{"id":2533,"date":"2026-04-30T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:48:46","slug":"arsenals-eberechi-eze-denied-penalty-at-atletico-madrid-uefa-releases-statement-to-explain-var-intervention-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal&#8217;s Eberechi Eze denied penalty at Atletico Madrid: UEFA releases statement to explain VAR intervention | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>UEFA has released a statement to explain why Arsenal had a late penalty overturned in their Champions League semi-final first leg at Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Eberechi Eze initially earned a spot-kick after going down under a challenge from Atletico defender David Hancko after 78 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite contact being made with Eze&#8217;s foot, the VAR intervened to recommend referee Danny Makkelie review the incident at his on-screen monitor.<\/p>\n<p>After watching multiple replays, Makkelie decided to rule out the penalty-kick, a decision Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta slammed as &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221;, and the game finished 1-1 ahead of the second leg next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/768x432\/skysports-eberechi-eze-hancko_7234713.jpg?20260429225044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/384x216\/skysports-eberechi-eze-hancko_7234713.jpg?20260429225044 380w, https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/768x432\/skysports-eberechi-eze-hancko_7234713.jpg?20260429225044 760w, https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/1600x900\/skysports-eberechi-eze-hancko_7234713.jpg?20260429225044 1024w, https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/2048x1152\/skysports-eberechi-eze-hancko_7234713.jpg?20260429225044 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"David Hancko challenges Eberechi Eze - but the initial penalty call was overturned\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/>\n    <\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">David Hancko challenges Eberechi Eze &#8211; but the initial penalty call was overturned<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a brief statement, UEFA explained the decision: &#8220;Atleti player, No 17, did not commit a foul on the opponent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UEFA said upon introduction of the technology that &#8220;the VAR team will check all match-changing situations but only intervene for clear and obvious mistakes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA has released a statement to explain why Arsenal had a late penalty overturned in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}