Tony Docherty questioned VAR's role in his Dundee side's 3-2 loss to Heart of Midlothian at Tynecastle Park.

The visitors led 2-0 at the interval through goals from Jordan McGhee and Lyall Cameron after an impressive first-half performance, aided by some ropey Hearts defending, but Steven Naismith's men came back to emerge victorious despite missing a penalty from Lawrence Shankland.

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“I feel as if I almost witnessed two teams there," he said. “I could not have been more happy with the level of performance in the first half, we executed everything to the letter. We looked a really strong team. But we maybe got caught up in it a little bit. I have a lot of young players in there and they’ll learn from this. But they’ll learn the hard way that in those situations you need to make key decisions, that’s what cost us tonight.”

“I don’t think it was a penalty and there was a foul on Lyall Cameron for the third goal. But I don’t know where we are with VAR. We had not VAR at the weekend and had a perfectly good goal disallowed. The referee said he needed VAR. But we continue to see poor decisions whether we have it or not.

“It was decisions that impacted the game but I will analyse the things we can do better.

"We were the architects of our own downfall but we have to focus on the positives and learn to manage games better.”