Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nBut the award of that penalty was labelled \u201cdisgusting\u201d by Hearts boss Derek McInnes who claimed his side are \u201cup against everything\u201d in trying to end the stranglehold of Scottish football by the Glasgow giants.<\/p>\n
Celtic would have had to beat Hearts by three goals on the final day had they not found a winner.<\/p>\n
Replays appeared inconclusive as to whether the ball hit Motherwell\u2019s Sam Nicholson on the hand as he headed clear deep into stoppage time.<\/p>\n
McInnes was also furious Hearts were not awarded a penalty in their 1-1 draw at Motherwell on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving seen it again, it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d McInnes told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a penalty kick. We\u2019re up against it, we\u2019re up against everybody and well be ready for Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
McInnes added: \u201cIt\u2019s perfect in terms of drama for Scottish football, it\u2019s going to the last game. We\u2019re delighted we are part of it but we need to make sure we go and win the title now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou continued: \u201cI can\u2019t see any way in any world where that could be a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill. Robert Perry\/PA via APSource: AP<\/p>\n
At a raucous Tynecastle, Hearts were hoping for a historic night in Edinburgh. McInnes\u2019 men were at one point on course for the title as Celtic trailed at Fir Park.<\/p>\n
After a nervy start, two goals in five minutes kept the Hearts dream on track. Centre-back Frankie Kent crashed home a header before Cammy Devlin\u2019s deflected shot doubled the lead.<\/p>\n
Blair Spittal added a late third but all the drama was taking place in Motherwell.<\/p>\n
Celtic have ended a troubled season strongly with seven consecutive wins, but were chasing shadows early on and deservedly went behind to Elliot Watt\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n
Daizen Maeda\u2019s return to form has kept Celtic in the title race and the Japan international smashed in his seventh goal in five games to level before half-time.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Nygren\u2019s brilliant strike put the visitors in front before a late surge from Motherwell penned Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s men back.<\/p>\n
Liam Gordon swept home after a goalmouth scramble to put Hearts on the brink of glory.<\/p>\n
But deep into stoppage time a VAR review spotted a raised arm by Nicholson and referee John Beaton pointed to the spot.<\/p>\n
Former Manchester City forward Iheanacho took responsibility to coolly slot home and set up a thrilling finale to a dramatic season.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you need things to drop for you if you\u2019re going to win titles, especially with how far we\u2019ve come from since late December to still be in it, now with it all in your own hands,\u201d said Celtic captain Callum McGregor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe deserve to take it to the last day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third-placed Rangers suffered a fourth consecutive league defeat for the first time since 1983 as Hibernian won 2-1 at Ibrox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelechi Iheanacho\u2019s controversial 99th-minute penalty snatched a 3-2 win for Celtic at Motherwell on Wednesday and set up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-669288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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