Michael Beale took another swipe at officials over Rangers' disallowed goal against Celtic during his press conference today.
The Ibrox club wrote to the SFA for answers after they felt they were denied a perfectly good goal in the first derby fixture of the season.
Cyriel Dessers was penalised for a foul on Celtic defender Gustaf Lagerbielke following a VAR review.
Referee Don Robertson initially played on but he awarded a free-kick to Celtic after being called to his monitor by video assistant referee Alan Muir.
The decision denied Rangers the opening goal and they went on to lose to Kyogo Furuhashi’s strike in first-half stoppage-time.
Beale referenced the incident again today as he updated on the fitness of the Rangers squad. He said: "The strongest team will play the next game. There have been some things that have not been ideal at the start of the season for one or two players in terms of not being available or not being in a fantastic place.
"But Tom Lawrence is now fully fit, he comes into the squad. Kemar Roofe has played the last two or three. He would have two in two if the officials would’ve done their job correctly in the last game so he’s in a really good place at the moment.
"Unfortunately, Todd Cantwell will probably miss the next three or four games as a result of the challenge at the end of the game. Kieran Dowell’s the same but other than that, everyone else is fit and ready to go so on we go for these next few games."
On the injuries to Cantwell ad Dowell, Beale added: "Something with Cantwell's knee picked up in a challenge towards the end of the game. He played on, we had to send him for a scan and thought it would be worse than it is, the initial diagnosis, so we're probably two or one and a half weeks into that.
"Dowell's is a strange reaction with his knee, he and Todd have had their legs in a brace for the last week or so. Kieran is out jogging but we need to see how that goes and I'd say he's three or four weeks away as well."
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