Aberdeen Cries Foul As Scottish FA Quickly Weirds Into Nawrocki Supposed Red Card.
But things could have been even worse had referee Steven McLean decided that Maik Nawrocki should have been given a second yellow after he caught Bojan Miovski on the shin during the second half of the 1-1 draw between the teams at Pittodrie.
The score had just one 1-0 to the Dons at that point, with the Hoops rearguard looking distinctly shaky.
Nicolas Kuhn eventually came on to rescue a point from an Adam Idah assist.
It was definitely a reprieve for Nawrocki, who was starting for the injured Cameron Carter-Vickers, with Miovski actually booked by the referee for protesting too vehemently about the incident.
There was a rare amount of unanimity amongst the pundits on Sky Sports that it was worthy of a second caution of the day.
The only point which could be said in his defence was the fact that the Pole’s first caution for a fairly innocuous collision with Dons new boy Killian Phillips was fairly harsh.
Chris Sutton in the gantry admitted he was ‘a fortunate boy’ as he could ‘easily have seen a red card for that’.
Backed up by the likes of former Celtic and Aberdeen star Charlie Mulgrew and ex-Rangers and Kilmarnock frontman Kris Boyd, Dons hero Russell Anderson said that the decision ‘baffled’ him.
Anderson said: “He was very lucky, you talk about turning points in games and stuff and I know there was along way to go after the potential incident.
I just can’t see how that second incident isn’t a yellow card.
“It baffles me how you can get decisions like that wrong.
“It makes you wonder if he hadn’t been on a booking would he have given him a yellow card.”