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Celtic beat Inverness Caledonian Thistle in Scottish Cup to seal domestic treble

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Celtic clinched the domestic treble with a 3-1 Scottish Cup final win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Hampden Park.The showpiece occasion was played against the backdrop of mounting speculation around Tottenham's interest in Hoops boss Ange Postecoglou, who again had Kyogo Furuhashi to thank for his contribution.The Japan striker struck for the 34th time this season in the 38th minute of an otherwise nondescript first half to undo the good early work of Billy Dodds’ rank outsiders.The Championship outfit, who had not played a competitive game for a month, fell further behind when Hoops’ half-time substitute Liel Abada slid in a second in the 65th minute.Caley substitute Dan MacKay pulled a goal back with five minutes remaining, only for Portuguese winger Jota to restore Celtic’s two-goal advantage as the game slipped into six minutes of added time.It is the eighth time Celtic had completed the clean sweep of League, League Cup and Scottish Cup – a world record – and now eyes turn to see what the future holds for Postecoglou, who is the fifth Parkhead manager to win the treble.Postecoglou reflected on an "extraordinary season" afterwards.The Australian said on BBC One Scotland: "It is always harder when you are defending things and the challenge was can we be better and push on?"It feels great and is an occasion.

It is nice to finish it off that way."It is pretty relentless, but when you are at one of these big clubs with expectations, you kind of want that, it is why you come and embrace it."You want to be in a position to win things and that does come with a great responsibility, but I have loved every minute of the way the whole group has embraced that."On his own future, the Australian said: "I understand all

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