Haaland penalty claim, Wilson foul on Lloris lead the VAR Review

Video Assistant Referee causes contention each week successful the Premier League, but however are decisions made, and are they correct?

After each play we instrumentality a look astatine the large incidents, to analyse and explicate the process some successful presumption of VAR protocol and the Laws of the Game.

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JUMP TO: Tottenham 0-2 Newcastle | Chelsea 1-1 Man United | Everton 3-0 Palace | Douglas Luiz wins red-card appeal

Manchester City 3-1 Brighton

Possible penalty: Sanchez foul connected Haaland

What happened: In the 19th minute, Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Robert Sanchez appeared to drawback Erling Haaland arsenic the striker attempted to instrumentality the shot astir him. Referee Craig Pawson gave a extremity kick.

VAR decision: No penalty.

VAR review: Sanchez intelligibly catches Haaland, which makes this astir that level of interaction being capable to marque the striker spell to crushed successful the mode helium has.

Most would expect the VAR, Lee Mason, to grant a penalty, but helium chose not to due to the fact that the shot was going retired of play and helium deemed determination to beryllium minimal contact.

The statement that the shot was going retired doesn't look to clasp water, arsenic a foul remains a foul -- though it tin of people beryllium utilized erstwhile deciding upon a yellowish card, oregon a reddish paper for denying an evident goal-scoring opportunity. Minimal interaction should lone beryllium a information erstwhile the situation is enarthrosis to shoulder, oregon a regular tackle. When a subordinate catches an hostile with the sole of the footwear (studs) leading, past it should effect successful a punishment kick.

VAR overturn: Penalty for Dunk foul connected Silva

What happened: Bernardo Silva ran done the country successful the 39th infinitesimal and clashed with Lewis Dunk. Pawson ignored the appeals.

VAR decision: Penalty, scored by Haaland.

VAR review: Play continued portion the VAR reviewed the incidental and came to a determination (2 minutes, 15 seconds from foul to the punishment being awarded), successful enactment with the protocol. If the shot had gone retired of play astatine immoderate constituent successful this period, Pawson wouldn't person allowed play to restart. This happens successful astir games, truthful a lucifer tin transportation connected portion a reappraisal takes spot and not beryllium interrupted if the VAR clears the incident.

One of the cardinal things a VAR should look for is whether oregon not a subordinate has initiated interaction to gully the foul, which makes this VAR overturn confusing.

Mason felt it was much of a foul from Dunk, alternatively than interaction initiated from Silva (no propulsion was considered successful the review.) It's subjective whether you judge the Manchester City guardant did presumption his limb oregon helium was caught by Dunk, but for that precise crushed the VAR getting progressive seems wrong.

Had Pawson fixed the punishment himself, past determination is capable uncertainty for the VAR not to get progressive to overturn too. It should person stayed with the on-pitch outcome. For the VAR to beryllium the 1 to over-rule the referee connected specified a subjective telephone doesn't look to acceptable with the Premier League's overriding protocol for reviews. The referee volition person the last determination astatine the monitor, but the VAR volition usually amusement the grounds to enactment the overturn, alternatively than to person different look from respective angles.

There are similarities with Bukayo Saka's booking for simulation against Southampton, though it was a harsh determination from referee Robert Jones to amusement the yellowish card. Duje Caleta-Car made an effort to tackle Saka extracurricular the area, truthful the VAR cannot review, but the Arsenal guardant placed his limb into the defender's to initiate the contact.

The champion determination successful some cases would person been nary enactment and for play to continue.

Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Newcastle United

Possible foul: Wilson connected Lloris earlier scoring

What happened: Newcastle United took the pb successful the 31st infinitesimal erstwhile Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris came retired of his country and attempted to instrumentality a interaction connected the ball, and past collided with Callum Wilson. The striker picked up the escaped shot and lofted it implicit the Spurs defence to people (watch here.)

VAR decision: Goal stands.

VAR review: The VAR process took 2 minutes, 11 seconds due to the fact that Stuart Attwell had 3 things to check: offside, the foul, and handball by Wilson.

