Recap, video highlights<\/a><\/p>\nWilson\u2019s goal was reviewed for several minutes before the referee was sent to the pitchside monitor for a deeper look. He eventually ruled a foul on David Raya and took the goal off of the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
Correctly or not, West Ham and many others were confused and there was heaping helping of situational irony given Arsenal\u2019s physical attacking corner kicks had seemingly changed how fouls were awarded in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n
Here are West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo and star Jarrod Bowen on that call and more.<\/p>\n
Nuno Espirito reaction after West Ham equalizer taken away by VAR versus Arsenal<\/p>\n
It was a heated tunnel after the game: \u201cDue to the circumstances of the game, we were all upset of course.\u201d<\/p>\n
What did you think of apparent fouls on West Ham players in addition to the Raya incident? \u201cI didn\u2019t pay attention to the replay just to not get more upset but look there\u2019s a referee, there\u2019s VAR, there\u2019s circumstances in the past that have been judged different so let\u2019s not go more further than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
A crazy twist to the title and relegation races? \u201cThat\u2019s what I said, due to the recent season, it\u2019s been happening and even the referees don\u2019t know what to call so it creates a lot of doubt and speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jarrod Bowen deeply upset by VAR denial of late West Ham goal vs Arsenal<\/p>\n
How does the ending feel? \u201cA real blow. We thought we\u2019d done so well to get back into this game, taking nothing away from a decision that will be queried about the next couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the VAR decision: \u201cListen when you\u2019re looking at a screen for five minutes, in the end you\u2019re going to find something that you were sent over there to find. Do I think it\u2019s the right decision? No, but you have to accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the frustration \u2014 where\u2019s the consistency? As a fan you\u2019re a viewer you don\u2019t want to be waiting eight minutes and then have it taken away. It\u2019s the most physical league in the world. It\u2019s why everyone loves it. In corners you have to expect contact. If you\u2019re going to give decisions like that you have to give all the holding calls in the world. We had one with Tomas Soucek getting held at Brentford that wasn\u2019t given as a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s coming out of his six-yard box, he\u2019s gotta expect some contact. Where\u2019s the line? … Take that away we\u2019ve lost the game in a game we knew we\u2019d have to be good in our shape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham\u2019s London Stadium was a jubilant place when Callum Wilson snapped home a stoppage-time equalizer against Arsenal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-576938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}