Josh King: Why was Fulham midfielder’s goal against Chelsea disallowed?

Josh King from Fulham thought that his career had scored his first Premier League goal with a smart finish Against Chelsea on the Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

The 18 -year -old UK’s midfielder under the age of 19 wandered in the celebration after being given to the target, but then a video assistant referee (VAR) was challenge after the intervention.

The movement began when Fulham won the ball outside his own boxes, and three passes were behind the King Chelsea defense.

King ran into the box and shifted the ball to his right foot to remove Blues center back to Tosin Adarabiooyo from the game before he fired the low goalkeeper Robert Sanchez in the 22nd minute.

However, the referee Robert Jones was instructed to take a look at the step -by -step monitor for the foul in the accumulation of the target.

Rodrigo Muniz foul Trevoh Chalobah while trying to translate the Chelsea defender near the semi -line.

The referee announced that King’s goal was excluded for a “careless challenge”.

“After the examination, Fulham made a careless challenge, stops at the bottom of the Chelsea defender, so we do not allow the goal and we start again with Chelsea free kick. There would be no action.”

In the Premier League rule book, “careless challenge” is considered to be as a challenge or not considering when acting without a challenge or measures “.

However, not everyone accepts the decision to exclude the target.

In his statement to the BBC Radio 5 Live, “The whole purpose of VAR – and this is my frustration, we said I was probably bored of saying it – ‘open and obvious’.”

“A young young man is watching the escape and we score a goal and retreat for anything.

“If you need to be honest, you will look for a needle in a haystack with every decision.”

The match of the day Pundit Danny Murphy added: “The worst decision I’ve seen this season. This is a lack of a complete understanding of this game.

“Muniz tried to make a pleasant skill and captures Chalobah as he lowering his foot to balance herself.

“Absolutely a terrible officer. It’s something to make the referee come and look at him, but so that Rob Jones will not see the game, so that the person who understands the game is not strange, he can give it as a free kick, even if you don’t play.”

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