Referee Jarred Gillett decided it was a coming unneurotic betwixt striker and goalkeeper, with Lloris having rushed retired of his country to intercept the agelong shot implicit the top. There was nary offside oregon handball.

The lone grounds of a imaginable foul, alternatively than an accidental clash, was Wilson's near limb coming retired arsenic helium bumped into the Tottenham keeper, but it feels arsenic though that would beryllium searching for a crushed to disallow the goal. Remember Jarrod Bowen connected Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy?

The aforesaid applies to Haaland's situation connected Adam Webster earlier his archetypal extremity connected Saturday. The City striker showed large spot and immoderate referees mightiness person fixed a foul astatine the time, but the VAR shouldn't beryllium disallowing a extremity successful situations similar this.

As discussed successful last week's VAR Review astir the disallowed Man City extremity astatine Liverpool, decisions are acold amended erstwhile they are keeping with the mode a referee is managing the game. Gillett was allowing the play to travel truthful to disallow the extremity for what was a questionable foul concern wouldn't fit.

This incidental whitethorn besides amusement america however the VAR process is being improved. There are similarities to the extremity West Ham United's Maxwel Cornet had disallowed past period for the foul by Bowen; determination was interaction betwixt attacking subordinate and goalkeeper and the lucifer referee deemed it not capable to regularisation retired the goal, but it was cancelled done the VAR (who conscionable truthful happened to beryllium Gillett.) PGMOL admitted it was a mistake for the VAR to get involved.

Possible penalty: Handball by Royal

What happened: In the 51st minute, Joelinton attempted to caput a transverse backmost crossed the area, and the shot deed the limb of Emerson Royal.

VAR decision: No penalty.

VAR review: We sermon handball connected a play basis, and determination is simply a inclination for supporters to instrumentality idiosyncratic aspects of surely decisions and use them exclusively to different incidents, alternatively than arsenic an appraisal which takes successful each criteria.

For instance, portion proximity could beryllium the aforesaid connected 2 handball decisions, that doesn't mean limb presumption itself whitethorn not beryllium the over-riding information connected 1 compared to the other.

All handball decisions are subjective, and each 1 has its ain unsocial factors -- however has a subordinate made a challenge, ergo is helium taking a hazard with his limb successful that situation? Would you expect a subordinate to person his limb successful that position? Has the shot travel astatine the subordinate from a abbreviated region with nary clip to react? Has his limb moved towards the ball?

Royal had his limb successful a presumption that would beryllium expected erstwhile jumping to artifact the ball, adjacent though it was retired from the body. If the shot had deed his starring arm, oregon the limb it deed had been supra enarthrosis level, determination is simply a acold greater accidental it would person led to a penalty.

Compare this to 2 incidents this month, some with Michael Oliver arsenic referee. The archetypal involves Arsenal defender Gabriel against Liverpool erstwhile nary punishment was fixed owed to proximity -- though portion Gabriel was utilizing his arms arsenic balance, a punishment done VAR mightiness person been the amended outcome.

Then there's Aston Villa's Matty Cash against Fulham past Thursday. While proximity whitethorn beryllium akin to Gabriel, it's the mode Cash is making the situation with arms distant from his assemblage that creates an evident obstruction to the transverse and is precocious risk. There's precise small uncertainty the VAR would person advised a punishment if Oliver hadn't awarded it, but the Gabriel incidental is much subjective.

Possible offside: Kane erstwhile scoring

What happened: Tottenham pulled a extremity backmost successful the 54th infinitesimal done Harry Kane, but determination was a imaginable offside to beryllium reviewed (watch here.)

VAR decision: Goal stands.

VAR review: While Kane was onside from Clement Lenglet's archetypal flick on, the VAR reappraisal was astir a imaginable interaction from Davison Sanchez earlier the shot reached the England captain, which would person made him offside.

There was nary definitive impervious that the shot had touched Sanchez connected the mode through, truthful the VAR cannot intervene to disallow the goal.

Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United

Possible punishment overturn: McTominay foul connected Broja

What happened: Chelsea were awarded a punishment successful the 84th infinitesimal erstwhile Armando Broja was held by Scott McTominay arsenic the shot came implicit connected a country routine. Referee Stuart Attwell pointed to the punishment spot.

VAR decision: Decision stands.

VAR review: This concern provides the cleanable illustration of however VAR protocol, and the edict that the determination connected the transportation carries astir weight, volition ne'er springiness the crippled consistency of determination making.

Attwell gave the punishment to Chelsea due to the fact that the Manchester United midfielder had some of his hands astir Broja's body, capable to restrict the forward's question and his quality to situation for the ball. But if the referee hadn't seen it clearly, it's improbable to person been a concern which the VAR, Michael Oliver, would person advised arsenic a punishment kick.

We tin look backmost to Southampton vs. Arsenal, with Gabriel Jesus going to crushed aft holding from Caleta-Car, who intially got a interaction connected the ball. It's acold little prolonged than McTominay connected Broja, and portion Arsenal fans whitethorn judge the defender having some arms astir Jesus should effect successful a punishment it truly is simply a determination which is not going to beryllium fixed by the VAR. Again, the transportation determination carries the weight.

We tin besides compare it to the incidental from past weekend, erstwhile West Ham United brag David Moyes accused Southampton's Romain Perraud of producing a "judo move" connected Tomas Soucek. The referee didn't springiness a punishment successful that game, nor did the VAR counsel an overturn.

If you instrumentality each incidental successful isolation, astir would accidental the Perraud foul was a wide penalty, and Broja/Jesus were little certain, but the much evident foul isn't given.

The VAR's relation is purely to measure each idiosyncratic incidental based astir the referee's archetypal decision, alternatively than instrumentality precedents.

Everton 3-0 Crystal Palace

VAR overturn: Gordon onside for extremity

What happened: Everton thought they had scored their 2nd extremity successful the 63rd infinitesimal done Anthony Gordon, but the emblem went up for offside.

VAR decision: Goal awarded.

VAR review: Sometimes an adjunct conscionable gets it severely wrong. It doesn't hap precise often, but we bash spot situations wherever a subordinate is simply a agelong mode onside (or so offside by a ample margin) and the emblem goes up. It's the nonstop crushed wherefore we person the delayed flag, arsenic frustrating arsenic that whitethorn beryllium sometimes.

Gordon was good onside, and the VAR was rapidly capable to counsel that his extremity should stand.

Fulham 3-0 Aston Villa

VAR overturn: Luiz sent disconnected for convulsive behaviour against Mitrovic

What happened: In a crippled played past Thursday, Douglas Luiz and Aleksandar Mitrovic squared up to each different disconnected the shot successful the 61st minute.

VAR decision: Red card, three-game suspension overturned by an autarkic regulatory commission.

VAR review: The commission, made up of 3 erstwhile referees, isn't deciding whether the reddish paper is close oregon not, lone judging the suspension and whether oregon not that should beryllium removed. It came arsenic a immense astonishment that Aston Villa won their entreaty against Luiz's suspension for wrongful dismissal.

The VAR, Paul Tierney, told referee Oliver helium should sojourn the show to reappraisal a reddish paper arsenic a superior missed incident, meaning the officials hadn't seen it. While some players went chest-to-chest against each other, Luiz appears to marque interaction with his caput connected Mitrovic's (whatever you whitethorn deliberation of the Fulham player's reaction.)

PGMOL hasn't yet received the written reasons down the decision, but the lone imaginable mentation is the sheet either didn't consciousness determination was head-to-head contact, oregon that it was accidental owed to the mode they confronted each other. Either way, exonerating Luiz erstwhile determination is nary evident grounds that the officials made a mistake was precise unexpected.

It's uncommon that a red-card entreaty is won erstwhile determination is grounds successful enactment of the referee. Take the VAR dismissal of Everton midfielder Allan against Newcastle past season; it was a precise harsh dismissal for superior foul play which Frank Lampard's squad appealed but were yet unsuccessful.

Information provided by the Premier League and PGMOL was utilized successful this story.