Luis Palma Celtic career not over as narrative branded 'extremely harsh'

Suggestions Luis Palma's Celtic career could be over after his Falkirk display have been labelled "extremely harsh."

Palma has had a poor start to this season as he struggles to hold down a place in the team and to convince when he does get a chance. That pattern continued against the Bairns in the Premier Sports Cup as the Hondouran winger and other fringe men were pitched in from the start.

The 24-year-old was one of the poorer performers as the Hoops trailed 2-1 deep into the second half and was hooked after 60 minutes. His performance has been under the microscope since and some have questioned whether he has signed his own death warrant in terms of his Parkhead career.

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But Bartley isn't having that. The former Hibs midfielder insists you can't write someone off on the basis of one bad game.

He told Clyde 1 Superscoreboard: "I think to say someone is done is extremely harsh. It is not very easy to come in and try to impact a game. One thing I would say, I think when you play for Celtic Football Club and you play Falkirk - regardless of how well they are doing - they are a Championship team. So when you do come into that team, you have to be better than Falkirk.

"I just felt that some of the players that came in struggled too much. You are in a situation now that you would be nervous putting three of four of them in, because their standards have to be higher outside of a few. But, no, you can't say somebody is done off the back of that."