Celtic play host to Livingston in the last eight of the Scottish Cup on Sunday as Brendan Rodgers's men take on the West Lothian side for only the third time in the history of the competition.

The men in green and white have triumphed on the other two occasions when they have met on Scottish Cup duty - a 3-1 victory in the 2004 sem-final at Hampden and a 4-1 away victory in a last 16 tie back in 2007 - so the omens are looking good for Brendan Rodgers's side.

In the latest of his TCW archive series, Tony Haggerty digs out a classic five-goal thriller between both sides from 2001 as Martin O'Neill's team, not for the first time that season were bailed out by the talismanic Henrik Larsson.

Let's take the time machine back to Boxing Day 2001. Celtic are on their way to defending their title under Northern Irishman O'Neill. However, Celtic had suffered the setback of losing 2-0 to Aberdeen at Pittodrie the week before which was their first league loss of the season. Nobody could have anticipated the drama that was about to unfold as Jim Leishman's Lions came calling to Glasgow.

It was Super Swede Larsson who emerged as Celtic's hero once again to prevent his side's championship charge from stumbling for a second time in a week to preserve the champions' 100 per cent home record.

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The mercurial Lubomir Moravcik who opened the scoring after 11 minutes when he curled a trademark 25-yard free kick past Nick Culkin and into the top far corner of the net. Celtic were in total control but the hosts suffered a huge blow after 33 minutes when Sutton landed awkwardly on his ankle and O'Neill was forced to replace the Englishman with Welshman John Hartson.

Livingston levelled completely against the run of play four minutes later when Oscar Rubio rose to power home a header from Barry Wilson's free kick. Only a lunging professional foul by Belgian defender Joos Valgaeren, who was subsequently booked, prevented Wilson from breaking clear on the edge of the Celtic box moments later.

It was the King of Kings Larsson who restored Celtic's lead after 50 minutes when he pounced on a Paul Lambert ball to fire low past the Culkin. Amazingly Livingston restored parity eight minutes later when Wilson broke clear and, although Celtic goalkeeper Rab Douglas did well to parry the striker's initial effort Franciso 'Quino' Cabrera smashed the rebound home to make it 2-2. The visitors smelled blood and that sense was heightened when Celtic were reduced to 10 men after 79 minutes when Valgaeren was sent off for a second bookable offence.

It was Celtic who snatched all three points in injury time when Alan Thompson pounced on a dreadful defensive mistake by Phillippe Brinquin and crossed over for Larsson to tap home the winner in a pulsating contest. O'Neill praised his charges and said: "It was a commendable effort from the players."

Scottish Premier League

December 26, 2001

Celtic...3 (Moravcik 12, Larsson 50, 90)

Livingston 2 (Rubio 37, Quino 58) Att: 58,470

Teams:

Celtic: Douglas, Mjallby, Balde, Valgaeren, Petrov, Lennon, Lambert, Thompson, Moravcik (McNamara 90), Sutton (Hartson 35), Larsson.

Subs Not Used: Gould, Maloney, Crainey.

Livingston: Culkin, Brinquin, Rubio, Andrews, Santini, Anderson, Wilson (Aurellio 79), Quino (Hart 62), Bingham, Xausa (Lowndes 56), Tosh.

Subs Not Used: McEwan, Caputo.