The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents Panel has narrowly voted that Liverpool weren’t wrongly denied a penalty within the 0-0 draw at Arsenal earlier this month.
Florian Wirtz went down beneath a problem from Leandro Trossard within the forty eighth minute, however referee Anthony Taylor waved away the spot-kick claims.
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The VAR, John Brooks, opted to not intervene.
It was a split vote for the on-field resolution, 3-2, that Taylor was appropriate to not level to the spot. The non-VAR intervention was supported 4-1.
The panel stated: “Wirtz knocks the ball a long way from him and Trossard plants his foot into the space ahead of the Liverpool attacker. The on-field call of no penalty was supported.”
Two panellists felt that “Trossard challenged the man and not the ball” and it ought to have been awarded by the referee.