Scott Brown was candid in his assessment of Celtic's inept performance against Malmo last night, insisting that he was "ashamed" of the display.

Celtic lost the tie 4-3 after going into the second leg with a 3-2 advantage with Marcus Rosenberg and William Carvalho claiming that goals that sinked the Parkhead side.

Brown told BT Sport: “I’m ashamed of the performance from all over the park. From the way defended to the way we attacked it wasn’t like us at all.

“We’ve got to put our hands up. We have high expectations at this club and we need to try to deal with it.

“It’s a lot of pressure on us but we should have been a lot better than that today.

“The performance wasn’t there. We didn’t look we were going to score a goal and looked like we’d concede a few.”

Celtic exited the campaign to Legia Warsaw and Maribor last season and the skipper believes that there has to be an inquest within the Hoops dressing room as to why they have failed to make the group stages in two successive campaigns.

“We can’t do that two years in a row," her lamented. "We've got to the final hurdle and we fell,” Brown added.

“We need to learn, we said we’d learn from last year and we’ve not. We need to go away and have a big chat, learn from that and take everything on.

“The first leg we were unlucky with the corner at the end but we should have learned from that.

“It’s our own personal pride as well and it’s just been shattered.”

Nir Bitton had a goal wrongly disallowed but the midfielder refused to point the finger at referee was controversially ruled out by referee Milorad Madzic.

“Yeah it should have stood but like I said there’s no excuses,” he said.

“I think it was a clear goal but mistakes are part of football sometimes the referee makes mistakes. We need to deal with that and look forward.”