GIOVANNI VAN BRONCKHORST lamented the lack of VAR in Scottish football as Rangers were denied two clear penalty calls during their draw with Dundee United.
The champions benefitted from the technology in midweek as they stunned Borussia Dortmund to clinch a remarkable 4-2 victory in the Europa League.
But Van Bronckhorst's side were brought back down to earth with a bump at Tannadice and required a Joe Aribo equaliser to cancel out Ross Graham's first half header.
Graham survived solid appeals for a penalty as referee Bobby Madden failed to award a spot-kick when Charlie Mulgrew's clearance struck the defender on the arm.
And Madden left Rangers frustrated later in the afternoon as Graham got away with a shirt pull on Fashion Sakala and was able to stay on the park for the closing stages.
The visitors were left with only a point to show for their dominance and Van Bronckhorst rued a series of missed chances on a costly afternoon in the Premiership title race.
Van Bronckhorst said: "The first emotion of course is disappointment that we didn’t win here. I don’t know how many chances we created, I think the most chances we created this season to score.
"But eventually the chances have to be scored and that is what we didn’t do today and that is why we dropped points.
"Of course I think also the first half we were good. Not dominating but good. We knew with the set pieces against that they were getting dangerous moments.
"Second half was only one way and once we scored the first goal you see the momentum was for us. We created enough chances to win this game and that is the only thing that we didn’t do well today.
"You know my standing point [on referees]. VAR will make it easier and these decisions can be turning points.
"They can change the games. But there is no VAR, so end of discussion.
"What can we do? There is no VAR so every decision that the referee will make cannot be overturned. We have to respect the decision that he makes.
"We saw last Thursday when VAR decisions changed the game for us. Today maybe as well. But we can talk for hours here and the discussion ends because there is no VAR."
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