{"id":5958,"date":"2026-01-15T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:49:18","slug":"var-no-error-for-florian-wirtz-goal-for-liverpool-at-fulham-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5958","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 2-2 with Fulham 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 contacted Professional Game Match Officials 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 \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}