Rodgers passes judgement on Ntcham red card

Celtic played out a 0-0 draw with St Mirren in Paisley on Friday night, and they were not helped in their endeavours after a 37th minute red card for midfielder Olivier Ntcham.

Ntcham received a second yellow card for a challenge when chasing play back, and was given duly given his marching orders.

Playing with ten, Celtic were unable to find a way through the St Mirren defences.

Regarding the second yellow given to Ntcham, Brendan Rodgers admitted he was less than pleased with the decision.

Speaking to BBC Sport, the manager said:

Olivier had tracked back and conceded a free-kick just before, so I don’t know if that was in the referee’s mind,

I think he is going across to slide in and block it, so when the guy goes down it looks like a tackle. But if you look at it again, there is barely any contact. So to get another card for that was disappointing.

I don’t like to go on too much [about officials]. It is a difficult game for them to manage. There were quite a few incidents tonight where their view of the game was quite different from most.