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30th Apr 2016

VIDEO: Bafflingly bad defending from Hearts gifts Celtic’s Patrick Roberts utterly avoidable goal

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Darragh Murphy

What on Earth did Alim Ozturk have for breakfast?

The Hearts defender, who was only voted into PFA Scotland Premiership Team of the Year days earlier, had an absolute nightmare just minutes after his side had drawn level with table-topping Celtic at Tynecastle.

With the ball dropping and no danger whatsoever around him, Ozturk squinted into the Edinburgh sun and bizarrely booted the ball directly into the air.

The Turkish centre-half then failed to connect properly with his second attempted clearance which travelled a total of seven yards to teammate Perry Kitchen who took over the responsibility of conceding as quickly as possible by softly heading the ball into danger.

John Souttar then completely came up short in a sliding tackle that meant young Patrick Roberts had all the time and space in the world to jog into the Hearts box and calmly slot the ball between the ‘keeper’s legs.

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