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00:00very much Shema and as you can see Simo Valakari has made three changes at halftime
00:08Nicky Clark, Adama Sidibe and Barry Douglas all heading off Mackenzie Kirk,
00:13Benjamin Kempioca and Taylor Steven three to come on
00:30that ends to the first half give it Celtic this absolutely huge lead
00:54the problem for St Johnson well there are many problems for St Johnson but when you
01:03consider that Brendan Rodgers will decide to
01:10given that defeat two weeks ago I can't imagine Celtic will let up
01:19you can only really draw those parallels to when Aberdeen came to Celtic
01:24Park got their two-all draw just a few weeks before the Premier Sports Cup semi-final and everyone
01:33was suggesting Aberdeen might be title challengers maybe even a trophy and then it was 6-0 at Hampden
01:40Park you fear for St Johnson yeah you do and you're right because I don't see Celtic lighting up
01:48they're going to score four again in the second half probably not but you wouldn't bet against it
01:55I think Neil's absolutely spot on I mean look obviously Celtic are
02:02much bigger club than St Johnson and the resources are huge in comparison but that's all well and good you
02:08need to turn up and perform every week and that isn't easy and that's the challenge you know it comes
02:17back to the whole debate in the comments from that man Brendan Rodgers and just making sure that the
02:24complacency does not seep in and he's had a wonderful reaction since then obviously they stuck five past
02:34Kilmarnock and the performance level was very good it's probably up there with the as good as has been
02:39all season and they followed up here this afternoon
02:46very very good from from Celtic
02:48and a lot of it is down to that intensity you know the when they play with that tempo it's very
02:57difficult for sites to to live with them
02:59the board goes from below this but now with McGregor
03:12Maida's on the move again McGregor asks Taylor to push forward
03:24scales
03:24the winger did his job brilliantly
03:44here's Taylor Maida he's flattened out at the corner flag
03:50should have managed to keep that in but
03:54and I'm not sure how Adam either didn't manage to put it in the back of the net
04:00I mean great play for Forrest drops the shoulder hits the byline
04:06still not sure
04:12below there's just a handful of wee shots there perhaps but
04:17didn't stop Adam either getting into position and
04:20could easily have been the fifth right at the start of the second half
04:26you see going back to what I was saying before the simplification of the game
04:32quick in the passing taking few touches getting the ball in the wide areas getting one v ones
04:36getting behind the fences and causing problems
04:44more from Carey now comes Sinisalo and he can let it drift into his own box
04:49the PFA Scotland team of the year was named in the last few days Celtic had
05:03seven players in it Michael Johnson Carter Vickers McGregor
05:06Mayer Hatata
05:10...Made up
05:13Kud hasn't even made this 11th
05:20Deliveres the cross
05:34There's a perfect example
05:38It opens up that angle
05:42For the ball to get hit to the white man
05:44Quickly and expose them
05:46Up against the fullback
05:48And the corner goes quickly
05:51There's no respite for St Johnson
05:53And Tate just let that go under his foot
05:56I'd imagine it would have been a little bit shell-shocked
06:18At half-time
06:19They were creeping towards half-time
06:22You know in a
06:23Not a bad position
06:24And then rapid fire
06:29Goals
06:31Putting them 4-0 down
06:33Well that's a great save by Sinisalo to deny Mackenzie Kirk
06:47The flag was up in any case for offside
06:50There's the subs combining
06:59Taylor Stephen with the ball in Mackenzie Kirk with the effort
