Fans fume as ‘absolute joke’ VAR takes more than TWO minutes to award Man City penalty after Aurier foul on Aguero

FANS were left fuming after it took more than two minutes for VAR to award Manchester City a penalty after Serge Aurier fouled Sergio Aguero.

The delay in the decision was not received well, causing more debate on whether the technology is good for the game.

After awarding the penalty, Ilkay Gundogan stepped up and missed with Hug Lloris saving his Spurs teammates.

There were calls for another penalty immediately after, with VAR checking a potential foul from Lloris on Raheem Sterling but nothing was given.

But again, shocking use of the system will give VAR a bad rep… it’s not VAR, it’s the way it’s used, 2 minutes of play before calling it back for a pen…

— Jamie Funnell (@Jamie_funnell8) February 2, 2020

Yet at the same time, VAR was used to give the pen, but then not used to have it retaken for Lloris being off his line, or sending Sterling off for diving. I mean, I want VAR, but when that happens in the space of 2 minutes it makes you wonder what is the point???
— Mark (@PhilaUnion2020) February 2, 2020

Imagine a goal had been scored in that two minutes it took to work out it was a penalty. Worse thing to ever happen to football. #VAR
— Dave Nash (@davenash77) February 2, 2020

Regardless of the fact that both decisions were right, how is VAR is making the game better? Over 2 minutes to for a foul to be reviewed, anything could have happened in that time and wouldnt have counted. Trust refs and accept mistakes. VAR is not making the game better.#VAR
— Wayneatron (@WPage14) February 2, 2020

VAR is a farce, what would happen if we scored during those minutes from the foul to the VAR check? The officials in Stockley Park need to be communicating to Mike Dean straight away.
— Kalan Coupar (@KSCMedia) February 2, 2020

What a joke VAR is, 2 minutes later..
— Geoff Capell (@gcapell88) February 2, 2020

The decision to award the penalty did not go down well with Jose Mourinho who sat on the bench smirking in disbelief.

Replays showed Lloris off his line when the penalty was taken but VAR never checked that for a possible retake.

After Sterling went down, it got heated between the two sets of players with Toby Alderweireld and Oleksandr Zinchenko picking up yellow cards.

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