Jarosik: Hoops hard done by

12 April 2012

Midfielder Jiri Jarosik has placed the blame for Celtic's Champions League exit on Austrian referee Konrad Plautz.

The Bank of Scotland Premier League champions went down 1-0 in extra-time to AC Milan at the San Siro on Wednesday night in their last-16 clash.

According to the Czech midfielder, Plautz failed to see Milan captain Paolo Maldini controlling the ball with his hand inside his own area, while he waved to play on after Massimo Ambrosini had pushed Shunsuke Nakamura inside the area. "I realise that Milan had many goalscoring chances," said Jarosik. "But we have to look at the penalty incidents and feel that we were hard done by."

Having held the Rossoneri to a goalless draw in normal time over two legs, Gordon Strachan's side conceded a Kaka goal to end their European adventure.

Milan did have plenty of clear-cut chances to break the deadlock in normal time but were denied by a great goalkeeping display from Artur Boruc.

Jarosik believes that if the referee had done his job properly, the outcome would have been different.

"I felt we should have had a penalty with the Maldini handball and there was the Nakamura incident," added Jarosik.

"The linesman should have helped the referee on the handball decision but he was an arrogant man, he didn't speak to us and he looked as if he wanted to help AC Milan more."

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