Schmeichel Faults VAR’s Decision To Disallow West Ham Goal Vs Arsenal

Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel has criticized the Video Assistant Referee’s decision to disallow West Ham’s legitimate goal against Arsenal in Sunday’s Premier League game.

The relegation-threatened Irons appeared to have cancelled out Leandro Trossard’s earlier effort as Callum Wilson struck through a crowd of bodies in a moment of high-drama and tension at the death.

But following a lengthy VAR check, which dragged on for over five minutes, it was ruled that West Ham substitute Pablo had fouled David Raya in the build-up, with replays showing the Portuguese put an arm across the Arsenal goalkeeper at the London Stadium.

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Reacting to the development, Schmeichel speaking on Viaplay, slammed the officials’ inconsistency that contributed to Arsenal’s controversial win over West Ham in the Premier League.

“What really makes me angry is that Arsenal would never be top of the league if that’s a free-kick. That’s how they’ve scored so many goals, by blocking people, holding people, doing all kinds of things,” said Schmeichel.

“And then we get to this point, it takes VAR five minutes, Darren England the VAR, it takes five minutes. He starts it over again and starts it over again and again… that in itself puts so much doubt into that decision that it cannot be a free-kick.

“I think it’s so wrong. I just don’t understand why all of a sudden that’s a free-kick, because it’s not been for any teams all the way throughout the season. All this, it’s just crazy. And that decision today, it’s just so wrong on so many levels.”