18/3/2008 Scottish FA Cup - Celtic vs Aberdeen

Celtic is looking ahead beyond this Scottish FA Cup live online commentary and radio telecast replay between them and Aberdeen and hoping that Rangers do their part and set up an Old Firm FA Cup final at Hampden to end the season on a high. This might not be the best thing to do as they still have to overcome the Dons tonight but one cannot blame the Hoops for doing so given their record against Aberdeen, including a recent 5-1 thrashing at Parkhead. Despite needing a late goal from Hesselink to salvage a draw and earning this replay at their own ground, there is certainly enough quality in the Celtic side to beat Aberdeen and then a semi final date with Queen of the South which certainly will not worry Gordon Strachan's side too much, even if they respect the First Division side for getting this far in the competition. They certainly know that on any day, a side like Aberdeen can always experience a time when they suddenly find themselves in top gear and push top sides to their limits. That was what happened at Pittodrie where the Dons could count themselves unlucky in some aspects to not have taken the tie.

Jimmy Nicholl faces some worrying injury problems ahead of this live online commentary and radio telecast Scottish FA Cup match between Celtic and Aberdeen but has instead tried to concentrate on trying to silence the fierce Celtic support early in the game with a goal. Definitely Nicholl would like his team not to repeat the earlier 5-1 thrashing they suffered against Celtic on the same ground in the league earlier but some of the positives from that same game was that they were not exactly played off the park but Celtic made all their chances count. Aberdeen showed what they were made off in the first meeting in this competition last week and had they converted some of their earlier chances, it could have been Aberdeen in the semi finals now instead of having to face this live online commentary and radio telecast Scottish FA Cup replay between Celtic and Aberdeen. Nicholl might also use some of the Celtic players' comments to fire up his players, and is also hopeful that a large crowd will not be present at Parkhead, which might be expected due to dropping attendances for cup games in Scotland this season.