Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou has revealed he told his players to pull out of challenges against Alloa as he feared "reckless" challenges could injure more of his stars.
A serious facial injury saw captain Callum McGregor taken off, with no timescale on his return to action.
Liel Abada also suffered an injury while Record Sport exclusively revealed Mouhamed Niang has been retrospectively rapped for his wild challenge that saw Yosuke Ideguchi limp off.
And the Celtic boss confessed that he was so worried there would be further casualties he told his players not to go in for tackles.
Postecoglou said: "Since I started managing 25 years ago, there has always been little tweaks in the rules but one consistent theme is they always show us tackles that are deemed to be dangerous or reckless and they will always get punished because it is a big part of the protection of players.
"This year was no different and if you show footage of that tackle, it was exactly the vision we get shown, to know that is going to be handled by the referee.
"I will be honest, I told some of the lads towards the end of the game to just not to bother going into tackles and just look after themselves because I didn't want any more injuries.
"I just didn't feel there was control of that environment.
"Sometimes players are just reckless but that doesn't mean it is excusable.
"We had a player who had a serious injury, there's a couple of others who were lucky to escape from that and that is why I was disappointed with the way the night panned out."
