PGMOL chief offers explanation for Andre Onana VAR mistake against Wolves

PGMOL chief Howard Webb has admitted VAR should have recommended a review of the collision between Andre Onana and Sasa Kalajdzic in Manchester United's 1-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on the opening weekend of the season.

On what was Onana's debut, United were 1-0 up heading into the dying embers when the goalkeeper collided with Kalajdzic, making no contact with the ball and instead wiping out the Wolves striker.

On-field referee Simon Hooper did not award a penalty and, after a VAR check, a goal kick was awarded as the video official declined to even suggest a review of the decision.

PGMOL immediately apologised for not highlighting the issue during the game, which ended 1-0 in United's favour, and now Webb has offered further insight into the decision.

«I think from the outset I want to say that should have led to an intervention by VAR,» Webb told the Premier League's . «We should have seen a video review being recommended and the referee should have gone to the screen. I’m confident he would have seen the images that we’ve seen and would have awarded a penalty.

»We hear the VAR in this circumstance going through the checking phase once the penalty has not been awarded and he is describing what he has seen – Onana coming out and contact with the Wolves player, Kalajdzic.

"[The VAR] starts to go down the road, I believe, towards recommending a video review, but then he overthinks it a little bit. Sometimes the VARs can do that. They’re trying to identify what the game would expect in terms of what is and isn’t a clear and obvious error.

«And when he sees these two players come together, he knows that sometimes that can happen and it’s not a foul. In this case quite interestingly neither Onana nor Kalajdzic plays the