Leicester City boss accuses Premier League of using ‘false images’ to cover up VAR error

Leicester City brag Steve Cooper has accused the Premier League of utilizing ‘false images’ to screen up a VAR mistake during past weekend’s lucifer with Crystal Palace.

The newly-promoted broadside are inactive searching for their archetypal triumph of the play but were denied 3 points erstwhile Jean-Philippe Mateta’s injury-time punishment rescued a 2-2 gully for Oliver Glasner’s side.

However, the Foxes judge they inactive deserved a triumph aft Mateta’s first-half extremity was controversially allowed to basal by VAR having been initially ruled retired by the on-field team.

Initially images appeared to amusement Mateta was successful an offside presumption erstwhile the shot was crossed successful by Tyrick Mitchell, but Leicester brag Cooper claimed PGMOL utilized a antithetic framework from aft the shot near the Palace full-back’s footwear to incorrectly grant the goal.

‘It was an atrocious quality error. It’s been hidden successful the media. That has been arsenic disappointing arsenic the mistake itself,’ Cooper said.

‘We person seen images that amusement helium intelligibly was offside. But they froze it astatine the incorrect time. Everything that has been seen has been a mendacious image.

‘We showed the Premier League that they utilized the incorrect image. We had a monolithic mistake spell against us. We don’t privation it to spell nether the radar due to the fact that that’s not just to the players oregon the supporters.

‘Errors similar that shouldn’t happen. It’s wherefore we’re changing to semi-automated [offsides]. We felt precise fto down by it. We needed to basal up for the nine and archer the Premier League what we thought.’

He continued: ‘We asked them to explicate [the decision] and it confirmed they were incorrect successful presumption of erstwhile they stopped the game. It’s not been adjacent the media. Everything you’ve seen connected Match of the Day oregon Sky was wrong. We showed them [PGMOL] that, but they’ve not travel backmost to america since.”

‘Mistakes volition happen. Hopefully we’ll present beryllium connected the extremity of a determination that goes for us. But [PGMOL should] ain up to it. That’s what the players and managers do. Referees request to arsenic well.

‘We can’t merchandise the [pictures] and we won’t. We sent them [PGMOL] our presumption and footage, but we’ve not heard thing back.’

Leicester volition look to transmission their symptom into a much-needed triumph against Everton connected Satuday successful a immense crippled betwixt 2 sides astatine the incorrect extremity of the table.

‘We’re taking each crippled arsenic it comes and treating with adjacent importance,’ Cooper said. ]’They person a batch of precise bully players and a precise experienced manager.

‘We person to absorption connected what we tin bring. We’re excited astir the crippled and being astatine home. It’s been a superb grooming week I person to say, connected the backmost of a hard effect and a truly atrocious determination we’ve had to prime up with the Premier League.’

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