CHRIS FOY: Ivan Toney's equaliser against Arsenal should NOT have stood! VAR failed to fully investigate the lines and should have spotted Christian Norgaard was offside

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Mikel Arteta was quick to voice his anger on Saturday as he felt Ivan Toney's eqauliser against Arsenal should have been ruled out for offside.

The controversial goal eventually cost Arsenal a point, as the game finished 1-1 after Leandro Trossard's earlier goal.

Sportsmail's Chris Foy, an ex-Premier League referee and PGMOL representative, explains how the decision was made, and what should have happened.

Ivan Toney puts the ball in the net and VAR Lee Mason obviously runs through the checks.

VAR was looking to see if there was an offside and whether Ethan Pinnock had blocked off Gabriel in the build-up.

VAR should have ruled out Ivan Toney's goal against Arsenal on Saturday

The game finished 1-1  at the Emirates after Toney's 14th league goal of the season

Mikel Arteta admitted he was 'frustrated' after the game as he argued the goal should have been ruled out

He looked at the possible foul and decided there hadn’t been one and therefore referee Peter Bankes hadn’t made a clear and obvious error.

However, in the build-up to the goal, Christian Norgaard — whose cross it is that Toney heads in — is in an offside position.

However, the truth is that VAR didn’t fully investigate with the lines. The lines, simply, didn’t go down. And that counts as human error.

Had the lines gone down the goal would have been disallowed for offside.