As a result of VAR missing a late handball call, Vincent Kompany was left feeling deeply wronged

Although Vincent Kompany criticized VAR for denying his team a penalty at the end of the game, he explained that Burnley’s 2-1 loss to Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium represents where both teams are in the Premier League standings.

Andoni Iraola’s team pulled off a thrilling victory, led by goals from Antoine Semenyo and Philip Billing, to give the Cherries their first victory of the year.

Following the game, Burnley manager Kompany found it difficult to evaluate his team’s performance because officiating took up most of his post-match thoughts.

According to what I could see, both of these teams are at the bottom, and they play and don’t play in ways that are consistent with a game like this.

You have to give things a go as well, and I apologize for being stuck on this one issue for so long.

For the first time in my managerial career, I kindly requested an explanation from the officials.

They seemed surprised that we would have preferred for this [handball] to go to VAR, but they were receptive to me.

“That implies that no one in VAR informed them that it merited further investigation, and upon closer inspection, it’s extremely evident.”