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Sat 03 September 2022 | 17:52

Moyes: VAR decision was scandalous; Mendy faked his injury

West Ham manager David Moyes criticised the referee following their 2-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea.

Chelsea

snatched victory away from

West Ham United

at Stamford Bridge as Thomas Tuchel's side came back from behind to secure a crucial 2-1 victory.

Maxwel Cornet

scored for the visitors late in the game but the referee rule out the goal for a foul on the goalkeeper.

David Moyes after the game critisiced the referee and said he is he has lost faith in the refereeing in the game.

"It's an unbelievable decision which went against us,"

Moyes told Sky Sports.

"Scandalous and absolutely rotten.

"The goalkeeper comes to take it and fumbles it out of his hands. Then he acted as if it was a shoulder injury. I'm amazed that VAR sent the referee to the screen. It was a ridiculously bad decision.

"Today there is no excuse for that not to be a goal, none whatsoever. The sad thing is that this is the level of our elite refereeing at the moment.

"They've got new people in charge who are trying to do something. I've lost faith in them today in the people who are putting up for VAR. After watching it, I can't see how the goal was not given.

"The referees said they were going to cut back on soft challenges and that was unbelievably soft.

"Referees can make mistakes. I do not see that in a million years. I'm more embarrassed for the guy in VAR than the referee because that's telling me someone who doesn't understand football and shouldn't be near the game if that is enough to put someone near the screen.”

"The goalkeeper tried to do the same thing with the first goal as well,"

said Moyes.

"He faked a shoulder injury. It didn't stop him from playing the last 15 minutes or however long there was after that.

"Jarrod said he never touched the goalkeeper at all [for the second goal]. You can see it, he tries to jump him and straddle him. If there's anything there's just a trailing foot. The goalkeeper had already mishandled the ball and it moved four or five six yards and he couldn't recover."

Thomas Tuchel believes It was a clear foul on the goalkeeper. In his press conference, he said:

"There's a reason it went in our favor. I don't know if everyone shares the opinion - it's a foul. The goal that we conceded in very similar in the build-up to the situation at Tottenham.

"The second corner should never have been a corner. When the shot came from Bowen and we had the shot from Edu, it was a clear offside position from Antonio.

"I don't know how [it can be where] you can foul when you're in an offside position against a goalkeeper and get a corner. That was the build-up to the first corner, it was similar to against Tottenham but I stop talking."


source: SportMob



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