07:02Forrest
07:08Perfectly weighted for McGregor
07:10Celtics passing was so crisp
07:15In that first half
07:17Bengals tries to turn one round the corner for Johnson
07:20Look at that though
07:21Look at the urgency to go and win it back
07:23Bengals
07:27Loses the ball
07:28And then straight away
07:30Hard block intensity
07:3710-4 in the game
07:39In and out of possession
07:40Makes it extremely difficult for the opposition
07:42McGregor for Ida
07:47All taken down
07:52Well Sinisalo's not had a great deal to
07:59To do
08:00It was very tight
08:02Very tight indeed
08:04Lovely ball in
08:07Lovely little flick from Mackenzie Kirk
08:09Very good save from the goalkeeper as well
08:12It's that classic scenario for a goalkeeper
08:17Especially for Celtic in games like this
08:20Where they've not had anything to do
08:21But they've got to be concentrated
08:22For when
08:23Something like that happens
08:26I'm certainly sure he was there
08:30Here's Kirk again
08:37Oh what a goal that
08:38Is from Mackenzie Kirk
08:41That's a stunning strike
08:43And St Johnson get one back to
08:48Start the second half
08:50It's a wonderful goal from
08:51Mackenzie Kirk who got the winner in round four against Motherwell
08:55Well obviously Celtic complaining thinking
09:01That should have been a foul for Adam Eder
09:04The gap was
09:08You cannot
09:11Take error away from that strike
09:14It doesn't matter how concentrated the goalkeeper is
09:16He's not getting anywhere
09:17Near that
09:20Favre just asking the referee if he saw the two hands on his back there
09:24That is an absolutely sensational strike
09:30Well you take the context of the scoreline out of it
09:43It's likely that that effort will mean nothing
09:48They're just checking
09:50Whether first of all that
09:53Callum Scott had seen that
09:55But he's not
09:56He's not going out
09:57So Andrew Dallas and Alan Mulvaney
10:13Instructing Callum Scott to come across and have a look at this
10:19I mean look the foul will be
10:24The foul will be given
10:25It'll be given
10:28And you know I think it's probably the right decision
10:33It probably is
10:34I do think Adam Eder should be a little bit
10:37Tighter with that
10:39It's a free kick yes
10:41But I still think Eder should have done better
10:43What a strike from Mackenzie Kirk
10:46And unfortunately it's going to be disallowed
10:48Well it won't count
10:50It's a Celtic break
10:51Another two goes up
10:53Around Abner Park
10:55From those in green and white
10:56Takes the moment away
11:18He done
11:21Holds on to it this time
11:23Again
11:28Oh that would have been Robic Salton
11:30That would
11:31It's more of the same again
11:33You know hitting the front man's feet
11:3525-30 yards out from goal
11:38Get runners off him
11:39Changes the angle
11:44Things at say
11:45Cause his problems with the
11:46I'm not sure it's a shot
11:50But you know
11:51He's got his arms
11:52In the back
11:53And I do think it's a free kick
11:55But
11:57Getting stretched
11:59Pushing him
12:01He's almost just
12:02Keeping him at arm's length
12:04Yes a free kick
12:08But
12:09As the guys were saying
12:12There's no way back into this game for them
12:14There's a little bit of a
12:16Feel good fact
12:17They're seeing a goal
12:18That flying into the back of the net
12:19For St Johnson
12:20For their supporters
12:21Disappointing that it gets disallowed
12:24Up goes Kirk again
12:27And
12:29The offside flag is up
12:30Party time in the
12:41Hamden Park
12:42Hamden Park
12:42Sunshine
12:43To McKenna
12:56Kick
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13:01Kick
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13:07Kick
13:08Kick
13:14Chinese
13:14International
13:15Derr
13:16Sub
13:17Ins
13:31Scales
13:37allowed to stroll forward
13:40Maida
13:41Taylor
13:42Tate
