{"id":144771,"date":"2019-08-19T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144771"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:26:04","slug":"epl-what-de-bruyne-said-after-var-denied-man-city-victory-over-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144771","title":{"rendered":"EPL: What De Bruyne said after VAR denied Man City victory over Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester City midfielder, Kevin De Bruyne, has admitted he is struggling to understand the rule change on handball.<\/p>\n

De Bruyne was speaking after Gabriel Jesus\u2019 dramatic stoppage-time effort, was disallowed by Video Assistant Referee (VAR) for handball against Aymeric Laporte.<\/p>\n

The Belgian is surprised that it would not have been a penalty to City, had a Tottenham player accidentally handled the ball as Laporte did.<\/p>\n

According to Law 12, VAR ruled out Jesus\u2019 effort because Laporte\u2019s handball directly led to a goal, even though it was unintentional.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m old fashioned and I\u2019m not the biggest pro-VAR.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told after the game that if it had hit a Tottenham arm, it wouldn\u2019t have been a penalty, so I don\u2019t understand it. I don\u2019t understand it at all. It should be debated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew it was being reviewed. Every goal is reviewed. When the referee did the disallowed goal sign, I didn\u2019t know why, Tottenham didn\u2019t know why,\u201d De Bruyne said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City midfielder, Kevin De Bruyne, has admitted he is struggling to understand the rule change on handball. De Bruyne was speaking after Gabriel Jesus\u2019 dramatic stoppage-time effort, was disallowed by Video Assistant Referee (VAR) for handball against Aymeric Laporte. The Belgian is surprised that it would not have been a penalty to City, had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[13018,9512,4368,7847],"class_list":["post-144771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-de","tag-epl","tag-manchester-city","tag-var"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}