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Unseen Elie Youan moment enrages Marvin Bartley as 'embarrassing' Hibs ace slated

Elie Youan does keepie-uppies
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Marvin Bartley couldn't believe what he was witnessing from Elie Youan just moments after Hibs were reduced to ten-men at Dens Park.

The crisis-hit Hibees crashed to an embarrassing 4-1 defeat as Dundee fought back to heap more misery on under-pressure David Gray. Nicky Cadden put the visitors in front inside just two minutes before Jordan Obita threw his teammates under the bus by picking up a straight red card for a studs-up tackle on Mo Sylla.

The Dees them stormed to a 3-1 lead before the break as Hibs hit self-destruct mode before a calamitous mistake by Rocky Bushiri capped off a miserable night in Tayside, with Curtis Main adding a fourth. It's an extremely damaging defeat for Gray, who was handed a dreaded vote of confidence by club chiefs during the international break.

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His flops remain rock bottom of the league with just one victory from 13 and while every player is under the spotlight, Frenchman Youan provoked the rage of ex-midfielder Bartley. The former St. Gallen winger was spotted doing keepie-uppies as Dees star Sylla received medical treatment on the pitch following red card sinner Obita's crunching challenge.

Youan's showboating struck a nerve with Bartley who insisted the 25-year-old should have been laser-focused on ensuring Hibs were prepared to compete with a man down.

He told Premier Sports: "It's embarrassing. It sums it up at the moment that he's been allowed to get away with this. Not only is he doing it, he's got players looking at him and allowing him to do it. So either he does what he wants and he doesn't listen anyway, OR, the players don't care. I don't know which one of the two it is.

"But that is not acceptable. You've just had a player sent off. Get across to your manager, find out what you're going to do for the next 10 or 15 minutes to see this game out until half-time or whatever else it might be. But doing that... that just sums up the players."