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Juan Mata reacts to VAR disallowing his goal against Huddersfield Town

Toby Lambert, February 18, 2018

Juan Mata noted that he felt “silly” after his goal against Huddersfield Town was controversially chalked off by video assistant referee technology on Saturday.

The Spaniard rounded keeper Jonas Lössl and tucked home before understandably wheeling away to celebrate, only for referee Kevin Friend to declare him offside after over a minute of listening to his earpiece, the crowd, audience and players totally unaware of what was being seen.

When the images came through, the lines used to judge offside decisions were comically wonky and by no means a basis to overturn a crucial decision.

Speaking after the game, Mata seemed to be as confused as the rest of us in response to the decision.

Mata: "I thought I scored a valid goal and I celebrated. Then after the VAR decision, you look a bit silly by celebrating. You have a silly face." #MUFC

— Shamoon Hafez (@ShamoonHafez) February 17, 2018

Mata: "I don't know if my knee or my nose was offside." #MUFC

— Shamoon Hafez (@ShamoonHafez) February 17, 2018

Mata: “I celebrated but apparently the VAR showed it was offside. I don’t know, what do you think?
I don’t know but the important thing is it didn’t really matter because we won anyway.”#MUFC

— Manchester United (@MUFCScoop) February 17, 2018

The correct lines – or, in other words, actual criteria to make a decision – were eventually available to see for us and did reveal that a small part of Mata’s knee cap was just offside.

Crucially, however, these images were not available for Neil Swarbrick or Friend, the on-pitch referee with the authority, and simply couldn’t have provided grounds for a ‘clear’ or ‘obvious’ reverse decision to be made.

Thankfully the incident meant very little in the context of the game, but it serves as a reminder that VAR still has some way to go.

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