Mikel Arteta says how everyone is feeling about Liverpool VAR controversy

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admits the pressure is ramping up on Premier League officials to implement VAR correctly. But the Spaniard does not think the answers are currently available to solve the problems following Saturday’s debacle at Tottenham.

VAR suffered perhaps its worst day since its inception in the Premier League at the weekend. Officials failed to award a Luis Diaz goal despite it being deemed that he was onside.

Officials in the VAR room thought the goal had been given on field and simply replied ‘Check complete’ after drawing the offside lines. But they had been mistaken because Diaz was flagged and once Spurs had taken the free kick, there was no going back.

Liverpool have released a lengthy statement on the incident and have also requested for audio between the officials to be released. That request is set to be accepted at some point this week while a PGMOL investigation continues.

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Arsenal have had their fair share of VAR shockers, none bigger than in the match against Brentford in February where Lee Mason failed to draw the offside lines on Ivan Toney’s 74th-minute equaliser. Mason left his role by mutual consent six days later.

Arteta was fuming at that incident and has now had his say on Saturday’s. He says the performance of VAR has not lived up to the standards expected from a meeting held before the season started.

He said: “We had some big discussions before the start of the season and everyone had the right intentions to improve the game and find the best way to take it forward. But it’s true that with everything that already happened this season, not just in the Premier League but in other countries as well, the pressure is increasing.

“It’s not easy for them. It’s not easy for any club or any manager because that really affects part of the season or a result and that is a dangerous thing to do.”

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Arteta has sympathy for Liverpool, who lost the game 2-1 thanks to a late Joel Matip own goal. And he does not think a solution to the VAR problem as a whole is close.

He added: “For sure [I have sympathy], you know at the end you want to get what you deserve. You want to minimise errors that you cannot control away from the work and the job that you do on a daily basis.

“Everybody is trying to have a really clean and honest game but in the end you have to earn the right to win it and play in the conditions that the rules allow. When that doesn’t happen it’s extremely frustrating.

“When they explain all the processes of what they’re trying to do it sounds really logical, but in the heat when you’re talking about millimetres and interpretation of other things like the frames of the camera it’s very, very different. It’s a shame that it’s happening but at the moment we haven’t got the right answers I think.”

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