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Celtic stayed on course for a domestic treble after cruising to a 3-0 Scottish Cup quarter-final win at Hearts on Saturday.

"We started really strong and knew we had to. Celtic have already retained the League Cup and are nine points clear of Rangers in the league title fight. Hearts are on track to finish third in the Premiership behind Celtic and Rangers for the second consecutive season.

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou hailed his players for suffocating the Tynecastle atmosphere as they cruised into the Scottish Cup semi-finals with a 3-0 ...

It really set the stall for us to go on and win the game." "Obviously coming into this game with the energy and trying to win it to get through, and losing a goal right away was difficult. "We got him through to half-time but you could see he wasn't moving well. They have navigated the whole week really well." "It was important, we spoke about it," he said. "We didn't want to give them any oxygen.

CELTIC manager Ange Postecoglou is blanking all talk of a Treble this season after watching his side cruise past Hearts to reach...

“This group does work hard every and it’s okay me saying that, but we see it out there. And we weren’t a bad team back then. “We never look beyond the next challenge. The lads have embraced that, they understand that if you take your eye off the ball you are going to trip up. “We’ve got Hibs next week and that’s where our focus is. There isn’t a person who hasn’t got an interest or some skin in the game.

Joe Hart: The Celtic goalkeeper made a quite superb double save midway through the opening period when he got down to parry Toby Sibbick's low drive on the ...

Yuki Kobayashi (Starfelt 46): A rare outing for the Japanese centre-back who came on for the injured Starfelt at the break. The Portuguese wide man looked in the mood from the off and certainly had the beating of Kingsley whenever he took him on. Reo Hatate: Ange Postecoglou reinstated the Japanese midfielder at the expense of Matt O'Riley and he blasted in an effort within 60 seconds that Zander Clark had to tip over the crossbar. The skipper was alongside Mooy and Hatate at his inspirational best and always had a firm grip of the engine room and stopped Hearts from breaking on numerous occasions. The player of the year contender was restored to the side in place of Alexandro Bernabei. It was he who headed home the third to put a more emphatic gloss on the scoreline.

A bit of an anti-climax this one, if you are a football fan, but if you are a Celtic fan it was joy all the way. An excellent, well taken, crisp goal from ...

But in the meantime, it is great to see the BBC making a public fool of itself, is in not? We now have 12 games to go – 10 in the League and 2, we suppose, in the Scottish Cup. Then Carter-Vickers got a third in the second half, and the game was over.

CELTIC stormed through to the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup as goals from Aaron Mooy and Kyogo bookended the first-half at Tynecastle...

At times, it can almost feel as if Joe Hart goes looking for something to do given the lack of action that often takes place in front of his goal. Just moments later, there was nothing Clark could do as another devastating, sweeping Celtic attack ended with the ball flying into the home net. Johnston ventured forward and swung a cross into the Hearts area, but as the ball left his foot, he was clattered into by Andy Halliday as he arrived late in his attempt to block.

Celtic fans lit up the Roseburn Stand with pre-match flares and their favourites showed real flair on the pitch to secure a slot in the semi-final of the ...

He had been cool at the back and creative going forward. Jota, whose reading of the game was admirable throughout, then stole the ball, cut inside and drove towards goal. They were regular outlets and the 25-year-old Japanese star was at his impish best when he forced Clark to make another telling save. Ange Postecoglou’s squad were relentless and so was the black-capped drummer in the Roseburn Stand. In fact, Celtic clicked into gear in the first minute when quicksilver Reo Hatate signalled his and Celtic’s intent by spinning away from his marker before sending a curling shot effort towards Hearts’ goal. Hearts were on the back foot.

Everything Aaron Mooy had to say in his post-match presser after Celtic defeated Hearts 3-0 at Tynecastle to reach the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

I feel like I'm getting a bit older, so I'm just trying to maximize everything I'm doing and I'm at Celtic which is a club that you feel you get the support from and you feel everything that you can possibly feel in football. It's not like I'm not enjoying it that much I when the whistle goes, and we've won and done a job that's when you enjoy it. You feel it all at Celtic but I'm enjoying the challenge and hopefully it'll be a good season. You feel everything at this club - the support like the pressure, everything in football you can feel it. I do enjoy it when it's a good game. You just take it one game at a time. They see you when you make the runs, they see the way we play the system and we create chances. We just go there, and we've got to do our job and do our movements and try and win the game. Sometimes you have to be resilient, and we've done that in the past. It's not my best as I scored goals in Australia earlier in my career. You are on a real scoring streak this season. As long as we keep going, that's our job to win.

