Jota reveals hidden Celtic sacrifices key star is making for Angeball as unity proves key to trophy march

Jota saluted Celtic’s entire unit after his strike edged Celtic closer to a dream Treble.

The Portuguese star nodded his 14th goal of the season to surge his team into the June showpiece against Inverness. Jota’s first-half header sank Rangers just three weeks after he had bagged the winner against the Light Blues in the Premiership. The winger has made a habit of delivering on the big occasions since arriving at Parkhead from Benfica and came good when it counted once more at Hampden.

Potentially, Celtic are now just two games from a Treble triumph with one more win guaranteeing the title before the Scottish Cup Final with the Highlanders. Jota is taking one step at a time and said: “There are still games to play and we need to keep winning to achieve that. We know every time we win we are closer to achieving that.”

He praised the group and said: “I’m very happy. The most important was to achieve the win to give us a passage to the final and I’m just proud of the boys. It’s a real achievement and we go again.

“I know the most important is always the win and as long as we keep doing our thing and stick with our principles we will be a very good quality team inside the pitch.

“We knew it was going to be a tough game, but we were well prepared. We put in a shift and I am proud of the boys. In the big games we show the best version of ourselves and this was no different.

“For the goal, that’s the moment of the game, but we knew what positions we have to occupy in the pitch and thankfully I was there to finish. I think sometimes people only look at the guys who score or get the assists.

“But CCV [Cameron Carter-Vickers] and Carl [Starfelt] have been fantastic and people don’t know the sacrifices Cameron makes to play games