Barry Robson fumes Aberdeen should have had TWO Rangers penalties as miffed Dons boss says there's 'no debate'

Robson has been left reeling by the officials in the Viaplay Cup final after his side were denied two penalties.

Barry Robson insists Aberdeen should have had TWO penalties against Rangers in the Viaplay Cup Final.

The Dons boss spoke out as he railed against SFA inconsistencies while his player Jamie McGrath branded one of the spot-kick calls a “stonewaller”. Rangers keeper Jack Butland took out Duk in the second half and there was a shirt pull by Todd Cantwell on Stefan Gartenmann as Gers went on to win Sunday’s Hampden clash. Robson said: “These are things that have gone against us. That is my frustrations with those.

“I don’t know if they were (VAR) checked. No, there is no debate over them. I need to accept them like I have had to accept them every time. All I can control is trying to get my team to perform well. These things haven’t gone for us for whatever reason but we know we can rely on ourselves to be better and we will work to do that everyday.”

Aberdeen midfielder Jamie McGrath claimed Butland’s challenge on Duk was a no-brainer of a penalty. McGrath said: “I don’t know if they looked at the penalty incident as it seems they were checking for a red card during the aftermath. I don’t know why they didn’t look at the Duk one as for me it’s a stonewaller. He taps it in if the challenge isn’t made.”

Robson added: “We want to go to finals and go down there and win them. We all make mistakes. I make them as a manager, referees make them and players make them. We all make them but I can’t get involved in that because of the position I am in. I don’t want to start going against referees and VAR. Referees have a really difficult job like us.”

Robson also back-tracked on his post-match comments that Aberdeen had no divine right to think they could come down to Hampden and dominate for the majority of the game. That angered a lot of the Red Army but the Aberdeen manager insisted it was said in the heat of the moment.

Robson admitted: “On reflection for me, it was straight after the game. I was just really disappointed because I wanted to win it for the fans. They gave us great support and that was my frustration.

“They have been great for us. We had a good record against Rangers. We tried to go after them as much as we could and that is my frustration.”

Robson also confirmed contract talks were ongoing with Connor Barron.