The Aussie is in red hot form and Sunday morning coffee will be even more enjoyable with Scottish Cup semi to look forward to.

“The supporters and everyone else can decide on that stuff. “Until the game is won, I don’t enjoy it that much. We did that and passed the test. I won’t watch the full match again. Mooy said: “It’s not my best goalscoring season so far – I scored goals in Australia earlier in my career. After Celtic moved a step closer to a domestic Treble with victory in Gorgie – their 13th win in a row – Mooy said: “Is this the happiest I’ve been in my career? “I thought we did the job that we came here to do. “Obviously, we want to do it, we want to win every game we play in. We played well in stages of the match and it’s not always like that away from home. But he’s adamant that he is taking in the whole experience as he bids to lift every domestic trophy available this term. Everything you can feel in football, you feel it at Celtic. But the 32-year-old insists he’s savouring every minute of his time under

Stephen Frail says he jumped at the chance to get back into coaching but admits he left a great job behind.

We’re trying to get up the table as high as we can.” “It was a good company with big players. “I jumped at it,” he said. “It was an easy one, made even easier by the position that they’re in, in the top league in Scotland, and with a young manager who has ambitions to be as good as he possibly can be.” “Hopefully there’s enough in there – and we’re sure there is – not only to consolidate this season in the Premiership, but to build and look higher. “I was in a good job, really rewarding, but the opportunity to get back in and work in coaching is just something I’ve done since I finished playing in 2002.

We pick out three talking points from Celtic's 3-0 win over Hearts in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals ...

At the end of January, Hearts looked booked for third place in the Premiership following wins over all their nearest challengers in Hibs, Aberdeen and St Mirren. He should be eyeing 35 in the 12 games set to remain for Celtic across both the Premiership and Scottish Cup. They are far from the only support to turn to pyro this week, let alone this season – Rangers’ fans put on a white-sparkler display at Easter Road on Wednesday, and in League One on Tuesday Dunfermline fans celebrated a goal with a black smoke-bomb.

Everything Aaron Mooy had to say in his post-match presser after Celtic defeated Hearts 3-0 at Tynecastle to reach the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup.

I feel like I'm getting a bit older, so I'm just trying to maximize everything I'm doing and I'm at Celtic which is a club that you feel you get the support from and you feel everything that you can possibly feel in football. It's not like I'm not enjoying it that much I when the whistle goes, and we've won and done a job that's when you enjoy it. You feel it all at Celtic but I'm enjoying the challenge and hopefully it'll be a good season. You feel everything at this club - the support like the pressure, everything in football you can feel it. I do enjoy it when it's a good game. You just take it one game at a time. They see you when you make the runs, they see the way we play the system and we create chances. We just go there, and we've got to do our job and do our movements and try and win the game. Sometimes you have to be resilient, and we've done that in the past. It's not my best as I scored goals in Australia earlier in my career. You are on a real scoring streak this season. As long as we keep going, that's our job to win.

There's been drama, laughs and tears as the stars of Scottish football gave a demanding audience a bit of everything.

Rangers’ Champions League campaign was a straight to a DVD affair (which non one will buy) while Hearts were outshone by the big names. Dundee United fans watched from behind the sofa as AZ Alkmaar wreaked their revenge for a 1-0 Tannadice win by slamming seven past the Tangerines in the Netherlands. Nine points clear at the top of the table, his Celtic stars are on course for a blockbuster season. It was going to take something special to overshadow Brora dumping Hearts out a couple of years ago, but Jim Goodwin’s team fluffed their lines massively in Ayrshire when they went down 1-0 to the West of Scotland Premier Division outfit. It may not be packed with A-listers or be as visually enticing as its bigger budget rivals, but the storylines and dialogue are second to none. The Premiership is being upstaged by the

"These are the magic days, Celtic being proper Celtic, upholding a legacy, forging new history; heroes for a new age, and a relish for more and more of it ...

