Celtic Into Scottish Cup Final

20 Monday, April 24, 2017 SPORTS Football Milik FA Cup semi-final, Wembley: saves Arsenal 2 Man City 1 English Premier League: Burnley 0 Man Utd 2 Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 2 English Championship: Aston Villa 1 Birmingham 0 Scottish Cup semi-final, Hampden: Celtic 2 Rangers 0 blushes Spanish La Liga: Milan while Roma are at Pescara on Minutes later, Consigli his first touch of the ball had rkadiusz Milik came off Monday. was quick to collect the ball Napoli back on level terms the bench to save Napoli’s Belgium midfielder Dries after Lorenzo Insigne’s curler when he controlled Kalidou Ablushes with a late leveller in a Mertens, who has played as a bounced off the inside of the Koulibaly’s nod-down at a 2-2 draw at Sassuolo yesterday. striker during Milik’s injury far post. corner to sweep past Consigli. Maurizio Sarri’s men absence, broke the deadlock After those reprieves, It was the Pole’s fifth league travelled to Reggio Emilia seven minutes after the restart Sassuolo poured forward goal of the campaign and first trailing second-placed Roma with a rare header that gave sensing an upset and were since September having been Real Sociedad 1 Deportivo la Coruna 0 by two points in the battle for him his 22nd league goal of the almost rewarded 10 minutes sidelined for the best part of Celta Vigo 0 Real Betis 1 automatic entry to next season’s season. from the end when Reina could six months after rupturing his Las Palmas 1 Alaves 1 Champions League. Sassuolo pulled level seven only parry Paolo Cannavaro’s anterior cruciate knee ligament Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 3 But having failed to find minutes later largely thanks to flick-on from a free-kick on in October. German Bundesliga: the net in a messy first half, Napoli captain Marek Hamsik. the right. Napoli regained the Freiburg v Bayer Leverkusen (1330), Napoli hit the woodwork twice His mistimed header back to But moments later, second- momentum but Mertens’s Schalke v RB Leipzig (1530). on their way to an eighth draw goalkeeper Pepe Reina was half substitute Luca Mazzitelli drive curled over and Pol Lirola of the campaign that leaves intercepted by Domenico pounced on Berardi’s overhead blocked a late Insigne effort. Italian Serie A: them third, nine points behind Berardi, who scored in the 59th kick to beat the Spanish keeper Napoli left the Mapei leaders Juventus and one off minute. down low with his maiden Serie Stadium amid angry protests Roma. Napoli should have pulled in A goal. after their last-gasp penalty Juventus, bidding for a record front again on 65 minutes but It prompted Sarri to replace claims were waved away despite sixth consecutive scudetto, a Mertens free kick rattled off Brazilian midfielder Jorginho a Mertens flick appearing to host Genoa later on Sunday Andrea Consigli’s crossbar. with Milik, who with practically come off Cannavaro’s arm. Celtic into Scottish Cup final Sassuolo 2 Napoli 2 Glasgow Rodgers said his side were a joy once in their previous five hesitated in coming to collect Chievo 1 Torino 3 second-half penalty by Scott to watch. games, but with Celtic enjoying Kieran Tierney’s through ball Lazio 2 Palermo 2 Sinclair sealed a 2-0 win “Everything you would want the lion’s share of possession a allowing Griffiths to run in on AC Milan 1 Empoli 2 forA champions Celtic over bitter from your team to play in terms goal seemed inevitable and it goal and the striker was brought Sampdoria 1 Crotone 2 rivals Rangers and a place in the of composure, temperament duly came through McGregor. down by a horribly mistimed Udinese 2 Cagliari 1 Scottish Cup final yesterday. and technical quality,” purred Moussa Dembele brought sliding challenge from James Juventus 4 Genoa 0 Sinclair’s penalty and a first- Rodgers. down Mikel Lustig’s long ball Tavernier. half effort by Callum McGregor “We restricted Rangers to very over the top of the Rangers Foderingham nearly made French Ligue 1: set them up with a May 27 date few opportunities and the only defence and laid it back into the amends as he palmed Sinclair’s with Aberdeen -- who beat disappointment was we didn’t path of the Scottish midfielder, spot-kick on to the inside of holders Hibs 3-2 on Saturday -- score more.” whose first-time strike with his the post but the ball bounced and a potential domestic treble His Rangers counterpart left-foot rolled into the bottom over the line to double Celtic’s for the first time in 16 years. Pedro Caixinha felt his side corner. advantage. McGregor and Sinclair’s goals showed Celtic too much respect Rangers were then relieved to Celtic then had two chances avenged defeat at the hands of in the first half. see Dembele, scorer of five goals in quick succession with Rangers at the same stage last “At half-time we tried to in five Old Firm appearances, Foderingham tipping over year and extended their unbeaten change some things but I think limp out of the game on the half a fierce strike from Griffiths run to 41 domestic matches this we needed to be more aggressive hour with a pulled hamstring to before Dedryck Boyata season. in defending,” he said. be replaced by Leigh Griffiths. headed over from close It brings to an end a 92-year “I think they deserved to win Rangers made two changes at range. Toulouse 1 Nice 1 Hampden Park hoodoo but we could have done, and the break with Joe Garner and Despite Celtic’s dominance Saint Etienne 1 Rennes 1 for Celtic, who failed to beat should have done, much better.” Andy Halliday making way for Rangers captain Kenny Miller Lyon 1 Monaco 2 Rangers in the last four of the Rangers kicked off at Joe Dodoo and Barrie McKay. was presented with a golden competition on their previous Hampden but it was to be the But just as they started to chance to pull one back when Russian Premier League: five attempts since their last closest they were to the ball for threaten they conceded a penalty he got on the end of Tavernier’s Tomsk 1 Orenburg 2 victory at this stage in 1925. the majority of the half. from a quick Celtic breakaway. cross, but sent his weak header Samara 0 Rubin Kazan 0 Celtic manager Brendan Rangers had conceded just Goalkeeper Wes Foderingham straight at Craig Gordon. (AFP) Krasnodar 2 Arsenal Tula 0.

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