Cameron Carter-Vickers. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
GET CARTER – 7/10 – Yeah, I can do it again… And hoofed it into the Zombie end. No cruise missile repeat this week but the big mhan was all about rugged control and asserting dominance over their hopeful, pacy forwards.
Callum McGregor. St Johnstone v Celtic, Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 20 April 2025. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Callum McGregor. Man of the Match at Hampden in the Scottish Cup semi-final win over St Johnstone.
CALMAC – 8.5/10 MOTM – Bossed it. Energised it. Won it. When we needed the revs, the skipper floored the gas (that’s USA-talk for fully depressing the accelerator to its maximum position, kids. Go watch some action movies,
get off tik-tok). Cool and precise, clipped in a beauty. Then took charge properly and carved them up. Had us in cruise control, but a cruise at top-speed that knackered St.Johnstone mentally after 30 minutes and left them dribbling on the canvas fifteen minutes later. He was both architect and demolition man.
THE TERMINATOR – 6.5/10 – There’s so much more to come from this bhoy. Get the feeling he’s absorbing the lessons learned from his captain and mapping out his game-plan. We see in bursts the class and moments of invention that he’s capable of, and I think the culmination of his educational first season in the Hoops will pay off big-time soon.
Reo Hatate. St Johnstone v Celtic, Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday 20 April 2025. Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
HAKUNA HATATE – 8/10 – Keep reminding yeez – when Reo wakes up and logs in to the game we cannot fail. Felt his way in quietly for half an hour then announced his readiness with a swivel and shift of the hips that took out two of them on the edge of their box and almost created the opener. It was but an aperitif, m’lud – in the next fifteen minutes he racked up three assists and had the cowhands telling half-time fireside tales of the Japanese ghost they thought they’d seen lurking around their area. Reo at his most fluid is Reo at his most destructive and I’ve been telling doubters that for weeks now as he’s been our main sorcerer. On this form, unplayable in this country. Keep it going for a few week, lhad.
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