Jamie Gullan lit up Easter Road with two goals and an eye-catching display as Hibernian overcame East Kilbride in the third round of the Scottish Youth Cup.

Gullan’s goals either side of half-time, the first a well-struck free kick and the second an instinctive finish, were enough to secure victory over a resilient East Kilbride side, who replied through Jay McInally in first-half stoppage time.

“It was just about the result today,” said Gullan afterwards. “We didn’t play our best but we got what we wanted so we’re all happy.

“They were difficult to break down and were right in our faces from the start. We just had to keep passing the ball to find space. In the end two goals were enough.”

From the start, it was clear that the 18-year-old was Hibs’ biggest threat. His speed on the ball allowed him to beat his full-back every time, and drive forward into the space.

The visitors were surely aware of the danger, but there wasn’t much they could do about it. In the 26th minute Gullan again turned at halfway and ran at the East Kilbride defenders, who hauled him down on the edge of the box. Undeterred, Gullan picked himself up and curled a sublime shot up, over the wall, and into the far corner.

“I practice free-kicks in training,” Gullan said. “I want to step up and take them and I fancied my chances.”

East Kilbride continued to sit in, and were fortunate not fall further behind just before the break. From a corner, goalkeeper Kieran Bell was forced into making a save on the line. His palmed effort only went as far as Hibs striker Ruairi Paton, who, from under the bar, couldn’t keep his header down.

Hibs were perhaps a little too comfortable, and the equaliser came from a complete lapse in concentration. Defender Josh Campbell was under no pressure at all, but his back-pass to keeper Maciej Dabrowski was woefully under-hit. East Kilbride forward Gavin Millar burst onto the loose ball but was smothered by Dabrowski. Instead, it broke to McInally, who poked the ball over the line from the edge of the box.

Celtic ultimately came up short against a ruthless Bayern Munich side in the UEFA Youth League on Wednesday night.

Mikey Johnston impressed the Bayern fans who turned up to watch their youngsters with his directness and ability to reach the by-line consistently. However, Munich proved to have the all-round better quality in the final third.

Goals from Johnston and Ewan Henderson wasn’t enough to halt Bayern, with a Manuel Weintzheimer brace adding to goals from Frank Evina, Felix Gotze, Marin Pudic, and an own goal from Robbie Deas.

Celtic started confidently and looked threatening down the left-hand side. Henderson and Johnston were combining effectively, and a couple of cut-backs in the box failed to be controlled by Aitchison.

The bright start followed by some Munich pressure. The Bavarians looked threatening whenever Batista Meier or Meritan Shabani got on the ball. Some early openings for both Pudic and Shabani were easily gathered by Ryan Mullen.

The young Hoops weren’t afraid to play out from the back, showing a composure in defence when playing out that is symbolic of the way Brendan Rodgers has his senior side playing.

Yet Bayern showed their ruthless streak midway through the first-half, with Celtic not covering themselves in glory at the back.

Firstly, the powerful Evina picked the ball up on the right, cut inside, and saw his effort spin off the unfortunate Calvin Miller and into the far corner.

The lead was doubled when a deep free-kick from Shabani found Gotze, and despite having chances to clear their lines, the Hoops defence allowed Gotze time to slot it past Mullen.

Meier and Wintzheimer both came close with efforts in the box, but when it looked as though Celtic would finish the half strongly through Johnston’s directness – Bayern extended their lead.

A long diagonal ball to Meier was brilliantly controlled – taking it past Duffy with his first touch. He slid it past Mullen before the back-tracking Daes could only knock it into his own net when trying to clear.

Maryhill Juniors clinched a place in the third round of the Scottish Cup after coming from behind to beat Cambuslang Football Academy at Lochburn Park.

Both sides received byes into the second round of this competition and aimed to reach the third round on the journey to the final in Airdrie. Despite the prize on offer, neither side could force a goal in the opening forty-five minutes.

Four goals in the second half were enough to send Notre Dame SA into the third round of the Scottish Cup at the expense of their Glasgow and District Youth Football League Division 2 rivals Broomhill SC.

The game was the second time the two sides have met this season with their previous match in the league ending a 9-1 away win to Notre Dame SA. This confidence showed at the beginning of the match with Notre Dame dominating the early exchanges at a wet Coatbridge Sports Center. 

Their domination soon paid off when they created the first chance of the game, in the 2nd minute,  Jude Carroll had the ball fizzed into him at the edge of the box but his shot was well saved by Arron Purba to keep the scores level. Two minutes later another chance came to Notre Dame this time Shay McKenna got in behind the Broomhill defence but his shot rattled off the crossbar and was eventually cleared.

The Broomhill defence held their line after this and either caught the Notre Dame attack offside or Purba was always quick off his line to clear and play the “sweeper keeper” role. This resulted in the Notre Dame attackers being forced to shoot from distance. A tactic which nearly worked when, in the 10th minute, Joshua Harvie found Ross Condy on the edge of the box but the ever reliable Purba was more than equal to the effort.

It took until the 16th minute from Broomhill to get their first chance of the match when tricky winger Charlie Lawson burst through on goal and rounded Nathan Dawson but his shot was cleared in the box by a back-tracking Notre Dame defender.

A minute later saw arguably the best chance of the half with Carroll rounding Purba and finding Jamie Mulvaney in the box but his shot was cleared off the line. The rest of the half saw each defence cancelling out the other team’s attackers and the first half ended goalless.