'Comical' Celtic butt of brutal joke as pundits snigger at teammates marking EACH OTHER in Hearts video nasty

'Comical' defending from Celtic has become the butt of the Sportscene jokes after Liam Scales and Alistair Johnston did a great job marking EACH OTHER.

Brendan Rodgers' men fell to an emphatic 2-0 defeat at the hands of Hearts when Lawrence Shankland made it lucky number 13 for the season with a free header at the back post that took the Parkhead grumbles from a dull roar to a loud chastising. That was before another set piece from Stephen Kingsley piled on the agony with Steven Naismith's men ending a 16-year hoodoo in the Scottish Premiership at Celtic Park to sting the champions. And to add more pain to proceedings, pundits James McFadden and Neil McCann found the funny side of some hard-to-watch Hoops defending for the opener.

The footage appears to show defenders Scales and Johnston essentially marking each other from the corner before freeing up the Jambos talisman to score. That was enough for the former Scotland internationals to have a snigger at the defending, with Shankland hailed for his finish at the same time.

He told BBC Sportscene: "Lawrence Shankland peels away at the back, they try to fashion a block if you like but Scales and Johnston end up blocking each other. Having said that, it's an incredible finish but you see here Johnston is trying to get round to get to Shankland but he's actually fighting against Scales.

"When it comes to Shankland he sees the ball the whole way, he has a lot of time to think about it and with the power and direction he generates, it's an unbelievable header."

McCann added: "It's no surprise. He scored a cracking header against Rangers at Ibrox but that was harder because Joe Hart's on that side of the goal. He has to generate all the power from it but comical defending from