'The Story Of' is a web series dedicated to small but special tales from Celtic’s illustrious history. Here, Christopher Jullien remembers the goal that won the 2019 League Cup final.

DURING their historic Invincibles campaign, Celtic played Rangers twice at Hampden – once in a very one-sided 1-0 League Cup semi-final win in October 2016, and once again in an even less contentious 2-0 Scottish Cup semi victory in April the following year.

When the sides met again at Hampden the following season, the Hoops triumphed 4-0, again in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup. And thus, prior form at the National Stadium favoured Neil Lennon’s men ahead of the League Cup final on December 8, 2019.

On the day, we saw a less familiar side to Celtic’s game. Their opponents dug in, passed and pressed well, and called an on-form Fraser Forster into action on several occasions over the course of 90 minutes - in open play and with a penalty stop from Alfredo Morelos.

By full-time, however, centre-back Christopher Jullien’s 60th minute strike was all that separated the sides, as the champions retained the trophy for a fourth consecutive year.

“At the end of the day, what you remember are winners,” said Jullien on the official Celtic View podcast, in association with Eden Mill. “In years to come, you won’t remember the game, you’ll just remember the trophy. The game, that time, Rangers were better than us. We didn’t play well, but we had Fraser Forster who was on top of his game. We had a chance to score and we took it. We did a really good job.”

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