Sunderland defeated Chelsea on Saturday afternoon. (Picture by Clive Mason/Getty Photographs)
Sunderland had a memorable win in opposition to Chelsea on Saturday at Stamford Bridge, with targets from Wilson Isidore and Kemsudine Talbi securing a 2-1 victory. However questions at the moment are being requested about whether or not the winner ought to have been allowed to face in stoppage time.
After some good protecting from Brian Brobbey, Talbi laid the ball off within the 93rd minute to offer hosts Sunderland the profitable objective, sparking violent scenes from the away supporters. Nonetheless, some argue that these celebrations wouldn’t have lasted lengthy, because the legitimacy of this objective has been questioned.
Sunderland winner ‘ought to have been omitted’ – Hackett
In accordance with Soccer Insider (through Sunderland Echo), former referee Keith Hackett claimed that VAR shouldn’t have disallowed Talbi’s objective as a result of Lutcharel Giartruida acquired in the way in which of Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez when the shot was taken.
“I do not prefer to see targets canceled for offside, however I used to be shocked that the referee was not requested to substantiate the incident on the pitchside monitor. For my part, the Sunderland participant who was in an offside place influenced the Chelsea goalkeeper and the objective ought to have been canceled.”
“The offside legislation states: ‘Impede an opponent by stopping or enabling an opponent to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s view.'” I consider the Sunderland participant standing in an offside place has an affect on Chelsea’s goalkeeper and the objective ought to be dominated out as an offside offence. ”
It might have been extraordinarily merciless for Sunderland to have the second-half objective dominated out and they are going to be grateful that the video assistant referee didn’t intervene. This meant they rose to the lofty heights of second place within the Premier League desk, forward of the likes of Man Metropolis and Liverpool.
