{"id":161899,"date":"2019-10-21T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161899"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:44:05","slug":"epl-former-epl-referee-clattenburg-speaks-on-var-calls-during-man-utd-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161899","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Former EPL referee, Clattenburg speaks on VAR calls during Man Utd vs Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EPL-Former-EPL-referee-Clattenburg-speaks-on-VAR-calls-during-Man-Utd-vs-Liverpool.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Premier League referee, Mark Clattenburg, has given his opinion on some of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decisions, made during Manchester United\u2019s 1-1 draw with Liverpool on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>United took the lead in the first half through Marcus Rashford, after Divock Origi appeared to have been fouled in the build up.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds levelled with less than 10 minutes left, after Adam Lallana ghosted past Ashley Young to tap in.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Daily Mail, Clattenburg commented on some of the flashpoints of the game at Old Trafford, including a handball incident involving Sadio Mane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould VAR have ruled out Manchester United\u2019s opener? No.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtocol was followed and it was right to let Marcus Rashford\u2019s goal stand. Divock Origi went down under a challenge from Victor Lindelof and referee Martin Atkinson was in a perfect position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw the incident clearly and allowed play to continue. It is debatable if Origi was fouled, and I think Atkinson made the right call by playing on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVAR then stood by the original decision of their official on the ground. Liverpool then thought they\u2019d equalised before the break, only for VAR to intervene again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one was straightforward. Television replays showed the ball clearly hit the arm of Sadio Mane in the build-up to the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gained an advantage from it, so VAR was right to rule it out,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League referee, Mark Clattenburg, has given his opinion on some of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decisions, made during Manchester United\u2019s 1-1 draw with Liverpool on Sunday. United took the lead in the first half through Marcus Rashford, after Divock Origi appeared to have been fouled in the build up. The Reds levelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161900,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,9512,7847],"class_list":["post-161899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-epl","tag-var"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161899","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=161899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}