Gary Neville branded the decision to allow Pierre-Emerick Aubameyank to re-take a penalty a "disgrace" during Arsenal's clash with Norwich.
The Gunners were awarded a spot-kick when defender Christoph Zimmermann was penalised for handball.
Tim Krul saved Aubameyang's initial spot-kick, but the Arsenal skipper made no mistake after VAR intervened to order a retake for encroachment.
Sky Sports pundit Neville took to social media to slam the decision by officials.
He tweeted: "That's a disgrace!"
Gary Lineker added: "Encroachment has never been a thing. Now it’s a thing. It’s become a thing because of VAR. Things ain’t what they used to be."
The decision infuriated keeper Krul and his Norwich team-mates.
"I saved the first penalty so it was frustrating that it had to be re-taken," said the Dutchman.
"After they scored I just said to Ozil: 'you are lucky' because the referee helped them a lot there."
Aubameyang's effort hauled the visitors level after Teemu Pukki had fired Norwich in front with a 21st-minute effort that took a big deflection off Shkodran Mustafi.
However, they regained the lead on the stroke of half time through Todd Cantwell.
Aubameyang struck again after the break to rescue a point for the Gunners.
