Thumbs down

on the other side you can say he’s the last defender and there is slight contact, so the referee had a decision to make.

“Unfortunately he didn’t make the decision 15 minutes before with the stamp on one of our players, Sam Woods. If he showed a red card it could have been a different outcome.”

Beuzelin added: “There is disappointment, because we took zero points again, but there were a lot of positives.

“We worked as a unit, we defended as a unit, we managed to score, so there were positives.

“We came up against a good team. At the end, the cuteness from the Celtic strikers makes the difference, but we need to concentrate, and the effort is very consuming and demanding, so the tiredness maybe had an effect a little bit for us at the end, unfortunately.”

Beuzelin was in charge for the first of five games that boss Brian Rice is banned for, as a result of his breach of betting regulations, but said it was easy enough to carry out instructions.

Hamilton told referee Nick Walsh that Rice would be communicating with the bench via messages, so all was above board.

He said: “We thought it would have been difficult, but we were OK because there was communication.

“The message was coming through no problem, so on that aspect we were fine.”

Ogkmpoe scored his third goal of the season – and second against Celtic – in 26 minutes when he bulleted a header in at the near post from Alston’s corner.

Edouard levelled in 34 minutes, and Jullien score the killer second in 78 minutes with a neat side-foot volley.

Sub Tom Rogic then set up Edouard for his second goal in 81 minutes, and Forrest completed the scoring with a powerful shot into the right corner which left keeper Luke Southwood stranded.