{"id":515633,"date":"2026-03-05T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515633\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:55:09","slug":"aberdeen-explode-at-celtic-var-decision-as-peter-leven-rages-at-one-line-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515633\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen explode at Celtic VAR decision as Peter Leven rages at one line call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dons head coach was not happy with the SFA call as the champions secured a big win at Pittodrie<\/p>\n

22:50, 04 Mar 2026Updated 23:27, 04 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

Aberdeen 1 Celtic 2 – Best of the Scottish Premiership action<\/p>\n

Peter Leven has hit out at VAR as Celtic snatched a win at Aberdeen<\/a> to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n

The caretaker boss urged his players to focus on retaining their Scottish Cup<\/a> after their top six hopes were killed off by the champions.<\/p>\n

The Dons lost 2-1 at home to the Hoops, a result which condemns them to the bottom half.<\/p>\n

The cup holders now face Dunfermline in the quarter-finals at East End Park and are desperate to defending their trophy.<\/p>\n

But on the winning goal decision, he claimed: \u201cIt looks offside but why\u2019s there not two lines drawn?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was only one drawn. But listen, right now it\u2019s not going for us, these decisions in the game.<\/p>\n

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Nygren scored the winner<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers need to be a bit more streetwise. Lyall needs to ask the question late on when Hatate goes in. I thought the players worked really hard today. We started the second-half really well, but listen, it\u2019s just not going for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey worked really hard, but it\u2019s zero points which is frustrating because I thought they put in a good shift tonight. They are a quality team, Celtic<\/a>, but I\u2019m proud of the players tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interim boss said: \u201cIt\u2019s the next game, a huge game at the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to retain the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys will rest and recover and will go again in the later part of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benjamin Nygren netted the winner<\/a> and Leven questioned why VAR didn\u2019t draw a second line.<\/p>\n

Leven felt Lyall Cameron was too honest and never went down for a late penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Lyall was too honest and stayed in his feet,\u201d his manager added.<\/p>\n

\u201cShinnie had a hand in the back and could\u2019ve gone down. I think they need to be more streetwise. We need to start picking up points.<\/p>\n

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Sandro Schwarz is in the house <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought second-half we started really well and kept pressure on Celtic but we need to sustain that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you saw tonight the quality we have. We just need a longer period of time in games to control the game and create more chances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aberdeen managerial candidate Sandro Schwarz was in the stands.<\/p>\n

Leven added: \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dons head coach was not happy with the SFA call as the champions secured a big win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[195071,20037,49,48,13881,128999,9328,561,82,109874,175251],"class_list":{"0":"post-515633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-aberdeen-fc","9":"tag-benjamin-nygren","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-celtic-fc","13":"tag-scottish-football-association","14":"tag-scottish-premiership","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-var","18":"tag-william-hill-scottish-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}