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Sunday, November 8, 2020 at

During and after the game between Crystal Palace and Leeds United (4-1) on Saturday, it was mainly about the rejected goal by Patrick Bamford. The visitors’ striker’s equalizer was canceled on the advice of the VAR because his arm was in an offside position when Bamford was played. Among others, Gary Lineker could not believe the hit from the Whites was dropped due to interference from the VAR.

Bamford pointed to Mateusz Klich where he wanted the ball, then outwitted goalkeeper Vicente Guaita. Yet the party was canceled. The Leeds attacker, like many people in England, is not sure what to think of the VAR. “It’s a very difficult issue,” he said in the English media after the game at Selhurst Park. “If you were to ask me now what the offside rules are, I wouldn’t be able to explain it to you. It’s my job not to be offside, but I just really don’t know anymore.”

In Bamford’s view, the rules regarding the VAR are very unclear to players, managers and supporters. “You can’t score with your arm, can you?” The Englishman wonders aloud. “This really doesn’t make any sense. It’s happening to me now, but I’ve seen this a lot of times now. This destroys the football. You want to see goals and to cancel a goal for this reason is utter idiot. Even the referee. didn’t understand anything about it. If the referees and the players don’t even get it, does it still make sense? “

Many prominent people also spoke out clearly about the Bamford incident on Saturday. “Absurd”, he wrote Match of the Daypresenter Gary Lineker on Twitter. To add somewhat cynically. “I wonder if the people of the VAR gather before the matches for an alcohol-filled lunch to give the football fans an awful afternoon.” Former player Robbie Savage spoke of the ‘worst decision ever’, while analyst Jermaine Jenas could not believe it all. “It’s just insane. He’s getting lost for having long arms and pointing to the space he wanted the ball. It’s ridiculous, we’re so lost in this sport.”