West Ham players complain about VAR: Worst decision since VAR was introduced! I don’t understand how they came to this decision, Soucek and co.

The West Ham players must be biting a big bullet. In the 90th minute of the game with Chelsea they begged for a draw with a goal to 2-2, only for VAR to incomprehensibly intervene and find an invisible foul. Logically, the Hammers players are extremely angry.

The game was going well for West Ham when Antonio sent the visitors into the lead in the 62nd. However, Chelsea worked hard and turned the game around with two goals in the 76th and 88th minutes.

But West Ham didn’t give up and wanted to get at least a point in the London derby. And so in the 90th minute Bowen caught James with a bad little home, and after a duel with Mendy, Cornet got to the deflected ball and headed it into the net, 2:2.

The referee conceded the goal, the Chelsea players didn’t even think to complain. But, incomprehensibly, VAR intervened, calling the referee to the screen.

Andrew Madley eventually found a foul by Bowen on Mendy and disallowed the goal. But what exactly was the West Ham midfielder supposed to do when Mendy folds under his feet like that? There was virtually nothing else he could have done, which is why blowing the whistle on a foul that the referee couldn’t even see on the face of it makes no sense.

“This is one of the worst decisions VAR has ever made since it was introduced, ” complained captain Declan Rice on Twitter.

“I can’t believe they even told the referee to go and look at the monitor. I don’t understand how they came to that decision,” the West Ham midfielder added. “It’s an outrageous decision,” coach David Moyes said.

“You leave everything on the pitch and then a decision like this comes along. It’s just not right,” tweeted first-goal scorer Antonio.

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