Steven Gerrard makes VAR statement after offside goal hands Celtic Scottish League Cup win
Celtic beat Rangers to win the Scottish League Cup courtesy of a goal from Christopher Jullien, but replays appeared to show he was in an offside position.
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Steven Gerrard has bemoaned the fact the Scottish football hasn’t yet introduced VAR after seeing Rangers lose to Celtic in the Scottish League Cup final in controversial circumstances. Rangers had dominated the final for the majority of the match with Fraser Forster pulling off a number of stunning saves to keep the Light Blues at bay.
It looked almost inevitable Rangers would eventually find the breakthrough as Celtic struggled to get out of their own half, but the game was turned on its head at the hour mark.
Odsonne Edouard came on and immediately won Celtic a free-kick down the left flank, with Ryan Christie delivering a teasing cross into the box where Christopher Jullien was on hand to tap in with their first shot of the game.
Celtic fans were in pandemonium as they celebrated in the stands while Rangers players could be seen looking shell-shocked that they found themselves 1-0 down despite being in control of the match previously.
But replays appeared to clearly show Jullien - along with two other Celtic players - were in an offside position at the point Christie took his free-kick.
Steven Gerrard was frustrated with the officials for missing the offside call (Image: GETTY)
Christopher Jullien looked in an offside position for the winning goal (Image: GETTY)
Rangers did have a great opportunity to level the match just minutes later when Alfredo Morelos was brought down in the box by Jeremie Frimpong, with the Celtic star being shown a red card for the challenge.
Morelos stepped up to take the resulting spot-kick, but Forster guessed correctly to save the Rangers forward’s effort and further frustrate Gerrard’s side.
Celtic eventually held on as Rangers ran out of steam but, while Gerrard was proud of his team’s overall performance, he was clearly frustrated over the nature of Celtic’s winning goal.
“Slightly is offside isn’t it,” he told BT Sport.
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