Overview
- - The Key Match Incidents panel, which reported Friday, said Everton should have had a penalty against Manchester City and confirmed three further VAR mistakes for a total of 23 this season.
- - In the Everton case, all five panel members ruled Bernardo Silva’s holding on Merlin Rohl continued after the corner was taken, countering the VAR view that the contact happened before the ball was in play.
- - The panel also voted 5-0 that Bournemouth’s penalty against Crystal Palace should have been overturned and said West Ham were denied two penalties at Brentford, with one incident falling short of the VAR intervention threshold.
- - Separate reviews backed a red card for Sunderland’s Dan Ballard for hair pulling on Wolves’ Tolu Arokodare by a 4-1 vote.
- - The error count is up on this stage last season’s 17 but below 2023-24’s 30 after 35 rounds, and Everton remain the only club without a positive VAR intervention as David Moyes criticized the calls and said he raised them with referee Michael Oliver.