VAR Lee Mason FORGOT to draw offside lines when reviewing Ivan Toney’s controversial equaliser
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Arsenal’s fury as VAR emerges Lee Mason FORGOT to draw offside lines when reviewing Ivan Toney’s goal for Brentford at the Emirates in a serious mistake that could affect the title race
- Brentford equalized thanks to an Ivan Toney to score a point against Arsenal
- The goal was marked for offside before finally being awarded by VAR
- However, VAR official Lee Mason forgot to draw the offside lines when checking
Video referee Lee Mason forgot to draw offside lines on Brentford’s controversial equalizing goal in a mistake that could have a huge impact on Arsenal’s fight for the Premier League title.
Christian Norgaard was in an offside position when he crossed for Ivan Toney and the goal would have been disallowed if VAR lines had been drawn.
A win for Arsenal would have left them eight points clear at the top of the Premier League, but the draw means Man City will knock them out of the top if they win today and beat the Gunners on Wednesday night.
A furious Mikel Arteta thought the goal should have been disallowed due to an incident earlier in the build-up when Ethan Pinnock’s offside grappled with Gabriel as the decisive free-kick went into the box, but after a long delay it was decided not to. had been interfering with the game.
“I looked back and he’s offside,” Arteta said. Have they explained why it was not allowed? No. It’s frustrating, but they’ll probably give an explanation later in the week. Today we don’t have one.
Mikel Arteta believed a Brentford player was offside when the original free kick was taken
However, it was actually Christian Norgaard who was sidelined later in the play before Toney scored.
It took Mason forever to decide that Pinnock wasn’t interfering with the game, but then he quickly brushed aside the key incident and revisited it without drawing the crucial VAR lines.
Had he done so, Norgaard would have been ruled offside and Toney’s 74th-minute goal would have been disallowed.
“Ivan puts the ball in the net and the VAR Lee Mason obviously goes through the controls,” said Chris Foy, the Mail on Sunday referee expert and PGMOL representative, who was at the Match Center at Stockley Park on Saturday.
‘VAR was looking to see if there was an offside and if Ethan Pinnock had blocked Gabriel in preparation. He looked at the possible foul and decided that there had been none and therefore referee Peter Bankes had not made a clear and obvious mistake.
“However, in the build-up to the goal, Christian Norgaard, whose cross Toney heads in, is in an offside position.
“However, the truth is that the VAR did not fully investigate with the lines. The lines just didn’t go down. And that counts as human error. If the lines had fallen, the goal would have been disallowed for offside.
It was not a great day for VAR. Human error was also cited as the reason why Brighton saw a goal disallowed for offside in their 1–1 draw at Crystal Palace.
Pervis Estupinan put Brighton ahead only to have his effort disallowed. However, VAR drew the offside lines on the wrong Palace player to mark the offside line.
Arteta was furious and Toney’s goal could have a big impact on this season’s title race.
