BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche criticised Arsenal for diving after his side were beaten 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's brace and a late Alex Iwobi strike gave the Gunners the points with Ashley Barnes on target for a spirited Clarets side.

But after the game Burnley boss Dyche felt there were occasions in the match where Arsenal players had gone down too easily while his side were also denied a spot kick after a push on Kevin Long.

Dyche said: “Shall we start about 61 games without a penalty and a clear double-handed push in the back on Kevin Long?

“And Ashley Barnes getting booked when their player clearly (Sokratis) threw an elbow out at him?

“I’ve seen it back, an unnatural arm movement towards the face. Somehow Ashley Barnes gets booked.

“Two dives, no one seems to want to do anything about the diving in the game apart from me.

“I’m still amazed by it. They don’t get booked, and we know nothing will get done about it retrospectively.

“If they were booked, one would definitely have been off the pitch.

“Numerous other things, even at the end, (Vydra) goes through with (Granit) Xhaka, touches him on his shoulder, marginally, and he goes down and gets a free kick, centre halves now going down with hardly anything!

“Incredible, but I’ll leave it there, no one seems to want to effect the diving.

“I just want to see it banned, and then it would evaporate from the game.

“There is hundreds of millions at stake, and we have all kinds of gadgets to view these things, and hopefully VAR will make a difference, although I don’t think it will make a radical difference.

“I’m talking about the morality of the game, I’m absolutely amazed where it’s at at the moment.

“Can’t we just get in with playing? Then, alarmingly, we were questioned about some tackles!

“It’s quite refreshing to see someone tackle someone, I think."

On his team's performance, Dyche added: "Two of the three goals were soft but we’ve delivered a performance.

"We’ve definitely taken the game on so I think we could have got something but we know, even with a good performance, you can’t give two soft goals away.

“The final one is a marginal offside but we certainly didn’t get a lot of decisions."