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Gabriel Martinelli was denied his first goal of the season by a contentious VAR decision during Arsenal\u2019 Premier League clash against Everton.<\/p>\n
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The Brazil international thought he had opened the scoring in the 20th minute when he latched onto Fabio Vieira\u2019s astute pass and curled the ball beyond Jordan Pickford with a laser precision finish. <\/p>\n
Martinelli\u2019s joy was short-lived, however, with VAR ruling out the goal having deemed Eddie Nketiah to have been standing in an offside precision before he had laid the ball into Vieira\u2019s path.<\/p>\n
The ball had found it\u2019s way into Nketiah\u2019s path having ricocheted, inadvertently, off the shin of Everton striker Beto who had been attempting to block a square pass from Gabriel Magalhaes.<\/p>\n
According to PGMOL, the VAR deemed Beto\u2019s touch had not been deliberate and therefore Nketiah, whose trailing leg was marginally beyond the last defender, was in an offside position.<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports presenter Kelly Cates said: \u2018Gabriel plays the ball it was deflected off Beto PGMOL are saying this is not seen as a deliberate act so the play doesn\u2019t reset so Eddie Nketiah is offside.\u2019<\/p>\n
Despite, to the letter of the law, the right decision having been arrived at, Gary Neville felt Arsenal had been hard done by.<\/p>\n
\u2018Even I\u2019m a little confused, he looked well behind,\u2019 said the former Manchester United defender.<\/p>\n
\u2018We saw one a few weeks ago where Erik ten Hag complained about not having the correct camera angle to have it in line.<\/p>\n
\u2018That one looks a bit strange, shall we say. There looks to be a little bit of guess work with the blue line, I have to say.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Sometimes you get a feeling a decision isn\u2019t right and that one [Martinelli\u2019s disallowed goal] didn\u2019t feel right.\u2019<\/p>\n