Carter-Vickers admits Celtic VAR controversy could come with title cost as he makes penalty confession
Referee Don Robertson did not need to go to the monitor and overturn decisions in the heated Tynecastle match, according to the Hoops legend. Cameron Carter-Vickers believes the referees were distracted by the significant VAR calls at Tynecastle.The Celtics defender, though, is adamant that the Hoops team won’t follow suit in the championship game. The questionable red card given to Yang and the Hearts penalty call infuriated Carter-Vickers as the champions missed their opportunity to take the top spot in the Premiership back on Sunday.Four days later, Celtic’s hopes of taking advantage of Rangers’ error against Motherwell were ruined by referee Don Robertson and video assistant referee John Beaton, according to Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers. Carter-Vickers acknowledged that such calls may cost teams leagues when asked if they could.But that cannot be the centre of our attention.All we need to do is concentrate on our own performance. We’ll be fine as long as we keep becoming better and improving. It was clearly challenging. The fact that we weren’t able to achieve the desired outcome was frustrating. Overall though, I believe we should be pleased with the performance we put up.Even when we were down to 10 men, we still created a lot of opportunities. Thus, yes, I believe there are many advantages that we may draw from it. It’s quite obvious what we need to do for the remainder of the season, win or lose. We’ll simply concentrate on it.While attempting to contain his annoyance, Carter-Vickers acknowledged he didn’t see why VAR needed to be engaged at Tynecastle. Yang was scheduled for a high boot, but before being upgraded to a red, he was called over to the monitor.With Tomoki Iwata’s back to the ball as it was heading down off his arm, the handball call against him appeared even more contentious. Carter -Vickers is in favour of the referee using his own discretion as opposed to using a microscope on the touchline. GET MORE RELATED CONTENT ON SPORTWORDS.CO.UK […]