Fulham And Wolves Wronged By Var - Panel

The video adjunct referee made 2 mistakes successful nan astir caller information of Premier League fixtures, says nan Key Match Incidents panel.

Josh King's extremity for Fulham successful nan nonaccomplishment astatine Chelsea was ruled retired and Wolves were not awarded a punishment successful their conclusion by Everton, some connected 30 August.

Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) main refereeing serviceman Howard Webb said past week that nan determination to disallow King's extremity was a "misjudgement".

King scored aft 22 minutes, only for it to beryllium chalked disconnected pursuing a lengthy VAR reappraisal for a foul by Rodrigo Muniz successful nan build-up.

Muniz was deemed to person stepped connected nan ft of Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah adjacent nan halfway line.

The panel, which reviews nan large refereeing decisions successful nan Premier League each week, agreed that VAR Michael Salisbury was incorrect to intervene, pinch referee Rob Jones disallowing nan goal.

The sheet wrote: "The sheet unanimously supported nan original on-field telephone to let play to proceed and grant nan goal."

It said Wolves should person been awarded a punishment for Iliman Ndiaye's foul connected Hugo Bueno successful nan 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Everton.

Three of nan 5 members of nan sheet said VAR Craig Pawson's determination not to intervene was a mistake.

"The interaction made is sloppy and nan sheet felt a punishment should person been awarded and that VAR should person intervened connected nan ground it was a clear and evident correction successful not penalising nan foul," nan sheet wrote.

Wolves are without a constituent astatine nan bottommost of nan table.

Chelsea beat Fulham 2-0 acknowledgment to Joao Pedro's header and Enzo Fernandez's penalty, some of which came aft King's extremity was ruled out.

Fulham are without a triumph aft 3 convention games, and head Marco Silva said aft nan game: "How you disallow a extremity for illustration that is unbelievable.

"VAR is not present to re-referee nan game."

Salisbury was stood down arsenic VAR for Liverpool's triumph complete Arsenal nan pursuing day.

The sheet ruled that location were 18 VAR errors past season, pinch nan mostly coming from missed interventions. Only 2 resulted successful disallowed goals.

The independent sheet is made up of 3 erstwhile players aliases coaches, 1 Premier League typical and 1 from nan PGMOL board.

It looked astatine 35 incidents successful crippled week 3 and said nan correct result was reached successful 33, including erstwhile VAR intervened.