Derek McInnes has hit out at VAR officials stating they are 'doing his head in' after his Kilmarnock side were reduced to ten men in their 2-0 defeat to Hibernian.
Striker Kyle Vassell was sent off 20 minutes into the second half after an initial yellow card for a challenge on Marian Cabraja was upgraded by referee John Beaton following the intervention of VAR. Will Fish headed in the opener for the Easter Road side after just 16 minutes and a second from substitute Matthew Hoppe two minutes after the break earned them an advantage that rarely looked under threat.
Vassell could have dragged Killie level in the 24th minute but failed to get enough on his header as he directed Jordan Jones' brilliant in-swinging free-kick beyond the far post. McInnes raged after the game and question whether Beaton should have been called to the VAR screen in the first place.
Speaking on Sportsound, McInnes said: "I didn't even think it was a yellow. I was raging with John that he gave him yellow because I thought that the essence of the game I think Kyle's eyes have not come off the ball.
"He's tried to slow down with his movement he's not going in towards the Hibernian player, I think the Hibernian player comes into him. It's one of those ones if you are sitting in a VAR room, I think John dealt with it way he saw it and gave a yellow. For me that was bad enough.
"We you are sitting in a sanitised room and the referees see that challenge and watch it over and over and over again and they see it maybe aggressive behaviour. There was no aggression in the challenge. He's not took his eyes off the ball.
"It was a ridiculous decision. When John is pulled over he goes and looks at it again and he maybe sees contact. If he sees a boot in the face he says he has nowhere else to go. He shouldn't have been asked over about it, he dealt with the situation at the time. This VAR lot are doing my head in."
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