Sean Dyche was left frustrated by VAR once again after Everton were knocked out of the FA Cup by Luton Town.

The Blues boss believed Luton’s opening goal should have been disallowed for a foul on Dominic Calvert-Lewin. VAR did check the incident but the goal still stood.

It was the latest contentious call to go against Everton following a host of controversial decisions – so many that Everton supporters wrote to referee chief Howard Webb to express concern.

They included the red card against Calvert-Lewin in the third round of this competition, a decision that was overturned after Everton successfully appealed.

Luton took the lead just before half-time when Alfie Doughty swung a corner into the near post. Calvert-Lewin went down under the flight of the ball under pressure from Ross Barkley and it then bounced up and deflected beyond Joao Virginia via Vitalii Mykolenko.

Highlighting his disappointment over the decision to allow the goal to stand, Dyche said: “We can’t get on the right side of VAR. There were two hands in Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s back. You could say he went down a bit light, which he probably did, but at the end of the day I see penalties given when one is given for someone treading on somebody’s toe. So I am frustrated with that.”

Everton equalised in the second half when Jack Harrison’s effort was spilled over the line by Tim Krul, only to then concede in stoppage time – from another corner. Reflecting on the game, Dyche said: “The game was a scrappy, awkward, ugly affair, they got the best side of it with two set pieces. It was that type of game. When we scored I thought we had about 15 minutes when we looked the more likely and then we conceded a soft corner at the end and then a goal through a bit of a ricochet. It was a tight, awkward, awkward game I thought and fair play to them because they found a way through it.”