Juventus striker Moise Kean thought he had scored a splendid solo goal against Hellas Verona, only to see it ruled out for the tightest of offside calls, but the VAR caused some confusion over why it had been disallowed.
It was still 0-0 when Kean shrugged off a defender, nutmegged another and drilled into the near bottom corner from outside the box.
Replays showed that the finish took a big deflection off Dusan Vlahovic’s knee to wrong-foot Lorenzo Montipò.
When the message came down from the VAR booth, referee Ermanno Feliciani told the players “Vlahovic was offside” and made the gesture to disallow the goal.
However, when the official computer-generated image using semi-automatic offside was released to the television coverage, it showed Kean was offside at the start of the move by essentially just his heel.
This caused confusion, as it was not clear whether the goal was disallowed for the Kean position or Vlahovic.
On the replay, Vlahovic did not appear to be offside when hit by the Kean effort, so if not for those millimetres, Kean’s goal would’ve stood.
It means the message that got through to the referee was inaccurate or he misunderstood what they were referring to.
That is ridiculous. VAR should have margin of error. Heck, even it was semi-automatic and still need human intervention.
Ma nella giocata incriminata viene visto solo il tacchetti di Vlaovhic ma allargando la scena si vede la maglia numero 5 ( Faraoni ) che davanti a tutti, perché non è stato preso in considerazione?