“Astonished” Tony Docherty has expressed regret to the Dundee supporters who traveled far to witness their team concede seven goals at Parkhead.
Celtic easily defeated the poor Dark Blues, winning 7-1 and scoring six goals in the first half.
Before the half, Callum McGregor, Greg Taylor, Daizen Maeda, Matt O’Riley, Adam Idah, and Cameron Carter-Vickers all scored goals.
With thirteen minutes remaining, Fin Robertson was given a second yellow card, and young Danny Kelly added a seventh.
But there was still time for Michael Mellon to grab a late consolation for the 10-man Dee.
The Dark Blues will accept responsibility for their performance at Parkhead, according to manager Docherty.
He declared, “There is no defense for the caliber of defense that led to the goals early in the game.”
“A certain amount of accountability is required for that. However, I’ve never seen it in the group before, so I’m honestly a little taken aback by the caliber of the goal we gave up.
“We need to take real ownership and responsibility for that.
“Not defending crosses, not defending our box properly, getting done with cut-backs and it’s not something I’ve seen before.
Asked what went wrong, Docherty replied: “Tonight I picked an experienced team, we put it down to poor decision making.
But I need to defend these players because they have been brilliant for me this season.
“There has to be a bit of reality with us being the newly-promoted team.
“That’s not taking away the responsibility from myself or the players.
“I would like to apologise to the support because I’ve not seen that level of defending from us before.
“We still have a long way to go, I’m disappointed with our performances against the Old Firm this season but these games won’t define our season.
“What will is the games against teams around us and we have a game on Saturday with Kilmarnock coming to Dens Park.
“It’s important as a group we are honest, take ownership, but move on from it.
“Hopefully it’s a one-off, we caught Celtic on a really good night and we had a really bad night.
