Arsenal has dropped points in five league matches this season and it could have been more positive outcomes if VAR was not involved.
Mikel Arteta’s side became victims of the technology again the weekend when Ivan Toney’s goal was incorrectly allowed to stand to earn Brentford a 1-1 draw against the Gunners.
A report on The Sun has now detailed how the Gunners have suffered from VAR decisions in every game they have not won.
In the draw against Newcastle United, VAR failed to give the Gunners a penalty when Gabriel Magalhaes was clearly fouled by Dan Burn.
Duje Caleta-Car dragged Gabriel Jesus back in our game against Southampton, which was a clear penalty, but it wasn’t given and the game ended 1-1.
VAR deemed Martin Odegaard to have fouled Christian Eriksen in the build-up to our disallowed goal against Manchester United and we lost that game.
Neal Maupay fouled Gabriel Magalhaes in the Everton box in our 1-0 loss to the Toffees, but VAR never gave the foul.
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This hasn’t been a good season for us regarding VAR decisions, but we must start playing to win, even if the technology goes against us by scoring more goals.
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I wonder if city are saying the same thing?
The equaliser United scored against them, eventually saw 3 points dropped and that would see them above us in the league.
It has always been said that refereeing decisions balance themselves out over a season and I wonder why the article doesn’t PRAISE var for reviewing and correctly allowing our third goal against united, as that was given BECAUSE of var being used correctly?
Bad headline – VAR didn’t do that, the officials did.
I actually listed these here the other day and someone added in the Southampton one. Perhaps the Sun should be giving credit to JA, not the other way round? 😉
The stats all add to the conspiracy theory – that there’s some individuals who are less neutral that officials need to be.
When you also note that it’s the same people finding against Arsenal, it does nothing to make these ideas go away.
What VAR is doing is showing up the problem and leaving them nowhere to hide. No more “Perhaps the ref was unsighted”, now they have no excuses – because of VAR.
If there is bias (conscious or unconscious) or even corruption… at least now we’re in a position to see it. Only then can we do something about it.
** Shold’ve read:
“less neutral *than* officials need to be”
Perfect response!!
Even Brighton’s third goal vs Arsenal was better than the one allowed for Brenford’s game against Arsenal.
Next time plse don’t allow it to happen cos it breaks the moral of both players and fans
Nothing wrong with VAR, it’s the utilisation of it that’s wrong and the officials using it.
You can’t do that. It’s all out of context – how many decisions have gone in our favour in games we’ve won? And as others mentioned, how many decisions have gone against our rivals in games they’ve lost or drawn? It seems many don’t even care to think about that. If you aren’t willing even try to be objective, it’s a bit rich to accuse anyone else of bias if you think about it
Looking at it from one side like this encourages conspiracy theory and victim mentality.
The only one I’m aware of is the one in the City-Utd game.
I believe there were 4 others before this weekend, since PGMOL listed 6 and apologised for them.
The thing is, I understood that no other team was involved in more than one of these errors – the only team that’s been affected by more than one such incident is Arsenal.
And our count now stands at 4. And the same (2?) people were involved.
I think that’s why people are beginning to smell a rat.
Don’t think it’s impossible! Juventus has been proven to have been match fixing in the past, now they’re facing another bunch of fincial charges, other clubs breaking FFP rules etc… stuff happens.
We may call it a “conspiracy theory”, but that only means that it’s a theory that there may be a conspiracy involving human actors rather than a series of random events – such a theory could be wrong or right.
The thing about at theory is that it has to fit the known facts. From what I know right now, this theory seems to pass that test.
*financial charges