Michael Stewart has criticised the way Celtic defended against St Mirren during their 2-0 defeat in Paisley.

Ange Postecoglou's side put in a lacklustre performance which saw them lose their first league game in almost a year.

The former Hibs and Hearts midfielder has claimed Hoops centre-backs Mortiz Jenz and Stephen Welsh got 'bullied' by The Buddies attackers during the match.

Doing his punditry on BBC, as part of the Sportscene programme, he also admitted that with VAR in place, the home side's second goal may have been chopped off.

However, he was keen to stress that this in no way took away from Jim Goodwin's team being deserving of the three points.

He said: "Technically I think it is offside. There's a bit of pushing and shoving from both players, Stephen Welsh has got a good firm hold of Ayunga's jersey, and he probably does shove him a little bit.

"It's weak (from Welsh), though, and I think this goal is indicative of the performance as a whole.

"You see Curtis Main's desire, he gets above and bullies Jenz, and it's the same at the back post.

"You can see with the line that Ayunga's offside, but it's very tight for the linesman to be able to see that definitively.

"If it was VAR, yes, it probably would be chopped off.

"But I think that moment there in the six-yard box was pretty indicative of what happened most of the afternoon.

"Ayunga and Main up top caused chaos against Jenz and Welsh, they were never really able to handle the physicality of them."