{"id":12597,"date":"2026-01-15T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:38:52","slug":"var-no-error-for-florian-wirtz-goal-for-liverpool-at-fulham-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12597","title":{"rendered":"VAR: No error for Florian Wirtz goal for Liverpool at Fulham, panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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\">2-2<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">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\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0kezxl4z40o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a controversial decisio&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}