Scotland boss Steve Clarke took intention at Facundo Tello and questioned why the Argentine was refereeing on the European Championship after his aspect have been denied a penalty in opposition to Hungary final night time.
Substitute Stuart Armstrong seemed to be felled by Willi Orban within the second half with replays clearly displaying the Hungary defender had made contact with the Scotland midfielder.
Tello waved play on and the VAR group refused to overrule him. Scotland pushed for the win they wanted late on however have been then caught by a sucker punch as Kevin Csoboth scored for Hungary within the tenth minute of harm time.
Defeat means Scotland end backside of Group A and exit the match.
A livid Clarke instructed BBC Scotland: “The second within the sport is the penalty. It’s 100 per cent a penalty.
“Any individual has to clarify to me why that isn’t a penalty as a result of in any other case, I’m considering there’s something improper.”
Alan Shearer has slammed the choice to not give Scotland a spot-kick in opposition to Hungary.
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Requested if had spoken to the referee, he added: “What’s the level? He’s from Argentina. What’s the level? Why is it not a European referee?
“I don’t perceive why he’s right here and never in his personal nation refereeing the sport.
“I don’t perceive the VAR can take a look at that and say it’s not a penalty, simply my opinion.”
Though Scotland had cause to be offended, that doesn’t cover from a poor efficiency that noticed them register only one shot on course, and that in harm time.
“A tricky night time for us, powerful night time. We couldn’t do what we wished to do,” admitted Clarke.
“All of us endure collectively, we’re unhappy collectively. We’re as unhappy because the supporters are as a result of on the finish of the day we’re all supporters, we wish to do properly for our nation.
“Sadly, it wasn’t our night time.”
Scotland fail to qualify as soon as once more
Defeat meant Scotland’s hopes of advancing to the knockout phases for the primary time at a significant match have been dashed as soon as once more.
Midfielder Callum McGregor mentioned: “It’s an enormous disappointment. There was a lot hope and expectation, we thought this was going to be the time we did it.
“The gamers gave every thing however typically in soccer the ball simply doesn’t drop the place you want it to drop. That was most likely the case tonight.
“The purpose wasn’t sufficient for us, it will have been a giant ask for us to undergo on two factors. We knew we needed to try to win the sport. You throw every thing at it and also you get hit on the counter-attack. That purpose was most likely irrelevant.
“We’ve been away from these competitions for a very long time. It’s constructing on a regular basis and typically it’s a must to endure disappointment to know the extent.
“We positively had the boldness and perception we might get the job completed. Hungary made it a troublesome sport, like we knew they might, and so they discovered the second of high quality which we by no means fairly did.”
