LUTON'S Carlton Morris refuted claims that he dived to win a penalty against Middlesbrough - and Rob Edwards agreed with his striker.

Both Morris and Edwards claimed there was contact from Boro keeper Zack Steffen, even though replays of the incident appear to show that wasn't the case.

Referee Graham Scott - a Premier League official - pointed to the spot, to the disbelief of the Boro players and bench, with Michael Carrick describing the call as a "bad decision".

Morris picked himself up to score the winning goal from the spot. And afterwards, in an interview with Sky Sports, was adamant there was contact from Steffen.

He said: “Absolutely, my first touch has to be better if I’m honest with myself, I expect high standards from myself especially in that sort of situation.

“Clicks (Jordan Clark) has played me through, my touch is a bit heavy, but that leaves the keeper to commit. I got there first and felt some contact from his knee on my leg, then momentum just took me down.

“I won’t go into too much detail with my plan, but my plan was to get a heavy touch to try and make him make a decision, but I just got a bit too carried away with it.

“There was contact, how much there was is neither here nor there. I felt contact and when you’re moving at those sort of speeds, it doesn’t take much to put you off your stride pattern.”

Asked if he was already on his way down before Steffen got to him, Morris said: “Not really, no.”

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Edwards backed his striker in his post-match press conference.

He said: “There's some contact there on Carlton.

"I’ve watched it back a few times, you need a certain angle, but there is contact so he's gone down.

"If I was in their position, you look at certain angles, then of course you'd be disappointed, but from the angle I've seen, there's contact, he's gone down, penalty.”