England supporters have been left incredulous after Harry Kane was not awarded a penalty after showing to be introduced down by Dayot Upamecano.
Kane and his team-mates reacted properly to falling behind to Aurelien Tchouameni’s long-range strike – pinning the France defence again and creating a lot of openings.
The England captain had picked the ball up on the right-hand facet and received purpose facet of the France centre-back earlier than being introduced down by the Bayern Munich star.
Harry Kane was introduced down by Dayot Upamecano as England pressed for an opener
There was a brief delay as Wilton Sampaio waited to be suggested by VAR as as to whether he ought to go to the monitor to evaluate his preliminary resolution. Nevertheless, he shortly after waved play on, leaving supporters in Qatar and residential bemused by the choice.
VAR’s name could have been that contact was initiated outdoors the world – outdoors of its remit in that occasion. Nevertheless, supporters nonetheless questioned the shortage of awarding of a foul by the referee.
‘Omg England have been robbed!’ one supporter wrote.
Kane led the protests with the Brazilian referee as he questioned by his pitch-side monitor wasn’t consulted
‘England are getting robbed. What a shame,’ one agreed.
One other angrily wrote: ‘How the f*** is that not a penalty?’
‘How’s that not a penalty?! F****** shambles,’ one other wrote in settlement.
Rob Inexperienced on 5Live supplied the suggestion that it beginning outdoors the world was why VAR didn’t have one other look.
‘The one suggestion I can give you is that it wasn’t within the penalty space however Kane fell within the space, it regarded prefer it,’ he stated. ‘There is definitely contact in and across the space.’
There was a brief delay because the referee waited to be suggested by VAR on motion to take – or not
In the meantime, Lee Dixon on ITV was left shocked the referee was not despatched over to his monitor for an additional look.
‘There is a leg in there, it seems to be prefer it may simply be barely outdoors the field,’ he stated. ‘Upamencano, his leg goes in between Kane’s legs. I believe it is a foul.’
Peter Walton, adjudicating on refereeing selections for ITV at this 12 months’s World Cup, agreed with Dixon.
Earlier within the piece, England had been left questioning the Brazilian official after he didn’t award a foul to Bukayo Saka within the construct as much as Tchouameni’s early first half strike.
Saka was fouled just a few 25 seconds earlier than the sport’s opening purpose.
