Braga chief Antonio Salvador has ripped into referee Francois Letexier - branding him the worst official within the Europa League.
The French official diminished Braga to 9 males throughout their quarter-final defeat at Ibrox on Thursday evening and it is left Salvador fuming.
Letexier awarded Rangers a penalty within the first-half and despatched off Vitor Tormena within the course of earlier than displaying to quick-fire yellow playing cards to Iuri Medeiros in extra-time.
And the Portuguese membership's president was livid on the show of the whistler in addition to showing to goal criticism in direction of his personal supervisor, Carlos Carvalhal.
He raged: "We now have seen the worst efficiency of a referee in the complete competitors.
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"The Europa League cannot have referees like that and likewise the VAR judges too. That is why Braga aren't within the semi-finals.
"Within the first half, we did not play as a group, both on the pitch or on the bench.
"We had been higher within the second half and I've a lot reward for the gamers. They fought and labored till exhaustion. They had been nonetheless within the tie till the referee took cost.
"I'm very happy with the gamers. We by no means gave up, however had no luck.
"However we had been additionally up in opposition to a superb group, Rangers, in a implausible stadium."
Salvador additionally claimed Braga deserved to undergo, regardless of being outplayed for lengthy spells by Giovanni van Bronckhorst 's facet
He insisted: “For what they did in each video games, for what they did within the second half, for what they did in additional time, SC Braga deserved to go, and they'd have handed with a very good referee.”