BRENDAN RODGERS last night revealed Celtic have raised Saturday’s disallowed Easter Road goal with the SFA.
Hoops chiefs have contacted referees’ boss Willie Collum after Daizen Maeda’s strike was controversially ruled out because the ball was judged to have gone out of play in the build-up.
Ref Steven McLean and his linesman awarded the goal, before VAR Alan Muir intervened and insisted it be ruled out.
Rodgers insisted Muir had GUESSED for the decision as there was no way of knowing conclusively whether the ball had gone out before Alastair Johnston crossed it.
He said: “The club go through the process. We don’t make statements, we just go through the procedure, which is that the club speaks to the SFA and get a feeling of what they think.
“We haven’t had anything back yet. Having watched it and seen the various images, my feeling is still the same.
“There are a couple of images you see where the illusion is that it’s out, there’s others that will look like it’s clearly in.
“I’ve seen one image right on the actual goalline, which was an incredible shot and that looked in, so it’s more the process really.
“I was disappointed for the guys in the game, Steven McLean and the linesman, because they actually got it correct in the game.
“I didn’t feel that they should have been overruled on that without a definitive answer, which is what I said at the time.”
Rodgers reckons Scottish football woud benefit from goal-line technology. That would not necessarily have made the Easter Road incident a black-and-white call as that only covers incidents between the posts.
But it would have ensured a camera was set up on the goal-line and helped ensure a better judgment.
Rodgers added: “It’s all about what you can afford within the league. There may be other priorities. If it’s something the game can afford to do, you would have scenarios but you would also have the clarity you would get with goal-line technology.”
Rodgers conceded the flashpoint came after what had been a disappointing first-half showing by his side.
He said: “I still feel we should have had something from the game, especially second half.
“In the first half we didn’t make a good start, which is something you always want to do.
“But I didn’t overthink it as the players have been fantastic for me.
“The consistency and level we’ve shown over many months has been at a really high level.
“After a disappointing first half, we had a great reaction and should have had an equaliser, which could have given us momentum to go on and win the game.
“But it didn’t happen and we move on.
“We obviously need to bounce back from the weekend, but the game showed that if you’re not quite on it, then teams can hurt you.
“It’s also a great measure of how focused and professional the team have been, because we’ve had very few slip-ups over the season.”
Celtic face Aberdeen, with Jimmy Thelin’s side the only visiting team to have scored at Celtic Park in the league.
Rodgers added: “Celtic v Aberdeen are always good games.”
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