Three more VAR errors confirmed by Premier League panel
Football issues correspondent Published Three more video assistant referee errors have been confirmed by the Premier League's Key Match Incidents panel, taking the total this seaso
Football issues correspondent Published Three more video assistant referee errors have been confirmed by the Premier League's Key Match Incidents panel, taking the total this season to 23. The panel has recorded three errors involving penalties, two of which should have been awarded for holding offences.
Key points
- Everton , the only team not to get a VAR intervention in their favour this season, were wrongly denied a spot-kick against Manchester City .
- David Moyes' side led 3-2 at Hill Dickinson Stadium when, on a corner, Bernardo Silva held back Toffees midfielder Merlin Rohl - unseen by referee Michael Oliver.
- The VAR Paul Howard decided the holding had taken place before the corner was taken, so he could not intervene to award a penalty.
- "If that doesn't get given as a penalty, then it's an absolute free-for-all from now on," Moyes said after the game.
- All five members of the KMI panel agreed with Moyes, saying "there is a clear, sustained holding offence which continues as the corner is taken and the ball comes into play".
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