{"id":457517,"date":"2025-09-28T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457517\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:11:14","slug":"new-man-united-var-verdict-given-as-premier-league-called-out-over-brentford-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457517\/","title":{"rendered":"New Man United VAR verdict given as Premier League called out over Brentford decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United were involved in VAR controversy during their defeat to Brentford as Nathan Collins avoided a red card despite denying a goalscoring opportunity for Bryan Mbeumo\"CraigDespite an intervention from VAR, Brentford were denied a red card against Man United.(Image: Photo by Catherine Ivill – AMA\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The explanation for Nathan Collins’ non-red card against Manchester United was given a potentially embarrassing update following their 3-1 defeat to Brentford. Ruben Amorim’s side failed to make it back-to-back wins, giving themselves a mountain to climb in the capital as Bruno Fernandes missed a second-half penalty.<\/p>\n

It was the manner in which the Bees conceded the spot-kick<\/a> which has sparked uproar. Matheus Cunha <\/a>played it across to Bryan Mbeumo,<\/a> with a clear sight of goal, before he was hauled down in the penalty area by Collins.<\/p>\n

The penalty was given and the Republic of Ireland international was shown a yellow card for the action of pulling the Cameroon forward but following an explanation from the Premier League<\/a> Match Centre X account, a community note has emerged on the tweet.<\/p>\n

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\"AuthorSteven Railston<\/p>\n

Initially, the account provided the reasoning why Collins avoided a sending off, it read: “The referee\u2019s call of penalty was checked and confirmed by VAR \u2013 with Collins deemed to pulled Mbeumo back.<\/p>\n

“VAR also checked the referee\u2019s call of yellow card to Collins – and deemed that Mbeumo wasn\u2019t in control of the ball.”<\/p>\n

However, a community note – an aspect of the social media website that was integrated to deny falsehoods being spread widely – seemingly rubbished the notion that Collins avoided red as it was deemed that the United man “wasn’t in control of the ball”.<\/p>\n

Premium users of the platform are able to add community notes where they can prove that the initial point is incorrect.<\/p>\n

Citing the International Football Association Board (IFAB) laws of the game<\/a>, a rebuttal was put forward which read: “Control of the ball is not required for a red card.<\/p>\n

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“For DOGSO (denial of a goalscoring opportunity), referees consider distance to goal, direction of play, likelihood of keeping\/gaining the ball, and defenders’ positions. It’s about likelihood, not current control.”<\/p>\n

In the IFAB laws, it states: “Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off.”<\/p>\n

In the context of the game, Collins remained on the field when the red card would have given United a lift.<\/p>\n

While there is no guarantee that Fernandes would have dispatched the penalty anyway, it could well have aided their response to the 2-1 scoreline – which eventually became three when Mathias Jensen rounded off proceedings in the fifth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Amorim addressed the incident post-match but was keen not to be distracted from the result.<\/p>\n

“The referee told me that Bryan was not in control of the ball,” Amorim said via the BBC Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You [the media] can say what happened. I don’t want to talk about the referee.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United were involved in VAR controversy during their defeat to Brentford as Nathan Collins avoided a red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,423,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-457517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-united-fc","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115281152547326789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}