In recent years, the Scottish Cup has been an important trophy for the Celtic FC Women’s squad.

As current holders and having won the competition over the past two season, this tournament has marked the progress of the Hoops as they continue to grow from strength to strength.

And Elena Sadiku will be hoping that the Scottish Cup can continue to have that effect on her squad as they gear up for this weekend’s quarter-final tie against Montrose.

In fact, this competition has already been part of a landmark moment for the Swedish Head Coach, having picked up her first win as Celtic boss against Hamilton Accies last month.

Following on from an extremely positive few weeks, which included a comprehensive victory over Partick Thistle last week, Sadiku is hopeful that the players can build upon performances like that.

Speaking to Celtic TV ahead of this weekend’s match, she is taking plenty of positives from the win over the Jags, and praised her entire squad for their part to play in the Ghirls’ recent progress

She said: “I think coming from that game, it give us a big confidence of what we can do because Partick Thistle are a good team.

“But we managed to dominate that game in every way. So I think it just shows what potential this group has, what we can do and achieve.

‘So it was a good boost to have going into this week.’

“Like I said after the game, it was also very pleasing that we scored from open play and that is something that we have been working a lot on.

“Of course, we are strong in set pieces and that something we are going to continue to have. But we want to be an attacking team that can score a lot of goals from open play.

“The reason why we are progressing as a team is because it’s not only about the starting 11 that are doing well, it comes from us doing very well in training too as a squad.

“It’s something that we just keep on building upon, and hopefully we are going to do that again on Sunday.”

Elena Sadiku: Everyone is very excited and ready for Scottish Cup quarter-final tie