There has been a VAR-related matter in pretty much every Premier League game this season.
Manchester United were on the wrong side of the technology against Tottenham Hotspur in this weekend’s match.
Edinson Cavani started the game with a great volley with the help of Paul Pogba yet that wonderful goal was chalked off shockingly. Scott McTominay’s hand brushed Heung-Min Son’s face during the build-up, starting a humiliating eruption from the Spurs forward.
VAR authorities asked the on-field ref to visit the screen and he pronounced Scott McTominay to be the blameworthy party and precluded Cavani’s goal. To add to United’s aggravation, Son gave Spurs the lead only five minutes after the controversy.
The Red Devils, at last, returned to dominate the match 3-1 with the assistance of objectives from Fred, Cavani, and Mason Greenwood. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has now uncovered that his staff is purposefully making wrong choices in preparation games to set up the group for calls that go against them in practice matches.
As reported by Goal, Solksjaer said: “Everybody knows that this group of players has so much footballing talent, but last weekend they really showed us what their mentality is all about. It would have been so easy to lose focus after having a brilliant goal from Edi disallowed, especially when we then fell behind so quickly, but the lads regrouped, kept calm, and really showed their character by dominating the second half. How you react when decisions don’t go your way is a test that is just part of football. We’ve frequently made deliberately bad refereeing decisions during training in order to remind the players that these things happen. Sometimes we do honestly get them wrong anyway, so we know what a hard job it is – and I was really pleased to see them coming together in the face of adversity and reacting the right way.”
This is unquestionably a remarkable method to set up the players. Since the stakes are so high on a matchday and feelings can bamboozle everybody, it will be fascinating to perceive how viable the procedure is.
