{"id":163525,"date":"2019-10-28T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163525"},"modified":"2019-10-28T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T07:05:21","slug":"epl-solskjaer-admits-var-wrong-to-give-man-utd-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163525","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Solskjaer admits VAR wrong to give Man Utd penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EPL-Solskjaer-singles-out-one-Man-Utd-player-after-1-1-draw-with-Liverpool.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has disagreed with VAR\u2019s decision, to award his side the first of their two penalties in a 3-1 victory over Norwich on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>United won thanks to goals from Scott McTominay, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer\u2019s men could have scored more, but goalkeeper Tim Krul saved two spot kicks.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial call came just before the half-hour mark, when Ben Godfrey tangled with United winger Daniel James and referee Stuart Attwell initially seeing no foul.<\/p>\n<p>However, after a lengthy VAR intervention, he changed his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Krul stepped up and saved Rashford\u2019s effort from 12 yards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVAR is there to help but when it takes ages like the first penalty, it is not a clean and obvious error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it took that long, it is a signal that it should not have been,\u201d Solskjaer said after the game.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has disagreed with VAR\u2019s decision, to award his side the first of their two penalties in a 3-1 victory over Norwich on Sunday. United won thanks to goals from Scott McTominay, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial. Solskjaer\u2019s men could have scored more, but goalkeeper Tim Krul saved two spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161909,"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":[8922,10580,7847],"class_list":["post-163525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-united","tag-solksaer","tag-var"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163525","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=163525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}