{"id":30179,"date":"2026-05-29T14:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/every-var-error-in-2025-26-premier-league-how-arsenal-escaped-red-cards-and-penalties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:29:57","slug":"every-var-error-in-2025-26-premier-league-how-arsenal-escaped-red-cards-and-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/every-var-error-in-2025-26-premier-league-how-arsenal-escaped-red-cards-and-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Every VAR error in 2025-26 Premier League: How Arsenal escaped red cards and penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">11. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brentford<\/a> 0-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a>: Romero escapes red<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Igor Thiago ran on to a ball over the top in the 56th minute, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> defender Cristian Romero making a wild swipe to try to intercept. Romero made no contact on the ball and should have been sent off for Dogso.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 2-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 2-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">12. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wolves<\/a> 3-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a>: Holding penalty against Krejci<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ladislav Krejci held back Tomas Soucek in the 73rd minute and a penalty should have been awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 2-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">13. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a> 1-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a>: Foul by Jimenez on Le Fee<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Jimenez bundled Enzo Le Fee to the ground in the third minute and a spot-kick should have been given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">14: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Leeds<\/a> 0-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a>: Holding by O&#8217;Nien on Struijk<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another missed holding penalty after Luke O&#8217;Nien held back Pascal Struijk in the 16th minute, placing an arm around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Leeds<\/a> player&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a> 0-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a>: Martinelli pulls down Wieffer <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gabriel Martinelli, who was was not looking at the ball, held onto Mats Wieffer as he moved into the area and prevented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a> player from challenging for the ball. A spot-kick should have been awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 2-3<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">16. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Everton<\/a>: Handball by Fernandes<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mateus Fernandes touched the ball with his hand in a tussle with Thierno Barry in the 84th minute, and a penalty should have been given.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">17: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brentford<\/a> 3-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a>: Challenge by Lewis-Potter on Soucek<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keane Lewis-Potter held Soucek in a clear non-footballing action which impacted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> player&#8217;s movement and this should also have been a penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">18. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a> 3-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/crystal-palace\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Crystal Palace<\/a>: Challenge by Henderson on Senesi<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A penalty was awarded on field but the contact by Dean Henderson on Marcos Senesi was minimal and it should have been overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Everton<\/a> 3-3 Man City: Holding by Silva on Rohl<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A clear, sustained holding offence by Bernardo Silva on Merlin Rohl which continued after a corner had been taken, so it should have been a penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a> 1-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burnley<\/a>: Tackle by Havertz on Ugochukwu<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kai Havertz made a lunging tackle from behind on Lesley Ugochukwu, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a> player only shown a yellow card. This should have been upgraded to red.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">On-field vote:<\/b> 0-5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">VAR vote:<\/b> 1-4<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgzl2gmvrzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11. Brentford 0-0 Tottenham: Romero escapes red Igor Thiago ran on to a ball over the top in the 56th minute, with Tottenham defender Cristian Romero making a wild swipe to try to intercept. Romero made no contact on the ball and should have been sent off for Dogso. On-field vote: 2-3 VAR vote: 2-3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30181,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions\/30181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}