Moussa Dembele winks like Cristiano Ronaldo, while David Moyes is booked after West Ham defender Aaron Cresswell is given red card as referee is slammed for treating players ‘like children’

David Moyes was shown a yellow card by referee Felix Zwayer for his animated protests following Aaron Cresswell's red card during West Ham's clash against Lyon.

The first leg of the quarter-final tie turned on the stoppage-time incident as Cresswell was shown a straight red for pulling Lyon forward Moussa Dembele down on the edge of the box.

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Replays showed the former Celtic forward, who winked at the Lyon bench after Cresswell was sent off, wouldn't have had a clear run at goal and former Hammer Alvin Martin believes the decision was harsh.

Martin said on commentary for talkSPORT: "The thing I can't understand is that I think he's going away from goal... Zouma I thought was closer but on the replay he seems to stop he should keep going.

"That's a massive turning point in the tie, there's no doubt about it. This has not been a difficult game to referee but he's made it more difficult. He's created issues of his own making.

"Dembele's not through on goal, Cresswell has touched him but maybe the referee could've got a yellow card and I don't think there would've been any argument from either manager."

The half-time whistle was blown shortly afterwards and Moyes was then disciplined by Zwayer as he gave the German official a piece of his mind.

But Moyes' anger was quite justified in talkSPORT host Hugh Woozencroft's eyes, who accused Zwayer of treating the players 'like children.'

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Woozencroft said on talkSPORT: "You'd think the referee has a toddler and he was refereeing the game in his back garden at the weekend because he has treated the players like children.

"You used to have to foul a player for it to be a foul, now you touch a player and it's a foul. I really expected VAR to overturn that."

Martin added: "For me it was a yellow all day long.

"Two players went down for Lyon earlier and the referee stopped the game for them. He had no right to stop the game. But as soon as he does that he sets a precedent for the game but when Bowen goes down why doesn't he do the same thing?"

West Ham responded to the setback impeccably as Jarrod Bowen put them ahead early in the second half.

However, the French side got level as Tanguy Ndombele fired in a loose ball after Ryan Fredericks failed to fully clear Tete's low cross as the two sides played out a 1-1 draw.