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Brentford Equaliser At Arsenal Not Properly Checked By VAR Officials

The body in charge of refereeing in the Premier League confessed on Sunday that Brentford's equalising goal in a 1-1 draw at Premier League leaders Arsenal was not appropriately looked for offside by the VAR authorities. The Gunners dropped what could be 2 huge factors in the title race when Ivan Toney headed in after a scramble inside the Arsenal area. An extensive VAR check took place after the goal to examine whether Ethan Pinnock was offside and also disrupting play earlier in the relocation.

However VAR officials then missed the fact Christian Norgaard remained in an offside position when he hooked the round across for Toney to equalise.

Brentford's goal was not the only controversy of a negative Saturday for officiating in the Premier League.

Brighton had a goal mistakenly dismissed in their 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace.

Pervis Estupinan's strike was prohibited after a VAR evaluation regarded the Ecuadorian to be offside.

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However, the lines attracted by the VAR official to identify the offside utilized the wrong Palace defender with Marc Guehi backed up James Tomkins.

"PGMOL can verify its Chief Refereeing Officer Howard Webb has actually gotten in touch with both Arsenal as well as Brighton & Hove Albion to recognize and also discuss the significant mistakes in the VAR procedure in their particular Premier League components on Saturday," said a declaration released by PGMOL.

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"Both cases, which was because of human mistake and related to the evaluation of offside scenarios, are being completely examined by PGMOL."

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