VAR: Controlled FA Cup decisions prove expensive, so football is better with or without technology? | Football news
They say that absence makes the heart grow – so is the case with VAR after the fourth circle of the FA Cup who saw a number of controversial decisions in the lack of technology?
Leicester City, Birmingham and Chelsea were among the clubs that dealt with the absence of technology, and Var was not used in the FA Cup until the fifth circle onwards.
Last week, the Premier League has discovered data showing that accuracy improve, stating that there were 13 varnish from 70 interventions of this term, compared to 20 of 61 in the same phase last season.
The Premier League also claims that 100 percent of offsid decisions in top flight were correct this season.
It will be of little comfort to Leicester fans, who were convinced that Harry Maguire was in the offside when he achieved the late winner of the Man UTD that they were dropping them out of the FA Cup on Friday. In the meantime, Birmingham fans will point to a goal for Newcastle, where the whole ball seemed to cross the line, while Chelsea’s attraction for handball in Brighton were unable to review.
Here, Sky Sports See controversial decisions around the FA Cup circle and how VAR may have intervened.
Maguire appears in an offside before scoring the last winner of the UTD man
WHAT HAPPENED
Manchester United claimed a place in the fifth round in a controversial way. Maguire was a hero when he nodded in United’s winner of the injury, but if Var was in action, he would not stand.
When Bruno Fernandes swung in his free kick, Maguire was already several meters deeper than any defender from Leicester, but was not undiscovered by the lines and judges.
Which was said
United chief Ruben Amorim admitted after the match that the winning goal of his side was not supposed to stand.
“It was not a goal with VAR, and I think it’s important to have because it’s a fair for play,” he said.
“It’s really hard to lose one game at the last minute with playing in the offside, but we need and sometimes deserve some luck.”
The angry Ruud Van Nisnolrooy did not refrain in his terrible assessment of United’s winner, who called “unacceptable.”
“We were not defeated in Fergie Time, we were defeated in the offside of time,” said Leicester chief ITV.
“Var, you have a few inches, a few inches. This was half a meter, purely okay. It’s hard to take because the team deserved extra time.
“When you prepare all week for this game, responding after Everton, and the game decided on a clear and obvious mistake, it is unacceptable.
“At this level is unthinkable and then you have nothing else to do.”
Chelsea collapses after ‘Clear’ handball from Lamptey
WHAT HAPPENED
Chelsea collapsed from the FA Cup after a 2-1 defeat of the Premier League of Brighton, but the winner Kaora Mitoma blurred the controversy.
Georginio is Rutter Grizo equalizing after Cole Palmer forced Barte’s goalkeeper’s mistake, but the blues wanted the winner to be off after the blocked shot appeared to be held on the hand of Tariq Lamptey before he eventually found a mitoma.
Which was said
Chelsea chief Enzo Maresca was clear in his opinion of the situation after the game, after claiming that football was “complicated” without VAR.
“I think handball is quite clear,” he said Bbc. “In the last two or three days there have been many different moments in different games. Without VAR, that’s complicated.”
Newcastle knockouts Birmingham with the help of “Ghost Cil”
WHAT HAPPENED
The Birmingham goalkeeper seemed to have made a wonderful savings to retain the first Newcastle goal from Joe Willock in a 3-2 dramatic victory, but with a goal-line technology that is not used in the FA Cup under the Championship, Assistant, Assistant The judges marked that the ball had crossed the line.
Willock continued to see the second ‘goal’ correctly excluded because of the offside later in the game.
Man City avoids orient
WHAT HAPPENED
Manchester City managed to overcome early intimidation against Leyton Orient, but some will claim that the host opener did not need to count in the first place.
Immediately before Jamie Donley started his long -term effort from only halfway, which pulled Stefan Ortega and in the back of the net, the new signature of Nico Gonzalez was aggressively demolished from the ball before he eventually went injured on his debut.
Which was said
Pep Guardiola city boss said “one or two” decisions missed during the game, and the challenge on Gonzalez offered a great check of reality in England for its new midfielder.
“I think Nico immediately got what the Premier League and Referees were,” Guardiola said.
“I know it’s harder without VAR because they’re not used to it, but there were one or two actions. I say that, because we won, otherwise I would be silent, but there was a clear punishment.
“I think he understood perfectly what England was. It’s a pity because I don’t know how heavy he was, but he couldn’t continue.”
