An angry Brendan Rodgers described the officials in Celtic’s 2-0 defeat to Hearts as “really, really poor” as he hit out at “absolutely shocking decision-making
It was an incident-packed first half at Tynecastle Park which started with Celtic being awarded a penalty after Alex Cochrane’s barge on Hyun-Jun Yang.
Minutes after Adam Idah’s spot kick was saved, Yang was shown a red card following a VAR check for a high boot on Cochrane.
That decision left Rodgers fuming with the Celtic boss then adding it was “absolutely shocking” that Hearts were awarded a penalty for Tomoki Iwata’s handball after referee Don Robertson went for a second look at the monitor.
“I never like to comment on officials but that cost us today. The officiating from on-field to John Beaton being on VAR, was really poor.
“I look at the first incident [red card] and if you put a still on that it looks dangerous, but that’s not the reality of the move.
“There’s no force there, the ball’s popped up. It’s a booking. That’s really disappointing to go down to 10 men for that but to receive a penalty against us – wow, that was even worse.