The four stars who won first trophy as Celtic stars in pulsating Rangers cup final clash

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Celtic are a winning machine under Brendan Rodgers.

The squad, boasting the likes of Callum McGregor, Greg Taylor, Cameron Carter-Vickers and a whole host of others, have lifted a number of trophies.

In fact, the Hoops recently overtook Rangers in trophies won, after they hoisted the Premier Sports Cup over their heads following a 5-4 penalty shootout victory from a 3-3 draw in 120 minutes.

But even though Rodgers was victorious for the 10th time over two stints as boss at Parkhead, there were four stars in his squad yesterday at Hampden who had never won with Celtic before.

And each of them played their part in the victory over their rivals.

Kasper Schmeichel had a phenomenal game between the sticks despite conceding three goals as the Dane could do little about any of them during the game.

He also made a stop from Ridvan Yilmaz in the shootout which would ultimately prove to be the difference as Daizen Maeda netted later.

What the experienced campaigner could not prevent was rival goalie Jack Butland scoring in the shootout and he credited the Englishman’s handling of the pressure.

Arne Engels, Kasper Schmeichel, Alex Valle and Auston Trusty won their first Celtic trophies

Auston Trusty started at centre-half alongside CCV and the American had a decent 45 minutes before Rodgers swapped him tactically at the break.

Arne Engels made an impact for the club off the bench in the second-half when he teed up what everyone inside Hampden might have thought was the winner from Nicolas Kuhn with three minutes or so to go.

That wasn’t quite to be when Danilo scored less than 30 seconds later.

Celtic overtake Rangers in terms of overall trophies won at 119

But Celts still prevailed and Engels played a further part with a penalty during the shootout.

And that was also, in part, thanks to left-back loanee Alex Valle who replaced goal sinner turned goal scorer, Greg Taylor, to help secure the win as he offered a direct attacking option.

It may have been their first trophies with Celtic, but some have have lifted silver at other clubs.