EPL Releases VAR Audio of How Referees Decided Onana’s Controversial Moment vs Wolves
- The Premier League has released VAR explanations of controversial moments so far this season
- Fans can hear how the referees decided against a penalty after Andre Onana's clumsy challenge
- Other incidents include Virgil Van Dijk's red card away at Newcastle and Nathan Ake's goal vs Fulham
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The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) continues to be a divisive implementation in football, with its usage sparking outrage on a number of occasions.
The 2023/2024 Premier League season is only four games in and at least six controversial moments have been recorded already.
Man Unitedkeeper, Andre Onana's non-penalty decision against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nathan Ake's goal against Fulham lead the fray.
The Premier League has now released audio from the incidents, which attempts to explain how the officials arrived at certain decisions.
The segment, led by the head of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, Howard Webb is known as Match Officials: Mic'd Up.
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Football Andre Onana's incident vs. WolvesThe audio from Onana's incident makes for amusing listening. In the dying minutes of the clash at Old Trafford, a high ball was swung into the hosts' area.
The Cameroon shot-stopper challenged for the ball and ended up missing it entirely. He instead clattered into Wolves striker, Sasa Kalajdzic.
Kalajdzic and Craig Dawson went up at the same time, but it was the latter who got the ball as Onana slammed into the opposition striker.
How the match officials arrived at their decisionThe centre referee, Simon Hooper gave no penalty and the VAR, Michael Salisbury rubberstamped his decision. Here is
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