‘WE WEREN’T GOOD ENOUGH,’ NO EXCUSES FROM CCV WHO QUERIES REFEREE CALL

‘WE WEREN’T GOOD ENOUGH,’ NO EXCUSES FROM CCV WHO QUERIES REFEREE CALL

A crucial incident involving CAMERON CARTER-VICKERS sent Celtic into

their first league loss at Parkhead,

capping an incredible 51-game run.

Referee Kevin Clancy gave the burly center-back a penalty kick for challenging Nat Atkinson,

which resulted in Hearts being handed a direct free-kick in a hazardous area.

CQN questioned the ruling yesterday.

After some careless defence, Lawrence Shankland’s close-range header gave the visitors an early 1-0 lead.

Stephen Kingsley doubled the Tynecastle team’s lead with a left-foot drive that eluded Joe Hart’s grasp.

The champions lost their second straight Premiership match for

the first time in ten years on an afternoon to forget in Glasgow’s east end,

failing to recover from their shockingly poor performance at Rugby Park the week before.

After considering the most recent failure, Carter-Vickers declared,

“We weren’t good enough,” without providing an explanation need to focus on

improving on our two careless goals that we gave up during training.

“We ought to have made more and taken advantage of the opportunities we did have to try to tie the score.

In the end, it was insufficient.

We did have them in their half, around their box, for a significant portion of the second half.

However, once more, there were careless moments that destroyed our momentum during the first half.

We weren’t skilled enough in the last third to generate obvious

opportunities for goals even when we did manage to get in and around the area.

Once more, that’s something we should consider and work to do better at.

The USA World Cup centre back reiterated to the Daily Record that

he didn’t think the set-play award went to Steven Naismith’s team, saying,

“I didn’t think it was a free-kick.”

As soon as I put my foot down on the ground, Atkinson began to slip.

He sort of skipped into my planted leg, and the referee awarded me a free kick.

“We probably didn’t do enough over the 90 minutes to

deserve to win the game,” Carter-Vickers continued.

We must examine it and work to make improvements.

We must examine what went wrong and determine how,

both individually and as a team, we can get better.

Performances will improve if we do that.

“Losing a game clearly raises your emotions.

However, as a team, we must now put in a lot of effort on

the training pitch and strive to start putting on stronger performances.

“As a team, we try to concentrate on the fact that the next game is the most important one,

win, lose, or draw. Every football match is unique.

Next up for Brendan Rodgers’ faltering team on Saturday is Livingston,

who desperately need a quick fix to settle down before their

Boxing Day trip to Dens Park to take on Dundee.

The second derby of the season, held at Parkhead on 30 December,

provides Rodgers and his team with the ideal chance to

quell the city’s irrational optimism by repeating their triumph in Govan in September,

when Kyogo Furuhashi had the final say.

This derby will bring an exciting 2023 to an end.

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