What Van Dijk got away with in Liverpool game will have Arsenal fans raging
Fulham achieved a fair result against Liverpool on Sunday, though it was entirely possible the Reds could have stolen a draw had events transpired against them. The failure to award a penalty against either Virgil van Dijk or Caoimhin Kelleher for clear offences in the 18-yard box had Marco Silva visibly upset in the technical […] The post What Van Dijk got away with in Liverpool game will have Arsenal fans raging appeared first on Just Arsenal News.
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Fulham achieved a fair result against Liverpool on Sunday, though it was entirely possible the Reds could have stolen a draw had events transpired against them.
The failure to award a penalty against either Virgil van Dijk or Caoimhin Kelleher for clear offences in the 18-yard box had Marco Silva visibly upset in the technical area.
One might also imagine that Arsenal fans will be equally frustrated by the quality of officiating on display given a soft penalty call cost them three points at the weekend.
The Gunners sit 11 points behind Arne Slot’s Liverpool side in second place in the Premier League table.
Van Dijk or Kelleher should have been penalised
Whilst there has to be an acceptance of some room for error in officiating, much as the same fans accept player errors, the horrendous lack of consistency can’t be swept under the rug.
Keith Hackett, quite rightly, called out the VAR team supporting referee Chris Kavanagh for failing to encourage the on-pitch official to review two instances of foul play.
The former PGMOL chief spotted Kelleher bring down Andreas Pereira before Virgil van Dijk, shortly after, unfairly impeded Rodrigo Muniz.
“Where is [Matt] Donohue, the VAR, looking? Because there’s two offences that both required a penalty-kick decision. Goalkeeper and Van Dijk,” the Englishman told Football Insider.
“Both guilty of offences inside the penalty area. Beyond belief.”
