West Ham boss David Moyes has lambasted the VAR decision to cancel a goal scored by one of his players.
Kai Havertz gave Chelsea what turned out to be a late lead. Still, West Ham immediately went down the other end in stoppage time, and Maxwel Cornet blasted home into an empty net after goalkeeper Edouard Mendy was knocked to the ground after colliding with Jarrod Bowen.
Although the contact was minimal, VAR deemed it sufficient to overturn the goal, handing Chelsea the victory.
David Moyes described the VAR call as ‘scandalous’ and ‘rotten’, before Declan Rice took to Twitter to add: “That’s up there with one of the worst VAR decisions made since it’s come into the game. Shambles.”
“[West Ham] make you underperform, make it difficult to accelerate the game,” he said. “If you find them, it’s in spaces that are not dangerous. This is what they do. It’s hard to create half-chances, deliveries and it’s almost impossible to come back when they are ahead.
“We didn’t play with the biggest belief and self-confidence given the last results and I understand that. I was not angry with our players and I told them to keep believing and find the rhythm. It’s very hard to play a really attractive game against West Ham because they do what they do at the highest level.”
Chelsea ended the game with 69% possession but mustered up the same number of shots on target as their opponents as, once again, they failed to make their dominance count, but Tuchel insisted he was not particularly concerned.
