Ange Postecoglou was left in the dark about the VAR call that infuriated Celtic fans at Fir Park last night.
In the 59th minute Kyogo Furuhashi threaded a brilliant ball through to Jota who ran through on Liam Kelly then chipped the ball into the net. It looked a brilliant strike which seemed to confirm the points for Celtic.
A VAR call had to be made, it looked a borderline call with Jota appearing to have timed his run to perfection but after a brief review play re-started with a free kick to Motherwell.
There was a sense of puzzlement and anger among the Celtic support, when a long distance fuzzy image was used to justify the decision concerns about David Dickinson’s verdict were multiplied.
Covering the incident Football Scotland reports:
The Portuguese winger looked to have doubled Celtic’s advantage just before the hour mark but it was ruled out by VAR for offside. Jota raced onto a through ball before chipping a stunning effort over Liam Kelly as he ran off to celebrate with the travelling contingent.
But VAR official David Dickinson got involved as he instructed referee Willie Collum to disallow the goal. It looked an incredibly tight decision and Celtic fans on social media questioned whether the correct call was made.
The angles shown on the broadcast were inconclusive and led to uncertainty over the decision. In his post-match interview with the BBC, Postecoglou admitted that he hadn’t seen it back yet but he intimated that offside were the ‘perfect’ time to use VAR.
Postecoglou told the BBC: “It was a great goal, but if it’s offside then it’s offside. I have no problem with VAR, just use it when you need to. That’s the perfect example if that’s offside. I haven’t seen it but it’s a good time to use it.”
Celtic have won all four of their SPFL matches with VAR in use but other than the 3-0 win at Livingston fans are convinced that major decisions have gone against Ange Postecoglou’s side.
No way was that offside, cheating at it finest, The Masons Var strike again,
Jota was never offside davidson on VAR still cant get it right our just biased towards celtic honest its a joke now and bleating cheating from corrupt officials at hampden sfa.spfl scumbags that run it.
Same with Abada’s goal that was chalked off at Tynecastle. No lines shown and radio silence from Sportscene etc, who are as inconsistent with their views on these decisions as those making them. Funny how VAR saw a “clear and obvious” refereeing error from those replays and could judge that a guy in mid-air with his arm behind his back and facing away from play deliberately handballed a ball that was headed straight at him from no distance.
However, it has missed/ignored a blatant penalty for us in a tight game at Tynecastle and at least two red card assaults on our players. Numerous other questionable decisions have gone against us too. No doubt the list will continue to grow.
Another clear handball was also missed to deny Hearts a penalty at Ibrox last night, with the team in blue having benefitted from numerous VAR decisions (and non-decisions) since it came in.
Just shows that all the technology in the world makes no difference whatsoever, if it’s being operated by corrupt, cheating @rseholes.
Editor: Until Bankier and Nicholson grow a set this will only continue, it is asking a lot for Ange to push the non-dynamic duo into action.