reacted to it, you | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
understand, his team were probably second-best, good fight, good | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
battle, a lot of pressure and expectation on them. His team have | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
played better. Tough round recently. It tends to happen, but when they | :37:35. | :37:42. | |
are flying, they are fantastic to watch. They all worked really hard, | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
but in comparison to what Hibernian had... You were a top-class | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
Hibernian midfielder in your time, so you have told me, anyway, not | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
sure I believe it(!) but John McGinn is also fantastic. He is coming onto | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
his game, when he joined Hibernian, I thought that it was a weak player, | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
but he has impressed me the times I have seen in this season, taking it | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
to a different level. This goes to prove it. Is becoming an all-round | :38:15. | :38:26. | |
midfielder, driving forward, tackling, pitching in with important | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
goals, as a manager armour that is something that you want to look for, | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
he has a promising career in front of him. -- as a manager, that is | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
something you want. You will have your feet up watching this, looking | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
forward to the final. We are delighted that we can involve them | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
in the final now... Are you still cup tied by Celtic? LAUGHTER | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
Bringing a lot of quality to the team... Henderson, he had some | :38:57. | :39:05. | |
really good moments in the game and played a good part and it would have | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
been a shame for him not to be involved in the final, once we get | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
Anthony Stokes up and running, he will play a huge contribution | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
towards the end of the season. This is the way that it is, live and | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
exclusive on the BBC, March 13, Scottish League Cup final. | :39:21. | :39:27. | |
How does that change the whole complexion of the occasion, | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
delighted to be there, in a sense, does not matter who you play, | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
Hibernian are there already, but it is not Celtic, it is not scanty. | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
What is your immediate reaction? It is different, if we were playing | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
Celtic, then we would have been huge underdogs, to face the game, no | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
point lying about it. It would have been a really difficult game to come | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
through. And to overcome. But now, we enter the game, both sides will | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
probably be fancying their chances to win the game. We know that it is | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
going to be difficult. You only have to look today at how many problems | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
they will be able to cause us. We will be able to cause Ross County | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
and Jim and Billy problems ourselves. It is going to be a good | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
game, it will be intriguing, it will be exciting... It will be two teams | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
trying to win a game of football and have a realistic chance as well. Is | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
what we were talking about, it is two teams that will have a genuine | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
belief that they can go out there and win it, not a case of trying to | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
hit one on the counterattack... It is a completely different dynamic, | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
two teams squaring up, going toe to toe, it should make for an | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
interesting match. 4-1 Chelsea, in the FA Cup, beating MK Dons. | :40:48. | :40:55. | |
Hat-trick from Moscow. Who are the favourites for the Scottish FA Cup | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
final? The bookies will think long and hard. In the end, if you are the | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
lower league team, you should not be favourites, but actually I think | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
there is nothing between the two teams, showing no offence | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
whatsoever, talking about what will happen, if there is half as much | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
incident as we had this afternoon, we will all be very entertained. | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
That is something you have always got to remember at the end of these | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
games. People upset and happy but a lot of entertainment and decent | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
football. What exciting season for you and the Hibernian fans. Chasing | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
promotion at Greenock, and League Cup final and you have an Edinburgh | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
derby coming up in the Scottish Cup. This could be incredible. It could | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
be, but all that we have done is give ourselves an opportunity right | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
now... We are in the final, in one competition, still in the mix for | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
the league. And we have a really exciting game against our local | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
rivals next week, however you look at it, fantastic tie. And we are all | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
looking forward, everyone is looking forward to it. Two really good | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
teams. Full house, Tynecastle again, great atmosphere. And you know, this | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
is what we want, we want to be involved in big games, somebody | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
asked me today about pressure. It is not pressure, it is excitement. It | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
could be a fantastic end to the season for us, we are certainly | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
hoping it is going to be. Our main objective is to get promotion. The | :42:32. | :42:40. | |
cup is a complete bonus for us. Amey fans will you take back for the | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
League Cup final? Certainly more than 20,000. -- how many fans. The | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
support we have had not just from the club from the fans since I have | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
come in has been nothing short of remarkable. There will be a huge | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
following. I think that we will bring 20 5000. That speaks volumes, | :43:00. | :43:06. | |
for the club, we want to get the club first and foremost back into | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
the top division. Fundamental, priority number one. We want to have | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
a good day out here, on March 13. If you have missed any of the second | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
League Cup semifinal, you can catch up with it at 10:30pm. A Celtic fan | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
League Cup semifinal, you can catch probably will not want to! You will | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
have seen enough of it already, if you are a Ross County fan, you can | :43:30. | :43:31. | |
see it over and over. Final word today before we head to | :43:32. | :43:44. | |
the English FA Cup, for Ross County, what a performance, what a day for | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
them, what a night, dancing in the streets of Dingwall(!) we talked | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
about comparisons with 2010, real character shown, great night to | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
celebrate, and a final to look forward to. Not just Dingwall, but | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
the rest of the country, will be looking forward to it. The other | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
side of the calling? I remember looking down when John Collins was | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
manager, fantastic day for Hibernian fans, so emotional. Fantastic win | :44:16. | :44:19. | |
for them, and Hibernian fans will want to see that again. I want to | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
see a good open game of football. We have a couple of teams that will | :44:26. | :44:28. | |
play a very good open game of football. We have given it our best | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
shot to have a word with Ronnie Deila but that dressing room door is | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
nailed shut! There will be some harsh words being said in that | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
particular area, we will have the reaction later on the BBC sport | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
Scotland website, and so you may be able to get the reaction there are, | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
we have run out of time, thank you very much to my guests. All of the | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
best for the final on March 13, Alan Stubbs. We wondered whether | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
lightning can strike twice between Ross County and Celtic in a | :45:06. | :45:07. |