13:45Carter Vickers
13:51Here's McGregor now
14:01Engles
14:05Brendan Rodgers
14:11Two is preparing a triple change
14:14Engles to Forrest
14:17I think we'll be two of those coming off now
14:21Iida
14:21Carter Vickers
14:26Johnson
14:27Tate
14:33Engles
14:37McGregor
14:37Great display of keep ball
14:40Yeah but keep ball with a purpose
14:42You know and then
14:43Again I go back to
14:44You know they're constantly on the move
14:46Rotating moving positions
14:48Stretching the off position
14:50And doing it at speed
14:51To pound suffer a lapse in concentration
15:01Forrest
15:06Gets turned
15:08Drives through the defence
15:10James Forrest goes down
15:11And the penalty is given
15:14Forrest on a weaving run
15:21There aren't too many complaints
15:26From the St Johnson players
15:27Just wondered whether
15:31Not too many complaints
15:37But I mean look
15:37I think it's a penalty kick
15:38I don't
15:39But it wasn't the most blatant
15:43When you saw it in real time
15:44You thought he'd been wiped out
15:45But I do think it's a penalty
15:48It's a great run from Forrest
15:50Picks up
15:51Drives at the heart of the defence
15:52It was just
16:00It was a hole I think
16:01That went in with the tackle
16:02And it looked as if he'd maybe
16:03Wiped him out in real time
16:05But it certainly wasn't the case
16:07They're checking it
16:08So we are having a look
16:15When you're running at such pace like that
16:19You get knocked off balance
16:23I just think the combination of the two
16:24Perhaps was enough
16:26Maybe we'll see another replay
16:28Maybe it'll have been the last bit of action
16:35For James Forrest as well
16:36Because I think he's about to get subbed
16:37He holds off
16:39Can Voka really well
16:41Do you know
16:43Looking at that replay
16:44May well be
16:46Scots
16:48Jim
16:49I think he's wiping Forrest out
17:00But he doesn't
17:07Well it's going to be
17:09And Amida will head off
17:16He'll be replaced by
17:18Jota
17:20So
17:22Dyson Maeda will go through the middle
17:24As he searches out a hat trick
17:25James Forrest
17:28Will be replaced by
17:30Nicholas Kuhn
17:31And the final change
17:40And the final change
17:40We'll see
17:41Luke McHugh
17:42Come on for Arnie Angles
17:45And when you see things like that
17:56Every other manager in the league
18:00Must look at that
18:01And think
18:01How can they compete with it
18:03And right now
18:06Nobody can
18:06No
18:10Exactly
18:10It wasn't as if it was lacking in the first place
18:19The personnel to
18:27Try
18:29And derail Celtic
18:31As Brendan Rogers looks to
18:42Add another treble
18:44It's Brendan
18:48Rodgers in his
18:50East side
18:51Aberdeen
18:53With like a handball from
19:00Kimpioca
19:01When said all that
19:05Aberdeen
19:06Do have the components
19:08In the side
19:10To go and hurt
19:11But one
19:13Obviously
19:18The second half
19:20The first and the second half
19:22Were completely different games
19:24In regards to how
19:26They were
19:27Panning out
19:29Hearts were
19:32Good in that first half
19:34And equally
19:36They were good in the second half
19:37But for different reasons
19:38But Aberdeen
19:40Were
19:40I was expecting more from them
19:45I've got to be honest
19:46Now Coon
19:51He's worked his way back into the
20:05Starting line up
20:06James Forrest
20:07Is he going to score a goal
20:1316 seasons it would be
20:15I think
20:15Does it have to come in the league
20:17I don't know
20:18I thought you'd be able to tell me that
20:19I think that's the case
20:20I think it's
20:21Yeah I think it's the
20:24Sixteen
20:25Or every season of the Premiership
20:37That's the
20:37That's the start
20:38Here's Chota
20:40Griffin
20:43He's only just
21:10On the pitch
21:11Five star showing from Celtic
21:24And there's still a quarter of this game
21:26To go
21:27Well first I've got to say
