If Doku will get a penalty, what’s the distinction with Burn’s problem on Ouattara, which was not given and meant the Brentford participant was booked for a dive?

It comes again to “contact with consequence” and steerage which asks the VAR to contemplate the motivations of the attacker and the way they go to floor.

Doku went down in a method which might be anticipated for the contact, however Ouattaro threw himself theatrically to the ground. That counts in opposition to an attacker on a VAR evaluation.

We are able to have a look at a penalty Arsenal got in opposition to Leeds by the on-field referee in August when Max Dowman had his foot touched by Anton Stach.

The Premier League’s key match incidents (KMI) panel voted 3-2 that this could not have been a spot-kick, noting: “There’s slight contact made by Stach on the toe of Dowman’s foot, with the importance and influence of the contact debated by the panel. The panel felt that the referee’s name of a penalty was incorrect (however) unanimously agreed that VAR was appropriate to not intervene.”

The wording is a part of the rationale followers can’t get absolutely on board with VAR. So was the Stach determination an error? Sure, however not sufficient to be corrected.

In fundamental phrases, Ouattara and Dowman are very comparable, so the KMI panel is unlikely to really feel it was a mistake to not give the penalty on the sector.

Burn conceded a penalty later within the second half when he kicked the boot of Ouattara (you can see this on the replay) as he moved into the realm. Whereas contact was small, it was current, and it led to a second yellow card too.