Tottenham boss Antonio Conte was indignant on the determination by VAR to rule out Harry Kane’s stoppage-time strike in opposition to Sporting Lisbon and accused the expertise of being dishonest in opposition to his staff.
Kane fired house within the fifth minute of added time to spark wild celebrations with the hosts believing the hassle had despatched them by to the final 16 of the Champions League.
Dutch official Pol van Boekel, who was in control of VAR, dominated Kane had been forward of the ball when Emerson Royal’s header hit Flavio Nazinho and ricocheted into the trail of the striker, who smashed in with aplomb to briefly make the rating 2-1.
Sporting gamers and workers celebrated the choice to rule out the purpose, which meant Marcus Edwards’ first-half strike – cancelled out by Rodrigo Bentancur’s 81st-minute header – left all 4 groups in Group D with an opportunity of constructing the knockout stage going into the final recreation.
“I think there are moments that maybe you can be a bit intelligent to understand you have just disallowed a regular goal because the goal was regular. The ball is in front of Kane,” Conte insisted in his press convention earlier than he walked out after one query.
“And then the VAR. I repeat you know I don’t comment on referee decisions but the VAR, this season, I don’t know why between Premier League and Champions League, we are not so lucky.
“I don’t know why until now we are also the only team who repeated the penalty and every penalty I go to see, if the keeper move on line, I see a lot of the time. I want to see repetition of a penalty in Premier League.
“I think we are not so lucky with VAR but I think they create big damage. I would like to see if this type of decision you can take with a top team, in an important game, yeah I would like to see if VAR is so brave to take this decision.
“I repeat this unfair decision because the ball is in front of Kane. Sorry, but I am really upset because sometimes you can accept this situation and sometimes I think it is not good because I don’t see honesty in this type of situation and when I see this I become really, really upset.”
Away from the dramatic finale, it was one other match the place Tottenham had didn’t put collectively a whole 90-minute show with Edwards giving the guests a deserved half-time lead.
The ex-Spurs youth-team participant raced previous Eric Dier and exchanged passes with Paulinho earlier than he rifled into the underside nook from 25 yards after 22 minutes.
Conte’s aspect improved after the break with Dier failing to benefit from three alternatives whereas Matt Doherty and Son Heung-min examined Antonio Adan.
But Sporting additionally had their probabilities with substitute Arthur Gomes firing extensive with the vast majority of the purpose gaping minutes earlier than Bentancur headed house Ivan Perisic’s nook.
It means Tottenham want some extent at Marseille on Tuesday to qualify for the final 16 and Conte referred to as on the membership to talk to the related individuals over the VAR determination.
He added: “For the game we played first half with low intensity and Sporting deserve to stay 1-0 up and at the end of the game after our second half I think we deserved to get three points.
“Now for this decision we have to wait to the last game against Marseille and I repeat this decision, yeah it creates big damage.
“I hope the club understands this and then in the right situation they also speak with the people they have to speak because otherwise it is only the manager to speak.
“I think the club has to be strong because I repeat this situation creates big, big damage. Now we don’t know what happen next week. If we go out, then I want to see.”
Sporting boss Ruben Amorim had been crestfallen after watching Kane fireplace house however after VAR had intervened he caught up for the expertise.
“I like it because it is fair, most of the time,” he mentioned.
“I know there are a lot of problems sometimes because they are hard decisions but like I said I didn’t see the footage. For me it was very good. For Antonio Conte it was not very good but it is football and it is good to improve football. For the fans, it is sometimes not so good but I think it is fair.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk