How come other Premiership clubs want Celtic semi gain?

How come other Premiership clubs want Celtic semi gain?

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It's not necessarily just Celtic enthusiasts who'll be eager them on in Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-last with St Johnstone.

Those who assist Hibernian, Dundee United, St Mirren - and perhaps even the greater pessimistic Aberdeen followers - can even be hoping Brendan Rodgers holders win for a single very simple purpose...

A ultimate involving Celtic and Aberdeen - whatever the consequence - will imply the very best five finishers inside the Scottish Premiership is going to be certain Europe next time.

Why is?
The Scottish Cup winners generate a spot within the Europa League Engage in-off round, Using the team that finishes third within the Premiership likely into the next qualifying spherical.

Whoever is fourth, might be from the equivalent phase from the Meeting League.

Even so, if Celtic get the cup, everything shuffles down as they have presently clinched a location inside the Champions League qualifiers. Rangers will too.

Which means the Europa Participate in-off area - and also the certain 6-sport Convention League marketing campaign that comes along with it - goes to whoever finishes 3rd in the league.

At present, that is Hibs. But United and Aberdeen and St Mirren - albeit the arithmetic is massively against them - are still in the mix.

But even the clubs who overlook out on 3rd could however be rewarded.

Fourth place will be upgraded from Convention League to Europa League, with that Convention spot gonna whoever finishes fifth.

St Johnstone, naturally, could scupper all this with a 2nd victory above Celtic inside of per month.

Need to they do so, then either they or Aberdeen could look ahead to at the very least six profitable games in the Meeting League arrive the autumn.