21:29It's a pretty smart finish
21:32Because it's a tight angle
21:33But this move
21:34You saw it so often
21:36In the first half of the season
21:37Oh it's a great goal
21:42But that underlap
21:43The drive and run
21:44From Alistair
21:46So often
21:49In the first half of the campaign
21:52Because
21:54It's a tight angle
21:56It's on the
21:58Half volley
21:59Great control finish
22:01From Chota
22:025-0
22:04And you just get the sense
22:06That they're
22:08Desperate to get more
22:11Celtic
22:12They really do not look like
22:14They're going to be letting up
22:14At all
22:15Now Joshua Pink
22:19Is on for
22:20Graham Carey
22:21Chota Hoon
22:25Now
22:26Loves the big
22:2720-23
22:31Semifinal
22:32Against Rangers
22:33Then scored
22:34In the
22:34Final
22:35Against
22:39Infernesco
22:40Calidoni
22:42Ian Thistle
22:42Heading off
22:46Briefly
22:46Away from Celtic
22:48Just about to reach
22:57The 70 minute mark
22:58They're 5-0 up
22:59But they're desperate
23:00To win the ball
23:01Any time
23:04They don't
23:05Have possession
23:06Guys
23:08Get to the ball
23:09Get to the ball
23:11Stephen
23:13Kirk
23:14To McPake
23:15Driven backwards
23:19By Johnson
23:20Illegally so
23:21Coming up in
23:31Midweek
23:31Premier Sports
23:372-2
23:38And then on
23:39Saturday
23:39Barcelona
23:41Scottish
23:44Scottish
23:45Final
23:47Will be
23:47Between
23:48Aberdeen
23:49And Celtic
23:51And Rio
23:54Hitate
23:55Is making
23:56Paolo
23:56Bernardo
23:57The Portuguese
24:01Will
24:02Come on
24:03To replace
24:04Him
24:04Did score in the
24:116-0
24:12Game
24:12Against
24:13St Johnson
24:13Back in
24:14Bida
24:22Just giving away to
24:38Kipyorka
24:38Bart
24:58I
24:59You
25:00You
25:01You
25:02You
25:04You
25:04You
25:05scale
25:19final 20 minutes
25:23it was all about how long it might take Celtic to get that first goal
25:35once they did it, they have not looked back
25:53scales to Sinisalo
25:56a little subside all around Celtic Park
26:05they must have
26:0990% of the stadium
26:12sorry, well you can understand
26:15Hampton Park, my mistake
26:18feels like a home game
26:22you
26:29you
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27:02you
27:03you
27:05you
27:06you
27:07you
27:09Bernardo, McCowan, Kuhn, asked Johnson to fill that space.
27:22Smeida won't be getting on the end of that.
27:35We're going to Kipioka.
27:39Now Holt.
28:05We're going to Kipioka.
28:23We're going to Kipioka.
28:33Steven Duke McKenna that makes way.
28:37And it's a debut for Nick Piezo.
28:41Signed in July from Port Vale.
28:48But he's had a nightmare of it with injuries.
29:04Now it comes on for us.
29:07First appearance in St Johnstone Colours.
29:09He came on.
29:132-1 to Celtic.
29:15On Serena.
29:20You see, you see this.
29:22I mean he's strong as an ox anyway.
29:27But he knows that he's up against now somebody who is equally adept at using their body.
29:35But he doesn't get touch tight the whole way.
29:38He steps away.
29:40Allows himself that strength.
29:45Now Kuhn.
29:51Once they're on the left, he was always struggling.
29:57You see.
30:02Here as this ball comes up.
30:04Steps away.
30:06Then he's able to go and challenge and win for the ball.
30:10Instead of allowing Ick Peaz out to feel where he is.
30:15Pin him and hold him where he wants him.
30:18Very good defending for Carter Vickers.
30:20And showing that.
30:22He's got other ways of being able to defend against strength.
30:25Which has been a criticism of.
30:30Celtic from a defensive point of view.
30:34To another change.
30:36Charles O'Johnstone after that.
30:40Deputise in there.
30:52Uncomfortable on this pitch.
30:56Of course, he started the last 12 games for the national team.
31:02At club level.
31:04after that.
31:05On the left.
31:07In.
31:08,
31:09.
31:14.
31:18.
31:19.
31:21.
31:23Taylor.
31:24Bernardo.
31:25.
31:26.
