Celtic vs Hearts
Scottish Premiership
Celtic Park
Celtic vs Hearts: Match report
Full time score: Celtic 2-0 Hearts
Goals: K Furuhashi (13′), G Giakoumakis (90+4′)
Sending off: A Cochrane (89’), T Sibbick (90+1′)
Player ratings
Celtic: Hart (7), Juranovic (8), Jenz (7), Carter-Vickers (7), Taylor (8), McGregor (7), O’Riley (7), Turnbull (6), Jota (8), Maeda (7), Kyogo (8).
Subs: Giakoumakis (7), Abada (6), Mooy (6), Hatate (6)
Hearts: Stewart (7), Haring (6), Boyce (6), Mackay-Steven (6), Atkinson (6), Rowles (6), Halliday (6), Forrest (6), Cochrane (4), Sibbick (4), Ginnelly (6)
Subs: M. Smith (6), Shankland (6), McKay (6), Neilson (6), C. Smith (6)
Man of the match: Greg Taylor
Post match reaction
Hearts boss Robbie Neilson: “I’m obviously disappointed with the outcome of the game but I thought for large periods of the game we played well. Until the referee sends two of our players off, we’re still in the game and we’re in a good position.
“Once that happens, that makes it very difficult. You hope that an experienced referee would recognise the situation. The first one, there’s no need for a second yellow card. Sometimes when a crowd roars, you can jump on it and that’s potentially what happened today.”
Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou: “It was a game where there was no real flow to it. It was very stop-start, hard to get real tempo into it. Some of it was our own doing.
“Through that, we still maintained control of the game and even though it was 1-0 for a long time, I never felt threatened. Joe [Hart] never had a save of significance to make, and at the other end their keeper pulled off two or three good games to keep them in the game.”
