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Ross Pilcher

Celtic's Odsonne Edouard slammed for 'disrespectful' panenka that prompted furious Craig Gordon reaction

Neil McCann was not impressed with Odsonne Edouard’s panenka penalty in the Scottish Cup final.

The Celtic striker cheekily dinked his spot-kick into the net to put his side 2-0 up against Hearts after Christophe Berra had handled.

That prompted a furious reaction from Craig Gordon, who threw the ball at Edouard as he ran off to celebrate and was booked by referee John Beaton.

The Jambos recovered after the break to make it 2-2 as Edouard looked much less comfortable than he did when showboating from the spot.

He was replaced by Leigh Griffiths, who netted Celtic’s third before Josh Ginnelly made it 3-3 to force penalties.

There were no panenkas with the pressure really on as Gordon saved from Ryan Christie before Conor Hazard denied Stephen Kingsley and Craig Wighton and allowed Kris Ajer to seal the quadruple treble.

McCann wasn’t having Edouard’s ‘selfish’ way of scoring past his former teammate from 12 yards, and said he could see why Gordon reacted the way he did.

"I can understand (Craig Gordon's reaction). I think that's pretty disrespectful.

"It's come off for him and it looks brilliant. It's just selfish. I didn't like it. It's not because Celtic have gone two-nil up - that's his (former) team-mate and that's why Craig's reacted like that.

"That was a little bit cheeky."

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