Steve Clarke wants answers over non-award of penalty to Scotland in defeat to Hungary

Steve Clarke demanded answers on a crucial penalty incident after Scotland's Euro 2024 ended with a 1-0 defeat to Hungary.

With the Group A match in Stuttgart finely balanced in the second half, substitute Stuart Armstrong went tumbling inside the Hungary box under a challenge from Willi Orban but Argentine referee Facundo Tello played on.

In the final moments of 10 added minutes, most of which was for treatment for a distressing injury to Barnabas Varga who was eventually carried off on a stretcher, substitute Kevin Csoboth scored on the counter for a 1-0 win to leave the Scots bottom of Group A with one point and out the competition.

The Scotland boss admitted being "sad and disappointed" at his side's exit from the competition but was adamant about the penalty claim.

He said: "100%. Somebody somewhere has to explain to me why that is not a penalty. It was 100%.

"It was a one-goal game. We get the penalty it could be a different night.

"I have other words but I am not going to use them.

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

"But they have given everything. You can't fault the effort.

"It was a very tough game, a good opponent, a close game.

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"It was always going to be decided with the first goal, I could tell that after half an hour.

"Unfortunately enough