Why VAR chose camera angle which ruled Manchester United's Alejandro Garnacho goal offside

VAR looked at several different angles before choosing the eventual image which showed Alejandro Garnacho was in an offside position for Manchester United's ruled out goal against Arsenal.

With the scores level at 1-1, Erik ten Hag thought his side had won the game when Garnacho broke through and slotted the ball under Aaron Ramsdale. However, a VAR check showed the Argentine teenager was marginally offside.

The Gunners would go on to score twice in stoppage time to break United hearts. Post-match, Ten Hag slammed the angles used by the officials to adjudge the decision.

But, according to former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher, VAR eventually came to the right call. He told Sky Sports' Ref Watch: "The decision is calibrated from a number of positions around the ground and if it is really, really tight they put the crosslines on.

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"We have come to agree now that this is what VAR is for, it is right or wrong offside - we know that. If they put the lines across and it is just offside, it is just offside.

"Once you put the lines along you see Gabriel has not tilted forward quite as much as Garnacho."

"It doesn't matter what angle they use [the technology calculates the call]," Gallagher added. "We have come to accept that and when I am asked about that call my stock answer is factually offside."

Mike Dean also agreed with the decision on Super Sunday, he added: "It's obviously very, very tight. At first glance I thought it was offside. There's one or two angles where he looks on and then off. When they put the lines up you can't fault the technology - they put the lines in the correct place, they wouldn't have put them in the wrong place.

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