The excitement of last Saturday’s Hampden date has barely subdued than the club are back at the National Stadium again this Saturday for yet another Scottish Cup semi-final, this time represented by Celtic FC Women.

If the Ghirls’ Saturday game against their Rangers counterparts is anywhere near as rousing as the men’s battle with Aberdeen last weekend, then the crowd are in for a treat – just as long as we have a similar outcome with the team in green and white going through to the May final.

This will be Elena Sadiku’s first trip to Hampden in charge of the Celts, and the Ghirls will be going all out to repeat their last game against the Ibrox side in Mount Florida when they came out on top last May to lift their second consecutive Scottish Cup.

A win this weekend would put the chance of a third successive Scottish Cup win on the immediate horizon as the women’s side, like their male colleagues, have their eyes set on a league and Scottish Cup double to round-off the run-in.

So, fresh from a 5-0 win over Hearts at the biggest venue in Scottish football, the Ghirls now turn their attention to a game at Scottish football’s second-biggest venue just a week later as they switch Celtic Park for Hampden, and speaking at the iconic venue today (Thursday), the Head Coach said: “This is obviously a big game for us.

‘It’s also in a very nice and beautiful big arena so we can take the confidence of being at Celtic Park. We love playing on grass, so it’s going to be a great feeling coming here on Saturday.’

“Overall, on the pitches that we’ve been playing on recently, we know we can perform good football, but obviously it’s always nice to play on grass.

“Because, for me at least, you always want to play on a good grass pitch

“I don’t know if it’s going to help but we get that confidence from playing on grass and in a big arena, so that’s something that we can take advantage of, or get that experience into this game.

“It’s not only about taking that experience, we have a big game. We know it’s about a title and that’s something everybody want to be involved in.”

Elena Sadiku looking forward to Hampden derby date