{"id":565633,"date":"2026-03-26T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565633\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:04:10","slug":"no-var-error-on-havertz-penalty-claim-v-everton-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565633\/","title":{"rendered":"No VAR error on Havertz penalty claim v Everton &#8211; panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Premier League&#8217;s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel has unanimously voted that Arsenal&#8217;s Kai Havertz should have been awarded a penalty on-field against Everton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was also ruled that the video assistant referee (VAR) was correct not to intervene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Germany international went down under a challenge from Michael Keane in the 24th minute of the Gunners&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cz0gjnl5ev8t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-0 win<\/a> at the Emirates on 14 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referee Andy Madley allowed play to continue with the VAR, Stuart Attwell, deciding that contact was &#8220;minimal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replays shows that the Everton defender had inadvertently stepped on Havertz&#8217;s foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The five members of the KMI Panel all felt Madley should have pointed to the spot, but there was a split 3:2 vote in support of no VAR review. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal have had no VAR errors recorded against them this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bu two missed spot-kicks for the opposition have been logged in their favour, in away games at Everton and Brighton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Premier League&#8217;s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel has unanimously voted that Arsenal&#8217;s Kai Havertz should have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-565633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}