Matthew Upson stunned by major incident in West Ham United 1-1 draw v Southampton
Southampton’s goal shouldn’t have stood after Kyle Walker-Peters’ foot was “clearly” over the line in the draw with West Ham, according to Matthew Upson.
The Hammers went behind when his throw-in led to Romain Perraud’s strike deflecting past Lukasz Fabianski in the first half, but the players were furious and remonstrated to the referee immediately.
But after a VAR check allowed the goal to stand, Upson, who was speaking on the World feed commentary [14:21], was stunned the goal wasn’t ruled out after images showed the defender’s foot “clearly” over the line.
“Well VAR will certainly look because West Ham are complaining about a foot across the line on the throw, and it certainly looked like Kyle Walker-Peters’ foot was not behind the line,” he said.
“I think VAR will review it, and it will be pretty clear. This is the throw in. Look at [Walker-Peters], that left foot is clearly over the line.
“Very interesting isn’t it? Quite a clear foot over the line in terms of the throw-in.
“Kyle Walker-Peters contacted the line to allow it to go forward, but it certainly did look in real time like the foot was fully over the line.”
Shocking
It’s clear as day and the images show it, so how the match day officials haven’t ruled the goal out is completely beyond us.
Add to that the fact the referee clearly impedes Jarred Bowen in the build-up to the goal too, blocking his path, is another reason the goal should’ve been chalked off and the ball given back to the Hammers.
Ultimately we fought back well with a good performance and earned a tough draw, but it will be seen as two points dropped because of the nature of the goal conceded.
It’s another game where VAR will take centre stage and the performance of the officials will be questioned instead of the actual game being spoken about, and something has got to change sharpish.
Hopefully the rule will become clearer and will be spoken about more, but for now we have to lick our wounds and accept the point as a good one because we had to come from behind once again.