"You'd like to think that you're protected, in a sense, from things like that. Seeing it afterwards, it was perhaps later than I thought in real time as well. So, a difficult one to accept. Difficult to accept that that's perhaps a precedent that is going to continue if that's a similar situation against any team, regardless of who it is. Obviously, with the addition of all the assistance that the referees perhaps get nowadays, we can only hope moving forward that the right decisions get made and it stays as fair as it possibly can."
"It's something that we need to take personally and something that we need to do better in the remaining four games and see where that takes us."
"It's a difficult time, but it's one where you have an opportunity to stand up. The club's always going to be under the microscope. It's about sticking your chest out and getting on with it and standing up to the challenge and being better."
Jack Butland finds not sending off Auston Trusty difficult to accept after Trusty's boot appeared to connect with Butland's head and only received a yellow. Referee Nick Walsh showed a yellow card and VAR did not intervene, leaving Rangers concerned. Celtic won the Scottish League Cup semi-final 3-1 after extra time. Butland questioned whether there was malice, emphasized players' expected protection, and warned about establishing a precedent in similar incidents. He called for the refereeing assistance to ensure correct, fair decisions moving forward. Rangers also lost 2-0 at home to Roma, leaving them bottom of their Europa League group with no points and seven straight European defeats. Butland described the situation as an opportunity for the squad to respond and prove critics wrong.
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