What Celtic fans are saying outside Hampden as big Scottish Cup kick-off vs St Johnstone nears

Celtic fans are really looking forward to the Scottish Cup tie against St Johnstone this afternoon.

Brendan Rodgers is fully focused on the Hampden clash as the Celtic manager aims to bring the Scottish Cup home to the Parkhead trophy cabinet.

But before he can do that, the Hoops gaffer needs to get past St Johnstone first and todays clash will give Rodgers the perfect chance to exact revenge for the SPFL defeat a couple of weeks ago.

As the big build-up continues, Celtic fans heading to Hampden are giving their thoughts on the big Scottish Cup clash and how they think the result is going to.

Celtic fans want ‘revenge’ on St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup

Canvassing fan opinion outside Hampden, PLZ Soccer captured the mood of the Celtic supporters as they laid out their

“I was at the Kilmarnock game last weekend and within 25 minutes, the game was done and dusted. I think we’ll see the same today.”

“I think there is was a wee bit of revenge in the air.”

“I would say that [revenge] is in the back of some guys minds, but it’s anybody’s game today, so you have to park those don’t you and just you have to go for it.”

“Just treat this as a cup final. I think everybody has a chance on a cup final day, especially today, their supporters are passionate supporters, just like Celtic. So I think they’ll bring a lot to the game.

“Hopefully we play the way we played last week against Kilmarnock. I think we’ll beat them easy, hopefully. They’ve beaten us before, On Cup games, you just don’t know, but hopefully not.”

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🗣 'Everybody has a chance in a Cup game, especially today'

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Hopefully the scoreline will be as easy for Celtic as a friend of a St Johnstone director made claimed it could be. A 7-0 hammering would go down well with the Celtic fans and send a massive message to Scottish football and Rangers.

Celtic’s Scottish Cup starting XI vs St Johnstone

Brendan Rodgers has named his starting XI to face St Johnstone and it would have been interesting to canvass fan opinion on this:

First team: Sinisalo, Taylor, Scales, Carter-Vickers, Johnston, Engels, McGregor (C), Hatate, Maeda, Forrest, Idah.
Subs: Bain, Trusty, Jota, Kühn, McCowan, Schlupp, Bernardo, Ralston

The same team that battered Kilmarnock starst at Hampden and, hopefully, Celtic will provide the same type of performance and scoreline that blew Derk McInnes’ side away.