EPL: Arsenal goalkeeper blasts lack of VAR use during defeat to Man City

Arsenal goalkeeper, Aaron Ramsdale, was angered by the lack of VAR use during defeat to Manchester City.

The Gunners had a penalty claim turned down in the first half of Saturday’s game at Emirates Stadium as Martin Odegaard was caught by City goalkeeper Ederson. Referee Stuart Attwell chose not to look at the monitor on that occasion.

In the second half City were given a spot-kick as Granit Xhaka clashed with Bernardo Silva, with Attwell looking at the monitor prior to making his decision.

Ramsdale told BT Sport: “I am basing it on both penalties – the inconsistency of going to the screen, the referee might have ruled it out straight away when he looked at it. But it is the fact he went to look at it.

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“Both in real time he said no penalty, but only gets told to look at one. Theirs was soft for me but he gets told to look and has given it.

“I am at the other end of the pitch for our penalty shout. The goalkeeper comes out with his foot and he either catches him or the ball. The Bernardo one, he stood him up and it got given. Penalties are penalties, but for us it is getting told to look at the screen.

“Both penalties, I don’t know why the referee is told to see one and not the other. It is there for a reason, go and use it. The whole point is to help the game out, in real time it didn’t look like one and slow it down on a screen and it is given.”