It’s Scottish Cup weekend once again as Celtic host St Mirren for a place in the quarter-finals.
St Mirren are the only team to have beaten the champions domestically this season. That was in Paisley however, and facing them in Glasgow presents an entirely different challenge for Stephen Robinson’s men. The Hoops easily dispatched Morton with ease in the last round, and will be looking to maintain their unbeaten home run that dates back to a Champions League tie with RB Leipzig in October.
Celtic Park will be one of only two fifth round ties involving Premiership clubs that will have VAR in operation this weekend. Rangers against Partick Thistle is the other, with both Livingston and Dundee United opting against forking out the extra £10,000 it would cost them in order to have the eye in the sky watching over the on field ref in their ties against Inverness CT and Kilmarnock respectively.
