Jota fires Celtic to the brink of Treble as final nail hammered into Rangers season – 5 talking points

Celtic kept their Treble dream alive as they hammered a final nail into rivals Rangers' season – with Jota was the Hampden hero with the only goal of the Scottish Cup semi-final to set up a meeting with Inverness Caley Thistle.

And the victory makes it six games undefeated for Ange Postecoglou in a run stretching back a full year to the defeat in the last four of the competition last season. Michael Beale is now without a victory over the Hoops in four games since taking over the Ibrox helm and can now only look forward to that summer rebuild.

Rangers dominated but couldn't find the net and had an early chance when Nicolas Raskin had a pop but his shot was deflected wide. It showed the Light Blues were eager to start on the front foot and they dominated early on without creating any real clear cut in chances. In fact, it took until midway through the first half for the first shot on target - Allan McGregor beating away Alistair Johnston’s effort.

The Ibrox side suffered a bow 10 minutes before the break as Malik Tillman injured himself as he challenged Greg Taylor and had to limp off, replaced by Scott Arfield who was a goal hero in the win 12 months ago.

But having worked so hard to make a game of it, Rangers undone all their graft by conceding a simple opener as they were caught sleeping. Raskin challenged Matt O’Riley but was so busy protesting his innocence that he allowed Daizen Maeda to pick up the loose ball before crossing for Jota to head beyond McGregor.

Beale didn’t hesitate to act at half-time with Kent hooked for Fashion Sakala. And the Zambian was right in the thick of it early in the second half as he got on the end of Cantwell’s cross and there was a real scramble with Cameron Carter-Vickers making