Furious Conte says VAR decision lacked 'honesty'

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte could not hide his fury at the decision by VAR to rule out Harry Kane's stoppage-time strike against Sporting Lisbon and accused the technology of being dishonest against his team.

Kane fired home in the fifth minute of added time to spark wild celebrations with the hosts believing the effort had sent them through to the last 16 of the Champions League.

Dutch official Pol van Boekel, who was in charge of VAR, ruled Kane had been ahead of the ball when Emerson Royal's header hit Flavio Nazinho and ricocheted into the path of the striker, who smashed in with aplomb to briefly make the score 2-1.

Sporting players and staff celebrated the decision to rule out the goal, which meant Marcus Edwards' first-half strike - cancelled out by Rodrigo Bentancur's 81st-minute header - left all four teams in Group D with a chance of making the knockout stage going into the last game.

"I think there are moments that maybe you can be a bit intelligent to understand you have just disallowed a regular goal because the goal was regular. The ball is in front of Kane," Conte insisted in his press conference before he walked out after one question.

"And then the VAR. I repeat you know I don't comment on referee decisions but the VAR, this season, I don't know why between Premier League and Champions League, we are not so lucky.

"I don't know why until now we are also the only team who repeated the penalty and every penalty I go to see, if the keeper move on line, I see a lot of the time. I want to see repetition of a penalty in Premier League.

"I think we are not so lucky with VAR but I think they create big damage. I would like to see if this type of decision you can take with a top team, in an important game, yeah I would