Sean Dyche admits he was confused by Everton’s disallowed goal against Fulham.
Saturday’s Premier League opener saw Dyche’s side slip to a 1-0 defeat at Goodison Park in a game where the hosts comfortably dominated chances.
One in particular saw the Blues have the ball in the back of Bernd Leno’s net through Michael Keane before it was disallowed by referee Stuart Attwell.
The match official deemed that James Tarkowski had committed a foul in the build-up when the Fulham stopper’s initial spilling of the ball into his path.
But that decision left Dyche perplexed after it was not sent to a VAR review by Attwell, who spoke with the Everton manager after the match about it.
He said: “I am a big fan of VAR, I always have been.
“I get they are promoting the idea the referee’s decision is first and we then sort it but today’s one, that is where it [VAR] should step in.
“For me – that was my gut feeling in the moment. You can normally tell because their bench did not go mad, I think they thought that was probably a goal.
“I can’t really work it out. I have seen it back, Tarky does nothing really, minimal contact of any kind other than the keeper catching it above him and landing on him.
“I don’t know what he is meant to do. As a player, I have no clue what he is meant to do, so therefore, why it is given as a foul I just do not know.
“The ref said he gave the decision, I just offered him a view that that is why VAR is there, that is when it should step in.
“At the minimum it should be that the referee looks at the monitor.”