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‘He’s lucky’… John Collins says Hibs should have had a red card against Celtic last night
Out of all the decisions made in Celtic’s 2-1 over Hibs last night, I am surprised that this one has not been highlighted more.
With the chat surrounding Celtic’s penalties grabbing the headlines, John Collins believes that there is one other decision that should have been made in last night’s win over Hibs.
The former Celtic and Easter Road hero said that Hibs midfielder, Lewis Miller, should have seen red after his first-half challenge on Callum McGregor.
Collins said [], “He’s lucky Callum McGregor’s one of those players, he doesn’t dive about or roll about.
“He’s got respect for the opposition.
“You don’t go to ground like that these days. It’s dangerous.”
At first glance, I thought that challenge was reckless. McGregor wins the ball and Miller continues his follow through and catches the Celtic captain high on the shins.
If it wasn’t looked at by VAR then the young midfielder can count himself lucky because he could have walked for endangering an opponent.
Thankfully though, McGregor wasn’t harmed and Celtic picked up all three points. However, concerns are still ongoing about the injuries to Stephen Welsh and Alistair Johnston.
The Celtic duo were taken off after Johnston suffered a clash of heads and Welsh was replaced by Nawrocki after pulling up with a hamstring issue.
Celtic now look at facing St Mirren on Saturday without three of their starting back four.
Cameron Carter-Vickers and Greg Taylor were already out of the upcoming Scottish Cup clash and it looks like Rodgers could be without his Canadian fullback after pictures emerged of the 24-year-old being kept in hospital overnight.
Hopefully, the injury to the Celtic duo is not serious and on both counts the measures taken to protect them were just precautionary because if Rodgers wants to successfully defend the cup on Saturday, he is going to need both of them available.
In other news, ‘It doesn’t matter’… BBC commentator takes issue with Pat Bonner’s surprising take on Celtic penalty award