Kyogo and Mooy inspire sizzling Celtic as they blow Hearts away to keep Treble on track - 3 talking points

Celtic stormed into the Scottish Cup semi finals with another relentless, remorseless show of attacking football to end Hearts’ interest in the competition.

Ange Postecoglou’s side dominated at Tynecastle from the first whistle and could have won by a greater margin than the three goals scored by Aaron Mooy, Kyogo and Cameron Carter-Vickers. The visitors blew their hosts away with the intensity of their start, rampaging down the left almost straight from kick-off, Sead Haksabanovic - in for Daizen Maeda - getting in behind Michael Smith to set up a shooting chance for Reo Hatate and the midfielder thunderous effort was touched over the top by Jambos’ captain for the day, Zander Clark.

Postecoglou’s disappointment at not going a goal up in the first minute was forgotten when they went ahead in the second minute. This time the danger came from Jota on the right and when the Portuguese delivered his cross, Mooy met it first time to slam a 12 yard shot high past the keeper.

Hearts got through the initial spell without further damage but spent most of the time just trying to get close down their opponents until they broke with real intent in the 23rd minute and almost levelled. A Jorge Grant ball into the box was nodded down for Toby Sibbick to smash a fierce shot towards the bottom corner, only for Joe Hart to plunge low to his left and get a strong hand to it. The keeper copped a sore one as Josh Ginnelly tried to get in on the rebound but the ball stayed out.

Ten minutes from the break, Hearts had their keeper to thank for keeping them in touch. Clark came out to block Hatate’s shot from eight yards and while the Japanese should have scored, it was still a fine a save. On the stroke of the interval, just as Hearts were