SCO 0-1 HUN, Euro 2024: Scotland Denied '100% Penalty' Against Hungary, Says Steve Clarke

Scotland head coach Steve Clarke was adamant his side should have been awarded a penalty as their Euro 2024 campaign ended with a 1-0 defeat to Hungary in Stuttgart. (More Football News)

Kevin Csoboth scored the winning goal in the 10th minute of injury-time to put Scotland out of another major tournament in the group stages. 

However, things could have been much different for Clarke's side.

Stuart Armstrong looked to have skipped beyond Hungary's Willi Orban in the 80th minute, before the RB Leipzig defender grappled across the midfielder, with both tumbling inside the area. 

Referee Facundo Tello waved away Scotland's appeals, and a subsequent check by VAR deemed the challenge not worthy of awarding a spot-kick. 

바카라�It was 100% a penalty," Clarke said. "Somebody, somewhere has to explain to me why that's not a penalty. It바카라�s a one goal game, we get the penalty and it could have been a different night.

바카라�I've got other words, but I'm not going to use them. I don't understand how VAR can look at that and say it's not a penalty.

바카라�In a European competition, it may have been better to have a European referee but we had European VAR and maybe a referee didn't see the challenge clearly on the pitch, so what's the purpose of VAR if they are not going to come in on something like that. It was a penalty.바카라�

Having qualified for successive European Championships, this was Scotland바카라�s 12th major tournament group stage, and in 50% of those they have failed to win a single match 바카라� at the 1954, 1958, 1986, and 1998 World Cups and EURO 2020 and 2024.

바카라�We gave everything, there바카라�s nothing you can fault there. It was a very tough game against a good opponent," said Clarke. "A very close game that was always going to be decided by the first goal. You could tell that after half an hour.

바카라�Unfortunately for us when we opened up towards the end of the game to try and chase the winner, that we felt we needed to get to the next stage, we got caught on the counter.바카라