24 hours on from that 98th-minute heartbreak at PSG, there was yet another contentious decision in the Champions League that appears to make a mockery of Tino Livramento’s handball.
In their home clash with Copenhagen on Wednesday night, Bayern Munich were awarded a penalty after the ball hit Peter Ankersen arm before deflecting off his body. Hand THEN body, yet it was reviewed by VAR and overturned.
As The Mail’s Craig Hope says below, this makes VAR’s decision to penalise Livramento all the more staggering, as the ball struck his body BEFORE glancing his arm. Care to explain, UEFA?
❓ Bayern awarded injury-time penalty last night when ball hit arm of Copenhagen defender & then body. VAR review… overturned. No pen.
🇫🇷 Similar to Livramento in many ways, but the fact ball hit NUFC defender’s body first & THEN his arm makes it all the more staggering pic.twitter.com/LUWTz59Ttd
— Craig Hope (@CraigHope_DM) November 30, 2023
To see a similar scenario (only this was more of a handball) result in a different outcome will just rub salt into the wounds for Eddie Howe and his squad after all of their hard work.
It’s the lack of consistency with VAR and their rules that frustrates us most and leaves us all feeling pretty perplexed. The lack of clarity and common sense from UEFA an those applying their rules has to be questioned.
If nothing else, this will certainly spur the players on, as we’ll be wounded animals with a point to prove ahead of games against Man Utd tomorrow and AC Milan the week after next.
PURE DISGRACE HOW LAST NIGHT SAME THING BUT NO PEN A SAY IF U FACE FITS
Stephen P Hewitt(Quote)
What a disgrace for football in general newcastle were robbed of a vital win
Much better than psg
Var should be dismantled and be removed from the football arena
It works well for tennis and rugby but not football
David(Quote)
It’s a kama for Newcastle United. Arsenal fc was rubbed in its favour. Its manager and fans gave credit to VAR then, labelled Arsenal manager as Wolf. They have felt the pains of being rubbed now. They should shut their mouths up.
Richard(Quote)
Shut it Richard, you can’t compare Premier league and champions league games and say its karma, the toon were robbed and arsenal didn’t deserve a win that game.
Richard isacunt(Quote)
Richard your a b…end, we were robbed of a win in Europe maybe from reaching the knockouts. Arsenal was never in a game to win. 🤡
Michael Anderson(Quote)