Ghana coach: 'VAR went for coffee' to aid 'lucky' England - ESPN

Ghana boss Carlos Queiroz joked that the video assistant referee must have gone for a coffee after saying England escaped a penalty and red card in Tuesday's goalless World Cup stalemate.

After both teams won their Group L openers, the well-drilled Black Stars sat back and frustrated England on an overcast afternoon in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

England had 79% possession, the highest by any team that failed to score in a match in the past 60 years at a FIFA World Cup.

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But Ghana were also left feeling aggrieved after a failed appeal for a late penalty for Ezri Konsa's challenge on Prince Adu.

The substitute had been hurt shortly before that in a collision with goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who was awarded a free kick rather than penalized.

Ghana coach Queiroz looked toward a FIFA official in the postmatch news conference and said: «I'm not sure VAR is still working in the World Cup. We still have VAR? It's working?

»I have some doubts about that because another penalty that they need give to Ghana, a clear penalty against England [was missed]."

U.S. official Armando Villarreal was the VAR for Tuesday's match in which Said Martinez of Honduras was the referee.

«We had our chances to the point that they're lucky. They're very lucky,» Queiroz continued. «Once again, VAR went for a coffee. It's natural, I would like to also take my coffees once in a while, but it was a clear penalty, red card.

»You have any doubts about that? You guys who saw the game have any doubts about that or is it only me that was in the game?

«At the end of the day, that's