When Chelsea scored their equalising objective , there was a good delay as VAR checked it.
The query was whether or not the offside Marc Guiu had obtained a contact on the ball because it went by way of to Marc Cucurella. Ultimately the video ref determined there hadn’t been, and the objective stood.
As they have an inclination to do today, the Premier League put out a press release about why they’d not given the objective:
“The referee’s name of objective was checked and confirmed by the VAR as there was no factual proof that Guiu made contact with the ball within the build-up, due to this fact there was no offside offence,” they wrote on Twitter.
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The referee’s name of objective was checked and confirmed by the VAR as there was no factual proof that Guiu made contact with the ball within the build-up, due to this fact there was no offside offence.
Chelsea get away with one after Colwill foul
However as Gary Neville identified at some size on commentary for Sky Sports activities, there was truly a much better motive to rule out the objective – the foul from Levi Colwill on Jarrod Bowen because the striker raced again to defend.
“I truly thought there was a foul on Bowen loads earlier within the transfer,” Neville stated.
“I believe it was a foul, take a look at that, Colwill stepping throughout Bowen. I believe it’s thought of to be too far again however I believe that’s an apparent foul. I believed so on the time. The Bowen foul must be noticed.
“I might be livid if I used to be West Ham. I believe the referee and assistant referee are each trying on the recreation from that aspect, they need to spot that. Colwill simply goes and takes him out so he can’t get in direction of [goalkeeper Filip] Jorgensen.”
He then went on for some time about “how far again” the referee and VAR might take into account when deciding whether or not a foul had influenced a objective straight sufficient to be dominated out.
We obtained away with one right here, however we’ve had our fair proportion of dangerous selections,