Celtic can be 'proud' of Tynecastle performance

Cameron Carter-Vickers says Celtic are only focusing on things within their own control after a weekend of missed chances and refereeing controversy.

Brendan Rodgers' side went to Tynecastle on Sunday knowing that a win would take them back to the top of the Scottish Premiership after Rangers' loss to Motherwell.

But Adam Idah missed a first-half penalty, before Yang Hyun-Jun was sent off following an intervention by VAR, and from there, Hearts swept to a 2-0 win.

“It was obviously difficult (going down to 10 men),” Carter-Vickers said. “It was disappointing that we didn’t get the result that we wanted to.

“But, all in all, I think we can be proud of the performance that we gave. We created a lot of chances, even when we went down to 10 men.

“So, yeah, I think there are a lot of positives that we can take from it. Whether we won that game or not, what we have to do for the rest of the season is pretty clear. We will just focus on that.”

Carter-Vickers insists Celtic won't be hung up on individual decisions, and they just want to keep improving. With two games against Rangers to come, the American international says there is no panic.

“They could do, but we can’t let our focus go on to that,” he said. “We have just got to focus on our own performance.

“Even when we went down to 10 men, we created a good few chances. We probably would have liked to have stopped them from scoring a second. That is all we can focus on.

“As long as we keep improving and getting better we will be all right.

“We have just got to have faith that if we keep doing that then we will pick up the results that we want.

“We have also got to play each other twice. Clearly nothing is done yet. For us it is about focusing on ourselves and what we can control and trying to be the best versions of ourselves that we can.”