Arsenal regained their place at the top of the Premier League table after beating Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool 3-2 on Sunday afternoon.
The Gunners, led by Spanish manager Mikel Arteta, are off to their best start to the season since the days of former boss Arsene Wenger.
En route to challenging Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, fans will be very excited at the thought of the Londoners continuing their impressive early form in the later stages of the competition.
However, despite the jubilant scenes at the Emirates Stadium last weekend, Liverpool, who are off to one of their worst starts in years, may feel aggrieved after recent reports suggested that one of the goals Arsenal could have been disallowed had it not been for a VAR anomaly. .
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That’s according to ESPN, who claims that Bukayo Saka could have been sidelined during the build-up to Gabriel Martinelli’s first opening minute. However, due to the lack of coverage from the technology provider Hawk-Eye, the referees in charge of the VAR were unable to verify the exact position of the Englishman.
Hawk-Eye had five cameras positioned around the pitch, but luckily for the Gunners, their number seven, who received the ball from teammate Ben White, was out of focus on all of them.
The tactical camera, which is positioned around the halfway line and not used for offside decisions, shows Saka in line with the latest Liverpool defender. However, due to the long-range positioning of the tactical camera, it is impossible to see with the naked eye whether the young winger’s rear leg is forward or not.
It’s fair to say that Arsenal were given the benefit of the doubt and while there was very little that could be done about Saka’s possible offside, Gunners fans would argue that teams make their own luck and that the best team came out with the three points.
