Panel backs VAR call to cancel Everton penalty vs Man Utd

The Premier League’s Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel has unanimously backed the VAR call to cancel Everton’s stoppage-time penalty against Manchester United.

The comments of the KMI Panel, seen by ESPN, noted that “the contact from the defenders doesn’t match the exaggerated fall from the attacker.”

No vote was held on the specific actions of De Ligt. However, one panellist took issue in that “the referee should not have been sent to the monitor as it wasn’t a clear and obvious error due to the foot-on-foot contact by Maguire and shirt pull on Young by De Ligt which wasn’t shown to the referee.”