The Scottish Football Association’s Key Match Incident panel has decided that Auston Trusty should have been sent off in Celtic’s League Cup semi-final victory over Rangers.

The defender was booked for a foul on Jack Butland after he caught the goalkeeper with a trailing foot at the end of the first half.

Celtic would go on to win the game 3-1 after extra time with goals from Johnny Kenny, Callum McGregor, and Callum Osmand, and they will now play St Mirren in next month’s final.

However, two of the three-person KMI panel say the referee was wrong not to show him a red card and the VAR team also made a mistake in not flagging the incident for an on-field review.

Rangers had earlier been reduced to ten men when Thelo Aasgaard was sent off for a waist high challenge on Anthony Ralston, a

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