Brentford's goal against Arsenal was awarded after VAR forgot to draw the offside line.
Brentford's controversial tie against Arsenal prompted VAR man Lee Mason to draw the line indicating Christian's Norgaard was offside leading up to Ivan's Tony's goal. was only admitted after it became clear that the
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It took Mason three minutes to decide that Ethan Pinnock had not interfered in the game by first preventing Gabriel Magalhaes from reaching the ball, but Arteta dissented after the game.
"It's an action when you're blocked for offside," said the Arsenal manager. "You can't block when you're offside.
'Looking at the images, you have to apply certain principles in defending and you do that by sticking to the rules and suddenly you apply different rules then you have to change your principles.
'So tell us before because then you don't hold the line that high because you're always going to have an advantage if you get blocked.'
Mason then compounded that error by greenlighting Toney's header by forgetting to check whether Norgaard had strayed beyond Ben White, Arsenal's last man, before he prodded the ball into the path of Brentford's top scorer.
'Ivan puts the ball in the net and VAR Lee Mason obviously runs through the checks,' said Mail on Sunday referee expert and PGMOL representative Chris Foy, who was in the Match Centre at Stockley Park on Saturday.
'VAR was looking to see if there was an offside and whether Ethan Pinnock had blocked off Gabriel in the build-up.
'He looked at the possible foul and decided there hadn't been one and therefore referee Peter Bankes hadn't made a clear and obvious error. "But in front of goal Christian Norgaard [who headed in Tony's cross] is in an offside position.
"But the truth is that VAR didn't investigate the line enough. The line didn't go down, and that counts as human error.
"If the line had been down, offside would not have been allowed."
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