David Moyes was left fuming with referee Felix Zwayer after West Ham’s 1-1 draw with Lyon.
The Hammers boss saw his side battle to a 1-1 draw after seeing Aaron Cresswell sent off at the end of the first half, for an alleged pull on Mousa Dembele. 
Moyes, though, felt that Jarrod Bowen was fouled in the build-up to the decision, insisting that the Hammers should have had a free-kick for themselves, rather than being reduced to 10 men.
Moyes was so incensed that he was booked at half time for his protests to the referee.
Jarrod Bowen actually opened the scoring despite the numerical disadvantage but Tanguy Ndombele equalised, leaving the tie on a knife-edge ahead of the second leg next week.
And the Hammers boss was disappointed that there was no intervention from VAR to give his side a free-kick.
Quoted by Sky Sports, he said: “The only thing I want to say about it is that I think the tackle on Jarrod Bowen leading up to it was a foul.
“I think it’s in the same phase of play, which I would expect VAR to have intervened and done something. That’s the disappointing part for me.
Moyes also felt that the game was continually broken up by the referee’s insistence on blowing the whistle for soft free-kicks.
He added: “I watch a lot of games in Europe. I think that the way the games are played here [in England], we’ve moved on from soft free-kicks in this country. The referees have moved on and tried to change the way it goes.
“And to be fair, I think the referees we’ve had in the [Europa League] games this season have all been very, very good and allowed the games to flow and not accepted soft things.
“I just thought the game never got any chance to flow really from the early part. It was quite broken up.
“We’ve got a really difficult game to come, but we expected that. The first leg is always difficult and hard to get a defining result.
“The game is very much all to play for, at half-time I would have taken that.”