31:27Taylor again, into Sprangler near Sears, Kempioca, a neat turn, looks back for the option from Griffith, McPeak, first touch for Olsen,
31:57the target, but McGregor got there first, Stephen, and Maeda to Kuhn,
32:09some help now, and he wins the free kick,
32:29I might have been soft in the end, but I think it was just a combination of the challenge all the way,
32:41grabbing his arm a little bit, there's not much in there, but I just don't get what was that combination of the whole,
32:56look for a consolation,
33:20something for their supporters to cheer,
33:26Celtic will be determined to keep the clean sheets, and Kempioca fires it,
33:33straight in at the wall, flashed well over the top,
33:37Jason Holt,
33:41playing in his third Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic,
33:47and Kempioca fires it,
34:17a lot
34:47you
35:17it's a great run from jota down the left-hand side couldn't quite take it in his stride though
35:41he'd have been able to play at that split second quicker than it would have maybe been in front of
35:45the short term
35:59Mcgregor
36:13Taylor
36:15shot up bernardo on the edge could will leave it for ralston
36:23now mccowen
36:31mccowen deceives the st johnson players ends up with a corner
36:35they're still pushing him through but
36:42a bit of space for mcgregor finds coon now ralston back with the captain again who got it all started
36:50with that opening goal
36:56it's been a show of utter dominance
36:58you're right though for simo valakari this has to
37:10be parked they've got a huge task in the league five points behind dundee bottom of the table
37:17if they are to claw that back and get themselves away from relegation that would be
37:28yeah it'd be a monumental
37:30achievement if they were able to do it
37:33first game against motherwell away
37:35here's jota again
37:42and there were just no takers in the middle
37:44well jota can't believe it a bit of magic from the portuguese winger
37:49five goals since he returns
38:03five goals since he returns
38:13five goals since he returns
38:18it's griffin
38:21holt looks over the top
38:31bernardo
38:34taylor
38:37jota
38:43has to go and retrieve it
39:04it's on the end of his own layoff
39:05here goes mcgregor again
39:15he's been out
39:18today rory
39:22the good
39:23from celtic
39:25and he's the one that injects a lot of that initial pace
39:31into the the game which is so important for celtic
39:36never taking too many touches
39:41some driving runs as well here's jota once more
39:45could link up with maeda
39:47just over the top
39:49just had to get the shot away quickly he was getting closed down there's jota
40:03michael time for your player of the match this afternoon
40:06he's my man of the match
40:20well the one bit of good news for st johnston is there is to be no additional time at the end of the game
40:23of the 90 which is quite incredible after the two lengthy var checks but
40:42officials are there doing what i think everybody understands and would not
40:54criticize
40:54uh don't uh don't extend the the misery any longer
41:08that's enough of your big pocket
41:17so it will be
41:28ball in
41:30retrieved by Sprangler
41:32into the middle
41:33it was play on
41:35no actually the ball was out of play
41:38so it will be
41:43Aberdeen against Celtic
41:46in the Scottish Cup
41:48final for the 8th time
41:50first since
41:512017
41:52the Wizard of Oz
41:55Tom Rogic
41:58she won't
41:59Valakari
42:00already
42:02thanking each other for the game
42:10it's Celtic with the show
42:11of utter dominance
42:14five goals
42:17scored one
42:25before half time
42:26and Jota
42:27came off the bench
42:30to score within
42:31a couple of minutes
42:33so
42:33it will be Celtic and Aberdeen again
42:37as they met here
42:38in the semi-final
42:40last season
42:41and that
42:42turned into a real classic
42:44went all the way to penalties
42:45a three-all draw
42:47if we get half the drama
42:49of that game on May the 24th
42:51we'll be in for a treat
42:52but Celtic
42:53were levels above St. Johnson
42:58this afternoon
42:59their continued dominance
43:01of Scottish football
43:02goes on
43:02the potential for a treble
43:04goes on
43:06and right now
43:13there just looks
43:14no stopping them
43:16Aberdeen will have to come up
43:17with a plan
43:17with a plan
43:18with a plan
43:22Garcia
43:23and
43:24come up with a plot
43:25with
43:26blood
43:27with a plan
43:27with a plan
43:27with a plan
43:28with a plan