Tammy Abraham\u2019s second-half strike was chalked off after VAR Paul Tierney ruled the ball had gone out of play 19 seconds earlier, when Villa had it near their own corner flag.<\/p>\n
The official made the decision, which the Premier League said was \u201cfactual\u201d, after a check which took over three minutes, with Brentford going on to see out the victory despite playing for over 45 minutes with 10 men.<\/p>\n
Dango Ouattara scored the decisive goal in first-half stoppage time, just minutes after Kevin Schade had been sent off for kicking out at Matty Cash.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is not fair,\u201d Emery said. \u201cIf the assistant is watching it\u2026 there are a lot of actions and small circumstances which can change one goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I accept it. But for me it is not fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe referees are so, so demanding in trying to correct everything they are doing, or where they can improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me it is not fair. My explanation is it is one action after a long time. If the assistant referee did not see it, we must continue playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor VAR, it is difficult to analyse, and so tight as well. I think the problem is the VAR should not be asking in this situation. I accept it but it is not fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t say anything more about it. It is football and of course Brentford played fantastic with one player less than us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are frustrated, disappointed, as well with the referee and VAR for his decision. But maybe sometimes we can win matches like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was quite the win for Brentford, who played over 45 minutes with 10 men after Schade\u2019s ill-advised kick on Cash.<\/p>\n
But Keith Andrews\u2019 side immediately took the lead as Ouattara scored on the break and then they held firm in the second half amid a Villa onslaught.<\/p>\n
Andrews, whose side are in seventh place and enjoying an impressive campaign, said: \u201cTo say the performance was pleasing would be an understatement. It\u2019s just immense pride and what the players produced today, and the group as a whole produced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was a defensive masterclass in the second half. We asked a lot of our midfield three. We felt there were a couple of gaps opening up\u2026 defensively the desire to stop the ball going in the back of net was immense.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the VAR decision, he added: \u201cI couldn\u2019t see it live. The goal goes in and they checked it. It took about four minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they come to the right decision, especially if it goes our way, then I am in favour of it. I can understand the frustrations of fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked out. I haven\u2019t seen conclusive proof.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tammy Abraham\u2019s second-half strike was chalked off after VAR Paul Tierney ruled the ball had gone out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15134,29466,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-276349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-brentford-fc","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276349","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=276349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}