Rocco Vata makes his Celtic case amid transfer swirls as Buckie put to sword in Scottish Cup rout - 3 talking points

Rocco Vata emerged from the Celtic cold in stormy Glasgow weather to round off a 5-0 Scottish Cup rout of Buckie Thistle.

The Highland League side knew they were up against it and five goals from five different scores did the damage on a day where five could have been ten. The linesman was one of the busiest men on the pitch with his offside flag working overtime with a number of disallowed goals and close VAR calls. A long check denied Liel Abada an early penalty thanks to an offside in the buildup and Kyogo was denied by a similar decision soon after.

Some moments of brilliance shone soon through the chaos. There was no offside about it just minutes later when the opening goal did arrive - and it came from a cracking combination from Celtic's two advanced midfielders. O'Riley picked out a bursting run from Bernardo, whose first touch took him through on goal and teed him up for an inch-perfect dink over Stuart Knight with his right foot.

Another offside flag denied Kyogo on the half hour mark but Buckie were only able to keep the score down for so long. As the half-hour mark passed, Odin Thiago Holm slalomed through the visiting defence and coolly finished low to Knight's left, in off the post and putting them firmly in charge.

On 40 minutes the game was virtually wrapped up when Kyogo finally did score a goal that counted. From a Buckie perspective, it was cruel, coming just after their best chance of the game. Josh Peters raced through on goal but lost his composure and hit Joe Hart's feet rather than the back of the net. Within 90 seconds the ball was up the other end, and Kyogo tapped it in for 3-0.

The second half started as the first had ended; with another Celtic goal. Luis Palma, who had momentarily