“Officials deeming no clear impact” – Reactions from Brentford’s equaliser that looked offside | OneFootball

There has been some reactions off the back of Brentford’s equalising goal against Chelsea on Saturday night.

Most Chelsea fans have watched the goal back many times now and are adamant that there was a Brentford player offside when the long throw-in came in, and although he didn’t touch the ball, he was clearly interfering with play because he was in the way and in the vision of Reece James who might have jumped in and won the header to get it away, or at least made more of a nuisance to challenge it.

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Alejandro Garnacho has taken a lot of the blame for the goal for ‘being asleep’ when the throw comes in and really, he should have done a lot more to try and prevent the goal, I don’t think anyone can deny that.

Chelsea thought they had won the game after a late goal from Moises Caicedo was fired home. But it was just minutes after all those celebrations that Brentford went for it with an old school long throw in, and they managed to grab a share of the points.

Reactions to the goal

Facundo Buonanotte on his debut. (Photo by Harry Murphy/Getty Images)

The Daily Mail’s Chelsea reporter, Kieran Gill, posted on X last night:

‘Re Brentford’s equaliser vs Chelsea:

‘⚽️ On-field decision was that no offside occurred, officials deeming no clear impact from Dango Ouattara before Fabio Carvalho scored. VAR James Bell studied it but decided “referee’s call” should stand as was subjective and didn’t consider it a clear and obvious error, with PGMOL chief Howard Webb insisting on a high threshold for intervention.

‘📺 Will need to wait to see if incident is included in Webb’s next Match Officials Mic’d Up episode to get his view on whether right/wrong.

‘🔵 #CFC set-piece coach Bernardo Cueva was among those adamant that Ouattara interfered.’