Chris Sutton has called on the SFA to take retrospective action following an incident between Ryan Kent and Liam Scales during Sunday's League Cup semi-final.

The pair clashed in the middle of the park and replays appeared to show Kent throwing an arm towards the on-loan Aberdeen defender.

Nick Walsh halted play and VAR did not order the whistler to review the incident.

Sutton feels there was malice in the incident and he reckons Kent will be lucky to escape punishment.

He wrote on Twitter: "VAR didn’t work as it should north or south of the border at the weekend. Ryan Kent will be very lucky to escape retrospective action for lashing out at Liam Scales though…"

Var was intermittent during the semi-final showdown at Hampden Park as communication issues meant the video technology was struggling to reach Walsh.

For parts of the match, play continued without the use of VAR and both managers were critical at full-time.

Michael Beale said: "We knew that VAR was failing and kept failing.

"To be fair to me and Jim we wanted to play the game without it. 

"We’ve only had it a short period of time so if VAR fails they should just continue with the game. 

"There were a lot of breaks in the game which didn’t help either team. I thought the officials had a good game today."

Derek McInnes claims Kilmarnock were denied a clear penalty before they lost a late second goal in the 2-0 Viaplay Cup semi-final defeat to Celtic at Hampden Park a day earlier.

An incredulous McInnes said: “I feel at the penalty at the end, Joe Wright was manhandled. There is no way Giakoumakis can get to the ball but he has come through him, two arms round him. It is a penalty kick.

“I don’t understand why that is not a penalty, the referee has a brilliant view.

“What is the point of me speaking to the referee? Seriously.

“VAR should be speaking to the referee, that is the conversation that needs to be had, not me after the event when Celtic are through to a final. Pre-VAR, post-VAR – that is a penalty kick.

“Giakoumakis gets a bit excited. He is clumsy, it is a striker’s challenge, he stumbles into the back of Joe Wright with two hands around his waist, it is a penalty kick.

“Whoever is in the VAR, needs to be big enough to say to the referee, ‘are you sure you have seen this right? You need to come and see this again’.

“You have a really experienced referee there and you need experienced people to ask the experienced referee to have another look at it.

“What does it take? 30 seconds to have another look. I think if he sees it again, he will give a penalty.”