{"id":246236,"date":"2026-01-15T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246236\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:53:07","slug":"var-no-error-for-florian-wirtz-goal-for-liverpool-at-fulham-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246236\/","title":{"rendered":"VAR: No error for Florian Wirtz goal for Liverpool at Fulham, panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a controversial decision because images shown on television gave the impression that Wirtz was ahead of the last defender by a clear margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the KMI Panel unanimously backed Madley, saying: &#8220;The VAR intervention to award the goal was supported as correct, given the tight margin of the offside call and thicker offside lines used for these incredibly tight calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game went on to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cx208g2g98kt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-2<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a> boss Marco Silva describing Wirtz&#8217;s goal as &#8220;a clear offside&#8221; and calling for clarification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva said the club had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2y47ly55zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contacted Professional Game Match Officials<\/a> to raise a complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport understands that the discrepancy lies in the choice of frame by the broadcaster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The VAR selected the frame when Bradley first made contact with the ball, not when it left his foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The broadcaster froze the picture one frame later which gave the impression Wirtz was more obviously offside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a controversial decision because images shown on television gave the impression that Wirtz was ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-246236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}