North Macedonia penalty vs England shockingly harsh – why did VAR get entangled?

NORTH MACEDONIA’S first-half penalty in opposition to England was a surprisingly harsh resolution.

I used to be astounded that VAR Michal Ocenas intervened after which Slovakia referee Filip Glova awarded a spot-kick in opposition to full-back Rico Lewis.

The teenage Manchester Metropolis debutant, who had his eyes on the ball, had his arms in a pure place as he jumped earlier than heading it away from the hosts’ Bojan Miovski.

Sure, Lewis caught Miovski with a flailing arm to the face but it surely was by no means a penalty. What on earth was Ocenas doing?

Ref Glova will need to have seen it in real-time and accurately waved play on as a result of it wasn’t even a foul.

When he went over to the pitchside monitor, Glova wanted to indicate extra psychological toughness to again his personal name however he didn’t.

To compound Lewis’ distress, he was additionally booked.

Enis Bardhi scored on the second try following the spot-kick however Macedonia ought to have had an earlier first-half penalty.

Harry Maguire introduced down Elif Elmas and I used to be stunned Ocenas didn’t suggest a assessment for Glova.

Jack Grealish had a objective dominated out for offside however why did it take three minutes to chalk it off?

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The sport ended 1-1 after a second-half personal objective from Jani Atanasov.

Followers and former gamers had been baffled with a number of the choices made in the course of the match, significantly the one to award the penalty.

England icon Gary Lineker tweeted: “It’s not important in the slightest, but that’s the most ridiculous penalty decision.”

Whereas Chelsea legend John Terry questioned: “Oh my word… How is that a penalty?”