Brendan Rodgers has accused Scottish football of losing it’s common sense.
Next Saturday at Hampden Celtic face Hibs in the semi-final of the League Cup just 60 hours after taking on Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
With Saturday and Sunday available for the semi-finals Rodgers was expecting Celtic to get the Sunday slot but that has been handed to Motherwell and Sevco with the Ibrox club getting 10 days to prepare for their Hampden date.
“I’m very surprised,” the Celtic boss told The Sun about the match scheduling. “I assumed, which was maybe a mistake of mine, that common sense would come into it.
“That the team who were playing in a high level game in Germany on the Wednesday night would play on the Sunday instead of an early kick-off on a Saturday.
“I would assume it boils down to telly. They could have been kinder to us but we get on with it.
“I am sure Neil Lennon will be delighted because it can make a huge difference.”
Yesterday’s 1-0 win over Dundee kicked off a hectic spell of high profile matches for the hoops that involves Bayern Munich twice, Hibs, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock and St Johnstone.
Rodgers will have to utilise his squad to the maximum with Dorus de Vries and Cristian Gamboa starting their first matches of the season yesterday at home to Dundee.
Scott Brown and Stuart Armstrong are expected to be fit to face Bayern on Wednesday but there is still doubts over the fitness of Mikael Lustig and Jozo Simunovic.