Kenny Miller believes it was intelligent play by Callum McGregor to tug again Ross Tierney and earn himself a pink card, however insists Ange Postecoglou’s “protecting defender” argument doesn’t maintain water.
The Celtic captain was given his marching orders late on within the Hoops’ 2-1 win over Motherwell that despatched them again to the highest of the Premiership desk. Objectives from Kyogo and Reo Hatate gathered both facet of Josip Juranovic’s personal objective had the hosts forward as the sport ticked in the direction of full-time.
A slack cross from Hatate put the factors in jeopardy although, and introduced Tierney with a transparent run on Joe Hart’s objective with the ‘keeper properly off his line. McGregor instinctively did what he needed to do and grabbed Tierney’s shirt, which resulted in a straight pink card. Motherwell didn't capitalise from the ensuing free-kick, and the champions noticed out the rest of the sport for a deserved victory.
Miller praised McGregor for sacrificing himself and making certain his workforce didn’t drop factors for the second successive league sport. Postecoglou admitted he didn’t have one of the best view of the incident on the time, however felt there could have been cowl and wasn't positive it was a pink card.
However former Rangers and Celtic striker Miller was adamant that Stephen Welsh was by no means going to catch Tierney, and had no arguments with the decision to dismiss McGregor.
“If he doesn’t, then it’s an easy chip over as a result of Joe Hart’s in no-man’s land,” he stated on Sportscene. “There's a protecting participant, however he’s not getting there. No manner.
“He [Tierney] may even take a contact in the direction of Joe Hart and Welsh was by no means, ever going to get there, It’s the suitable choice as a result of within the preliminary second, it’s denying a goalscoring alternative. Little doubt about it.
“It’s a intelligent one, as a result of had he gone via, he’s one-on-one with Joe Hart and might be lifting it excessive of him or going spherical him and making it 2-2. It will have been an fascinating previous couple of minutes had it been that and an opportunity that Celtic might have dropped extra factors.
“So it was a very, actually intelligent foul. He’s needed to take the punishment they usually’ll must do with out their captain for the subsequent sport. However he might doubtlessly have stopped them dropping factors there.”
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