Hibernian manager Neil Lennon branded the decision to send him off on his Easter Road debut as "nonsensical".

Spanish official Juan Martinez Munueara sent for the former Celtic coach to the stand after he protested against a disallowed goal from Jason Cummings.

Lennon felt the strike should have stood and believes the call to banish him to the stand was a double injustice.

Lennon said: "We had a legitimately perfect, brilliant goal disallowed. He's onside and I was angry because, firstly, he (the assistant referee) got it wrong, and he wasn't up with play.

"I remonstrated with the linesman and was sent off for no reason whatsoever. I didn't think the referee had a good game, which is what I expected after looking at his record before the game. The relationship with the two linesmen was poor.

"I want to appeal it, because it's just a piece of nonsense. It's the first time in Europe that I've been sent to the stand so I'm really irked by that.

"It looked to me like he (Munueara) wanted to be the star of the show rather than the players."

Grant Holt saw his penalty appeal turned down and Lennon was perplexed that the official didn't caution his player if he felt there was no foul.

"If the referee doesn't book Grant then it should have been a penalty," Lennon said.

"He's not going to fall over on his own. It looked like there was contact, but it was minimal. A lot of his decisions were pretty inconsistent."

Goalkeeper Otso Virtanen's blunder gave Brondby the lead after just 20 seconds, allowing Kamil Wilczek to score.

Despite the error, Lennon was pleased with how his team responded, saying: "My team were superb against a very good side.

"They gave me everything and left nothing on the pitch.

"We just lacked a bit of sharpness in the final third, which is totally understandable. There were some brilliant individual performances. "Having been rocked by a really poor goal from our point of view, we were spooked for five or 10 minutes, then the reaction after that was excellent."