Everton boss Sean Dyche refused to blame Manchester City's penalty for Wednesday night's defeat.
Everton had a halftime lead through Jack Harrison, but City stormed back via goals from Phil Foden, Julian lvarez (p) and Bernardo Silva.
Dyche later said: "They are a very good side, we know that. We know they make chances and you have to try to stop those which we didn't do.
"We can debate the penalty all day. It has been by managers on Zoom calls to say it's a farce but that's the way it goes.
"That's completely natural. He's not putting his arm up to save it, he's literally jumping in to try to block the ball. How that is given as a penalty is bizarre in my world but I must be from a different planet. Tonight the linesman gives that and he's 18 yards away so I don't know who is giving what any more.
"Who knows? All the managers are debating it. Someone needs to stand up at some point and realise that can't be a penalty because he's just throwing himself in front of it to try to block the ball, that's it.
"Manchester City came out in the second half and played much longer which we didn't deal with. In the first half we were very good tactically. We had a great chance to get back in it. The penalty changes the feel of the game but when they get their noses in front, they are a hard team to get back to.
"It's one point minus 10. On paper these two games are very tough but the mentality was very good. James Garner was outstanding. Dwight McNeil has had a couple of personal things he had to deal with and his mentality was superb. There's a lot of good things in tonight's performance that shows they are giving everything."