{"id":3503,"date":"2025-12-14T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:13:55","slug":"scottish-league-cup-final-defining-day-of-destiny-awaits-st-mirren-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"Scottish League Cup final: Defining day of destiny awaits St Mirren &#038; Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson: <\/b>&#8220;There will be a nervous energy, of course. We aren&#8217;t Celtic who get to every cup final or every other cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we have to embrace the day and enjoy the day but most of all what I coin it with is have faith over fear. Really believe in the system, in each other, in the staff, and the stuff we&#8217;ve put on in preparation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We see all the photographs of the teams that have been very, very successful here and won trophies and they&#8217;re held in such high regard. What I try and do is to tell the players &#8216;We want your names there, we want your pictures there&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve got their pictures up for the European achievements, for the top-six achievements, now we want them up [for winning the cup]. We want them to be remembered, we want them to be recognised everywhere they go for the rest of their life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">St Mirren defender Marcus Fraser:<\/b> &#8220;In 10, 20 years, people will probably still be talking about it [a win] and you can obviously write your own chapter in the club&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I think that&#8217;s one of the key aspects that we want to do, really grab the opportunity with two hands and if we can get up on that wall, then in a few years&#8217; time, when you walk by it, that would be a great feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy: <\/b>&#8220;Yes, I would like to win the trophy. I&#8217;m pretty sure that, if we don&#8217;t win it, it&#8217;s going to be difficult, because when we lose, this is painful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, again, I am optimistic as a person. So hopefully we&#8217;re going to do it. And also if it&#8217;s going to validate what we are doing. But, if not, I don&#8217;t want to think about this because, for the moment, I want to stay positive and this is the way I think.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to have many, many other times to show, to do my stuff and to convince the fans that I am the right guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic midfielder Luke McCowan: <\/b>&#8220;We&#8217;re disappointed as a team with the last two results and we need to get on top of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to [stick by Nancy], there&#8217;s no way around it. He&#8217;s the manager, he&#8217;s got his staff with him, we&#8217;re players at this club. He&#8217;s the one that&#8217;s going to lead us into victories with whatever style and whatever management the way he wants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once it clicks then we&#8217;re hopefully thinking that&#8217;s going to propel us into the performances we need and winning games most importantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Scottish #League #Cup #final #Defining #day #destiny #awaits #Mirren #Celtic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Mirren manager Stephen Robi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}