Burnley may have registered their first point of the season with this draw at Nottingham Forest to avoid the ignominy of a fourth straight league defeat but they will feel aggrieved at not claiming victory after Lyle Foster’s second-half goal was controversially ruled out after a VAR review. To compound things Foster was sent off via the video screen in stoppage time for elbowing Ryan Yates.
The Burnley substitute Sander Berge was deemed to have used his forearm to control the ball before Foster converted his cutback from the edge of the six-yard box. The ball bounced off the top of Berge’s left arm as he kept Scott McKenna at bay but, tellingly, the Forest defender made no complaint to the referee, Robert Jones, as Foster wheeled away in celebration.
Written by Ben Fisher at the City Ground
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/18/nottingham-forest-burnley-premier-league-match-report under the title “Nottingham Forest and VAR deny Burnley win after Hudson-Odoi stunner”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
