Celtic shrugged off hypothesis over supervisor Ange Postecoglou’s future to finish a home treble by beating Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3-1 within the Scottish Cup closing on Saturday.
Postecoglou, who has been linked with the vacant managerial place at Tottenham, gained his fifth trophy in two seasons at Celtic because of targets from Kyogo Furuhashi, Liel Abada and Jota.
A treble of Scottish Premiership, League Cup and Scottish Cup is the eighth in Celtic’s historical past, 5 of which have come within the final seven seasons.
Postecoglou insisted forward of the sport that his focus was on ending a profitable marketing campaign on a excessive.
But the Australian’s aspect struggled to hit high gear in opposition to second-tier Inverness, regardless of dominating possession and the shot rely.
It took till seven minutes earlier than halftime for the Hoops to interrupt the impasse when Furuhashi thrashed residence his thirty fourth objective of the season from Matt O’Riley’s cross.
Celtic regarded residence and dry 25 minutes from time when captain Callum McGregor led a counter-attack to sq. for Abada to faucet residence from shut vary.
Inverness, although, arrange a grandstand end when Daniel MacKay’s bullet header pulled a objective again with six minutes to go.
But Celtic set the seal on one other piece of silverware in stoppage time when Jota managed Abada’s cross and prodded residence.
Ange Postecoglou stated: “I’m very proud of the whole group. It’s a bit surreal when you think about what we have achieved.
“I’ve said before, coming off the back of last year when we probably had some unexpected success in terms of the double, the challenge this year was to come back bigger and better. I said it on the final day of last season, as we wanted to try and improve.
“It’s easy for me to say that, but the lads have just embraced every challenge along the way. For us to do that, we needed to fill that gap from last year by winning the Scottish Cup.
“It’s such a great occasion anyway, and this football club has got an unbelievable history of success.
“For this group, they have got their small bit of history in there now, which is theirs forever, and I couldn’t be prouder of them.”
Speaking of his private success, he added: “When you join this football club, of course it’s a great opportunity but there is also a lot of responsibility there.
“‘There are certain levels of performance and success that you have to deliver. You take that on board.
“So to do something that few have done is brilliant. All the success I have had in my career, it’s all special in its own way. But this one I am extremely proud of.”
Originally printed as Treble kings! Ange’s Celtic reign supreme in dominant cup win
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
