PGMOL under scrutiny over surprising VAR mistake made by The Referee during the Arsenal vs Westham match after the Ball went out of play-PGMOL have confirmed that the goal was given because of non-conclusive evidence to prove if the ball was out of play or not
We’re sorry, Arsenal fans. PGMOL said VAR didn’t work and asked Mikel Arteta not to insult them this time – North London.
PGMOL admitted that VAR wasn’t used when Arsenal lost to West Ham, who were trying to get back to the top of the league. From where they were standing at Stockley Park, it was impossible to tell if the ball stayed in play before Tomas Soucek’s first goal, so the choice to keep playing stood.
After the first half, Arsenal fans insisted that Jarrod Bowen had not kept the ball. But things got worse when former Arsenal striker Konstantinos Mavropanos headed in James Ward-Prowse’s header for a 2-0 win, putting Mikel Arteta’s team in second place, two points behind Liverpool.
Arsenal fans thought it was okay for Arsene Wenger to say “I didn’t see it” every time. But home fans weren’t interested in using the same trick to dismiss VAR.
Was the ball over the line before West Ham scored their first goal? One picture from the high-tech equipment that was partly set up to solve this problem showed that the ball was still in play for a little while longer.
The ball was still there in the next picture, though. Did the ball cross the line, or was it just behind Jarrod Bowen’s thigh? Stockley Park didn’t have enough proof to say for sure, so they had to decide on the pitch. It was okay for Tomas Soucek to get a hard finish from close range.
There are a lot of questions, but the truth is that Arsenal doesn’t really need VAR at all. It might be better for the team in the long run to look into why Oleksandr Zinchenko ran into Gabriel before the goal in the 13th minute and whether he makes too many mistakes like that to keep up a title fight.
We’ll answer this question next week, when the transfer window starts. We need to ask more questions. Eighty-seven percent of the ball went to Arsenal for seven exciting minutes, but no matter how hard they tried to score, even from far away, they were unable to do so.
They need someone who can put the ball in the net often. Gabriel Jesus has 24 goals in 43 Champions League games. But Arsenal has let so many games he has controlled get out of hand in the Premier League because he has only scored three goals.
West Ham doubled their lead in the 56th minute when Mavropanos hit the underside of the bar from a corner kick by Ward-Prowse. The fact that he didn’t celebrate was a credit to the eight forgettable games he had played in that role over four years. At that point, Jesus really made the angry Arsenal fans groan.
At first, Bukayo Saka’s cross went right at Alphonse Areola. Then, Ben White’s even better cross from close range went high over the bar.
