Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday but after the match, most of the debate was surrounding the VAR decision in respect to the Trent Alexander-Arnold handball.

Man City started the match on the front foot and within the first few minutes of the match the ball seemed to hit the arm of Trent Alexander-Arnold inside the Liverpool box but VAR chose to overlook it.

And now this decision has become the talking point more so since just seconds after this incident, Fabinho scored a wonder goal for Liverpool and the home side then took control of the game.

After the match, there have been numerous debates as to why the penalty was not given despite the arm of Alexander-Arnold being in an unnatural position.

The Liverpool defender has chosen to lay the blame on Bernando Silva claiming the ball hit the Man City forward first and that he just played on.

“I think it [the ball] might have hit my arm but it hit Bernardo Silva’s first,” Alexander-Arnold said.

“You have to carry on playing, they complained but you have to keep on playing.”

Visibly the Premier League and the referees have gotten a lot of negative commentaries after this decision but the EPL have tried to mend things by coming out with a statement explaining why the VAR chose not to award the penalty after the ball hit Arnold’s arm.

The Premier League released a statement which read: “The VAR checked the penalty appeal for handball against Trent Alexander-Arnold and confirmed the on-field decision that it did not meet the considerations for a deliberate handball.”

If this was a one-off then surely everyone would have chosen to overlook this decision but ever since the start of the season, the VAR has come under constant scrutiny for making controversial decisions.

And the Trent Alexander-Arnold handball was just another one in those long list of choices which have caused even the biggest advocates of VAR to turn against it claiming that the new tech has done more harm than good.

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