Malik Tillman has slated Partick Thistle’s players for their reaction to his controversial goal during Sunday’s Scottish Cup match at Ibrox. 

The Bayern Munich loanee scored after a misunderstanding on the pitch, which should have seen Jags captain Kevin Holt return possession to the hosts. 

As the defender prepared to launch the ball back, Tillman pinched possession of the ball after not realising the ball had been knocked out of play for his injury. 

On the incident, Tillman revealed that he did not communicate with Thistle’s players at full-time, due to their reaction after he found the back of the net. 

He told Kicker: “We let them make it 2:2 and for me, it had then been cleared up and we still won the game fairly. 

“But I wanted nothing more to do with these players because when they all came running towards me, in human terms they didn’t deal with the situation correctly. That is, in terms of what was said.” 

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Rangers boss Michael Beale heaped praise upon Tillman after the game insisting, he was not guilty of cheating for the goal. 

Beale instructed his Rangers players to allow Scott Tiffoney to run up the pitch unopposed and equalise but the Light Blues got the winner with four minutes of normal time remaining when Connor McAvoy headed into his own net under pressure from James Sands. 

He said: “Listen, since I have been here and since the first interview I said I was excited to work with him. 

“I think he is a fantastic young player and he has been terrific for the last few weeks, absolutely outstanding. 

“I am glad that we collectively made the decision we did because I didn’t want to be sitting here talking about Malik Tillman in a different light. He was completely unaware. 

“Malik deserves things said and written about him that are the right things because his effort his fantastic, his quality is fantastic. 

“He won us a penalty. He is driving up the pitch, he is taking on a lot of information for a 20-year-old. I couldn’t be happier with his contribution.”