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Robbie Hanratty

'Confused' Rangers boss demands Scottish FA explanation after Hibernian penalty award

Philippe Clement is confused why Hibernian were awarded a penalty during their 3-3 draw with Rangers on Sunday. 

And he's already eager to hear what the Scottish FA's Key Match Incident (KMI) panel have to say about the decision from referee John Beaton and his officials. 

Rangers playmaker Ianis Hagi was deemed to have challenged Hibs' Josh Campbell inside the box.

The collision was enough to make Beaton point to the spot, which Martin Boyle subsequently dispatched his second goal of the afternoon on the hour mark.

But the Rangers manager just isn't accepting the outcome at all and claims his players may need to change their approach as a result.

"It's about hearing what the thoughts were of the referee, to hear why the penalty was given, because it's not clear for me," Clement told Sky Sports post match.

"For me, it's never a penalty. It's from both sides a collision and nothing more. You can give it two ways, so you don't give a penalty in that situation. The referee had a different view on it and that's it.

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"It's important also to ask an explanation because I need to explain to my players why this is a penalty. 

"If this things happen in the future, why would it be a penalty. But I don't see the explanation because Ianis was on the wrong side, it's not enough for this situation as they both slide into each other."

Asked if it was a mistake twice by the refereeing team since VAR didn't overturn Beaton's decision, Clement replied: "That's not my job and it will probably be about clear and obvious error, so in that moment it would've probably have been better to not decide as a referee. 

"But the referee was clearly very confident about it. I'm curious about what the panel will say about this because if these are penalties every time then I need to ask all my players at every contact or collision to go down in the box. I don't want that because that's not how football needs to be played."

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