MIBBERY – 3/10 – Meh, not even Gollum on the VAR could conjure any feint of sorcery to defy the hooped machine. These are the magic days, Celtic being proper Celtic, upholding a legacy, forging new history; heroes for a new age, and a relish for more and more of it shared by us all. Given the event and the high stakes, the Bhoys turned in a champions performance, eviscerating them with rapier pace and blunting their rebuke with stoicism. A tank with the heart of a lion and a fearsome desire to engage in combat and win. Cup fun over until we get to pump their big cousins again, Ange will focus on the Edinburgh sequel next weekend – Trainspotting 3 – and the beginning of the final countdown as the games left tick down from 10. DEADLY NIGHTSHADE – 7.5/10 – ‘Aye the wee mhan canny shake off those bas…YAAAAASS!” He’s here, he’s there, he’s every flaminwhere, and BANG! WAYNE GRETZKY – 8/10 – Another rocky mountain man to work off CCV in a combination of steel and granite. Still gave us a shift but after Wednesday’s worldy the promise of more Hacky wizardry was in the air, only to be overwhelmed by the stench from the stands as his threat fizzled out. Tam McManus levels of bollocks…So Mooey stayed up all night to prove a point and guided in a spanking ripping yarn of a finish before they’d even taken the protective sash off the VAR monitor, to spill lunchtime Guinness all over the place. ROXIE – 8.5/10 – Soccer expert Tam McManus thinks Celtic need to replace Joe Hart…It’s showtime and the showgal is a stopper and a half! CALMAC – 7/10 – Where’s the Calmac brand of kitchen roll that’s the most obvious endorsement ever seen: “CALMAC – absorbency like no other; tidy your (big…) hoose today”. STAR LORD – 6/10 – What happened?

After the disappointment at losing and frustration in knowing that for the second game against Glasgow City this season, Celtic FC Women deserved more from ...

We will need to be wary of that on Sunday, but if we perform well, I’m sure we can continue to score goals,” Amy Gallacher stated. “I think all the attacking players love playing in this Celtic team,” Amy said. Also trying to improve our own stats as a team, and our own tasks that we set for this week. We have done very well, but there are also two other teams near the top of the league who have done very well as well. All our focus is just on Hibs, and trying to get the three points. “It is important to focus on each game at a time, especially after a game which we didn’t win. “The numbers are still incredible, in terms of goals scored and goals conceded. We are the top goalscorers and have conceded the least goals in the league. “The fixture against Hibs in August, was probably one of our best games this season,” Alonso said. Celtic have a decent goal difference advantage but it’s top versus bottom for Glasgow City today against the quite literally pointless Glasgow Women and that could end up in a record scoreline. Spartans are relying on results going their way in those two games and they’d have to win against Hearts if they are to make it through. Instead, and it’s maybe an idea worth looking at in the men’s game, the top sis teams post split play each other home and away.

Michael Gannon mans the phones on Scottish Cup quarter-final weekend as Hoops fans take great delight in Tynecastle trouncing.

Whataboutery is alive and well, but what about relegation scrappers Kilmarnock after getting bounced out of the cup in Inverness. But Danny Robertson, Paisley, said: ”Absolutely unbelievable reading the Hibs fans talking about other clubs supporters. Ex-Celt John Hartson spoke of his concerns about the lack of competition but the huge gulf in finances make it pretty tough for the rest. Robert Livingstone, Palm Beach, said: “Morelos was a good player and goal scorer, but after a serious injury and six months out, he never was the same. The Columbian is out of contract in the summer with strong talk of a move to Sevilla. [Celtic](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/celtic-fc) do their talking on the pitch.”

The full back has quickly become a fans' favourite since filling the boots of Josip Juranovic.

But here, even before I had kicked a ball, I would go downtown and grab a few things and have a cap pulled down low and a sweater on and I still got people coming up to me on the street saying to me, 'welcome to the biggest club in the world’. "It was then I started to realise, ok, this is going to be a little bit different than anything I have ever experienced! And the former Montreal defender admits he is still getting used to the 24/7 football obsession in Glasgow. He told me it wouldn't faze me and these are the types of games that you live for – the atmosphere, going through the tunnel, that passion. "Even the night before there were fans lined up outside our hotel all night long and cheering us as we drove off in the morning too. And Johnston has admitted he's loved his whirlwind start in a TV interview back in his homeland.