{"id":29276,"date":"2024-04-28T06:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-damaged-english-football-pochettino-slams-var-after-aston-villa-draw\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T06:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:01:44","slug":"epl-you-damaged-english-football-pochettino-slams-var-after-aston-villa-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-damaged-english-football-pochettino-slams-var-after-aston-villa-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You damaged English football \u2013 Pochettino slams VAR after Aston Villa draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has slammed VAR following their 2-2 draw at Aston Villa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues went two goals down in the first half, but fought back in the second half to level.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Disasi thought he had headed in the winner, but VAR intervened and the goal was ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The result leaves Chelsea in 9th place with 48 points.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Pochettino said: \u201cTwo different things: the referee said it was a foul and disallowed the goal and then went to the VAR to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referee is unbelievable and it\u2019s ridiculous. It is difficult to accept these types of things; in the semi-final [FA Cup against Man City] two weeks ago it was handball and it was no penalty; the referee, he didn\u2019t check it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is painful as it has damaged English football and I think Villa players and their fans didn\u2019t understand why the goal was disallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said it was foul and if you see the challenge, what happens if we go into every single challenge like this, it is going to be a foul and we wouldn\u2019t finish the game with 11 [players].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can talk about the performance or the decision \u2013 it is damaging the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: You damaged English football \u2013 Pochettino slams VAR after Aston Villa draw<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has slammed VAR following their 2-2 draw at Aston Villa on Saturday. The Blues went two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,607,160],"tags":[180,610,201],"class_list":["post-29276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pochettino","category-sport","tag-news","tag-pochettino","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}