Dermot Gallagher admits VAR faced a "dilemma" over sending off Motherwell's Lennon Miller in their clash with Rangers.

It was an action packed afternoon in Lanarkshire as Apostolos Stamatelopoulos put the ball beyond Jack Butland after Robin Propper's poor header cannoned off the Australia cap - and allowed the Steelmen to work the ball forward and open the scoring on Sunday. Things went from bad to worse for Philippe Clement's side before the break as Tawanda Maswanhise found the net - before Hamza Igamane's double rescued a point for the Light Blues. The result left Rangers trailing Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic by 14 points - with some gripes from the Ibrox camp after both referee Kevin Clancy and Steven McLean in the VAR room decided against penalising the 'Well scorer.

Asked about complaints from Rangers boss Philippe Clement over a handball, Gallagher told Sky Sports: "It's really intriguing. The ball does strike his arm, but it's tucked in. The question there has to be 'is it deliberate?' - because he didn't score from that. It's all about the jump - when it strikes him - the VAR says it's not deliberate and therefore the game goes on."

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Panelist Stephen Warnock chimed in: 'That's not handball. I'm not saying it doesn't hit his arm, but where do you want him to go? He has tried to make himself as small as he can - that's not handball." Gallagher rounded off: "If it doesn't hit his arm it hits his body. He can't avoid it."

The former Premier League whistler also cleared Igamane of any sin before he netted his first of the afternoon at Fir Park. The Moroccan appeared to initially be in an offside position before the ball struck the post - but was judged to be outwith goalkeeper Aston Oxborough's line of sight.

Gallagher said: "When the ball strikes the post there is a player in the offside position. He peels off. The question is does he impact on the move and is in an offside position. But he doesn't impact on the goalkeeper's vision. He doesn't play the ball. By the time the shot is taken he is in an onside position, so the fact that he is in the goalkeeper's view doesn't matter."

Under pressure from Tony Watt at a corner, Butland also failed to get a strong punch to the cross and thumped the ball into his own net. Whistler Clancy blew his whistle for a free-kick against Watt and spared the blushes of the Rangers No. 1, with Gallagher stating: "The only thing is his arm is in the air, does he think he catches him because he blows early?"

Warnock was emphatic stating: "Lucky boy. That should have stood. If your arms are up and they are pulling you down then fair enough, but there isn't any of that. It's contact more so from behind. Butland moves back into him."

Miller also appeared to catch the Oscar Cortes on the ankle in the second half - but was only shown a booking. Gallagher reckons that it was the big call the match officials got wrong, stating: "I looked at this and think he gets the ball after the man. It's not a nice tackle. The only that saves him is the referee is too close, he doesn't see it as clear as we do."

Pressed on why VAR didn't intervene, he went on: "It's all about the threshold isn't it? This is the dilemma. Is it a clear and obvious error? The referee there has given a yellow card, and they have said no."